Conjoined twins Carmen and Lupita Andrade, 23, get asked a lot of very blunt questions.
The sisters, who live in Connecticut, got so tired of being asked the same questions that they launched their own shared social media account with an FAQ video pinned to the top.
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In it, they said they often got asked very personal questions about sex, death and relationships, to name just a few things.
“If one of us is tired, we both don’t have to be tired because we have two separate brains,” Carmen said.
“Yes, one of us can be awake and one of us can be asleep because, again, different brains.
“We are two separate people.”
The pair, who are connected at the torso, share the same bloodstream and all organs below the waist.
“We share a bloodstream, so eventually sepsis will kick in and obviously within hours or days the other one will die,” Carmen said about a question on what would happen if one of them died.
“But we’re not dead, so why always ask us that?”
Carmen also explained that she and Lupita share a reproductive system.
“So you do the math of your weird inappropriate questions about sex,” she said.
On that note, Carmen is dating a man named Daniel, whom she met on the dating app Hinge in 2020.
She clarified that Daniel dates only her — not her and Lupita.
“We can’t have kids, we don’t want kids and my partner feels the same way,” she said.
“I never tried to hide the fact that I’m a conjoined twin, which meant I got a lot of messages from guys with fetishes,” Carmen told TODAY.com in 2023.
“I knew right off the bat that Daniel was different from the others because he didn’t lead with a question about my condition.
“I have social anxiety, and I’ve ended up cancelling dates at the last minute, but I felt calm on the way there.”
Carmen said that Daniel and Lupita, who identifies as asexual, were good friends.
“It’s funny because I stay up later than Lupita, but when Daniel’s sleeps over, I fall asleep quickly — and he stays up talking with her,” she said.
Carmen also said that if they were to drink alcohol or smoke marijuana, for example, they would both experience the effects.
But they get full from eating at different rates because they have two separate stomachs.
They also have their own identification cards and social security numbers because despite sharing a body, they are two different people.
So, do they ever get sick of each other?
“Sometimes at the end of the day, we’re just exhausted, and we don’t want to talk,” Carmen told TODAY.com.
“That’s when we’ll go on different devices and do our own thing.
“I have my laptop to do schoolwork, and Lupita will put on headphones and listen to music or go on her phone.
“We’ve been conjoined our whole life, so it’s not like we miss our independence.
“It’s all we’ve ever known, right?”
Carmen and Lupita share some similarities with fellow American conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel.
The latter twins made headlines recently when it emerged that Abby had married a US army veteran, Josh Bowling, in 2021.
The conjoined twins, who once had their own reality TV show, are now 34 and teach at a school in Minnesota.
When it was revealed that Abby had married, she received some negative criticism from online trolls.
That prompted her to hit back on social media, posting a clip of her and Josh on their wedding day with the voiceover: “This is a message to all the haters out there, if you don’t like what I do, but watch everything I’m doing, you’re still a fan.”