What’s weirder is a similar scenario will sometimes happen at work. Co-worker A will make an observation, to which I’ll respond with something that can’t possibly be true. Co-worker B laughs out loud, and then co-worker A proceeds to correct me. I make another statement more outlandish than the last, which causes co-worker A to correct me again.

Eventually I say, “That was a joke, it’s supposed to be funny” to which co-worker A (sometimes) responds, “I know it was a joke, I was just playing along.” At this point the canned laughter would erupt, if only we were a sit-com in prime time. (Soon after we would be cancelled, and we would be at a loss to explain why.)

I can only assume that some people think identical twins are twins who look almost exactly alike, no matter the physical sex.

A young woman turned to me with a scowl and, evidently not getting the humor, proceeded to explain that they couldn’t be identical, because one was male and the other was female.

I then explained that some twins are identical, and some twins come in boy/girl pairs, therefore “demonstrating” that the speaker and his sister could still be identical twins.

She then proceeded to correct me, and we went back and forth “correcting” each other for a while.

It’s funny how people can be so adamant about correcting you when they don’t realize you’ve just made a joke.

I’m assuming that you’re talking about the Reimer twins. They raised David as a boy from birth until almost two years of age. Later, all of the adults would freak out whenever behaviors that he’d been taught him during those first two years resurfaced after he was being raised as a girl.

And Brian also committed suicide. Two years before David did.

Pedantic response is pedantic. Sorry about that.