People Assuming You're Someone Else or Related to That Someone Else Because You Both Have a Stutter.
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People Assuming You're Someone Else or Related to That Someone Else Because You Both Have a Stutter. (on mobile so please forgive my sinful formatting) I play MTG at my LGS in Houston right across the street from a James Coney, me and my friend I met at the LGS both have a pretty bad stutter, he's about 23-24 about 5'7 140ish lbs while I'm about 6'1 and about the same weight and only 19. He also has reallllyyy short not buzz cut but like a half inch from it with dark hair and a full face GBS (ginger beard syndrome) and I'm dirty blonde with the Bjorn Vikings Season 2 hair with a more blonde than dirty blonde Abe Lincoln Beard. So now that we've set the stage that me and him look almost nothing alike besides having some form of facial hair and both being of European descent let's get into the story time that's been ongoing for a few years now on and off. We don't tend to go get food together, we normally just go as soon as we finish our 1st or 2nd match in the tournament (it's like a 2 minute walk at most) and they always ask me "the usual?" and I just nod and they give me my food, well about twice a month at this point my friend comes back and either says one of two things "they almost gave me your order again" or "they gave me your order again" they've never assumed I was him but about half the time he walks in there they assume that he is me. For the first time a couple weeks ago we walked in there at the same time, the cashier was actually like visibly baffled because she didn't think two guys who stuttered could possibly come to the same fast food place. She eventually composed herself after about 10 seconds of staring and fixing her glasses. This lady was legitimately confused. Like y'all probably hear exaggerations like this a lot on here but I ain't joking, this lady couldn't comprehend that two guys who were friends both had similar stutters. So she went on to take our orders (she did get his right this time because she finally realized we are not the same person) and after she got our orders she asked if we were related I simply said "nope, just friends." and she insisted that we must be related in some way, like cousins or uncle and nephew or distant relatives and I'm just like "he's almost completely Scottish and English while I'm 99% Irish, Welsh and Swedish (1% Indian some how, I have no idea how that got into my ancestry, dot not feather, belly dancing not rain dancing, bobs and vegane not whatever Native Americans would stereotypically say), our lineage is close but it doesn't actually overlap at all." she just could not comprehend that we were not related and refused to let it go so I wound up just saying "oh you caught us, he's both my gay lover and uncle, please tell no one." and walked away. She still hasn't messed up his meal since then lol but now all I can think about when I see him is "I am the Wee Man to your Brad Williams, the Chris Hemsworth to your Luke Hemsworth, the George Washington to your George Washington Carver, I am the dominant stutterer." Has anyone else ever had this issue or one similar? Where someone else you know or just happens to be in your area and has a stutter and people think that you are them or must be related to them?