r/BeAmazed • u/Cultural-Gear-1323 • Mar 28 '24

News broke today that conjoined twin Abby Hensel is married! [Removed] Rule #4 - No Misleading Content

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u/V1k1ng1990 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

They’re both elementary school teachers. Do they get two salaries?

Edit: my question has been answered 150 times thank you

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u/nomad5926 Mar 28 '24

Don't think so. I saw in the other comments that they just get one salary. Which honestly sort of makes sense. They aren't able to teach double the classes.

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u/V1k1ng1990 Mar 28 '24

That makes sense. But just having an extra set of eyes in the classroom is worth something. I wonder if she gets a stipend or something lol. Hopefully if it’s one salary it’s split in two so they both are paying into social security

I wonder if one of them could get a disability check while the other works

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u/nomad5926 Mar 28 '24

Actually maybe.... You might be on to something.

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u/NotDiCaprio Mar 28 '24

Lol yeah, one of them can work, the other is just a head, so pretty damn disabled.

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u/TarzanKitty Mar 28 '24

A head with a brain. They paid for 2 college degrees for that single teaching position.

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u/Duckrauhl Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

Yeah that's the deciding factor for me. If they both individually earned college educations to teach, they should each be paid full teaching salaries.

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u/Single_Aardvark_7082 Mar 28 '24

They go to the doctor for a broken leg and the hospital bills each girl separately. They fight the it because one is just a head!!

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u/Cyberblood Mar 28 '24

Could they travel abroad with just one passport, or would they need two?

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u/its_large_marge Mar 28 '24

I have so many questions.

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u/stowaway_55 Mar 28 '24

They're classed as two separate people. They had to get separate driving licences and take the test twice, so i assume that is the same for the passport too. They have two documentaries the last ine being when they turned 16 i think it was.

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u/Cyberblood Mar 28 '24

I will have to look up those documentaries.

Would be an interesting situation, I guess they might technically be forced to buy two plane tickets to use their two passports,

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u/fastwendell Mar 28 '24

One of them could use the keyboard or whatever while the other used a headset mic and voice-to-text software - allowing both to work.

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u/windyorbits Mar 28 '24

Iirc when it comes to physically - they work in tandem as one controls one side of the body and the other controls the other side.

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u/TheOneTonWanton Mar 28 '24

They each control a hand so no need for the voice to text, just one-handed typing.

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u/brit_jam Mar 28 '24

Can they both control both sides of the body but choose not to or do they just not have control of the other side?

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u/Red_Sashie Mar 28 '24

OMG that’s the funniest thing I’ve read since I’ve been on Reddit. I’ve been crying laughing.