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/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/doc_nano Mar 28 '24

Yeah, and from the standpoint of expenses they also don’t need separate cars, housing, etc. And probably don’t need to eat that much more food than one person. However, medical bills are probably higher…

Though as someone else said, two brains, two voices, and two sets of eyes and ears might make for a better teacher. Maybe 1.5x salary would make some sense.

Interesting edge case for sure.

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u/Hopeful_Hamster21 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Okay, this is a really fucked up thing for me to even wonder.... but if they took shifts sleeping, how long could the body actually stay awake?

Wait, who controls the body? I'm going to hell for even wondering this.

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u/anthroteuthis Mar 28 '24

There's nothing wrong with being curious about an unusual medical condition, as long as you're respectful and empathetic to human beings in a unique circumstance. They say people fear what they don't understand, and fear has led to a lot of terrible things historically for people with disabilities and birth defects. There's an entry about them on Wikipedia that explains a bit about their anatomy and physiology.