Who You Take After
By Amber
@AmbiePam (85604)
United States
August 4, 2023 2:05pm CST
This discussion was brought to mind by one of the discussions by @Sissy15 and I thought I’d ask you about it. Do you take after one of your parents in particular? People tell me I’m a dead ringer (no pun intended) of my late mom. They say I look like her, and have her same personality. Everyone says my sister looks like my dad, and has his outgoing personality. They are different in a lot of ways though. For instance, my sister is very dramatic, and my dad is not. Yet, her oldest daughter, who is adopted, seems to have picked up the dramatic gene even though they aren’t related by blood. If my mom could see her granddaughter give my sister the dramatics my sister gave my mom, it would delight her to no end!
My sister was a great kid and teenager, but she took the drama to new teenage heights. 
Do you take after your mom or dad? Maybe you look like one, but act like the other?
My sister was a great kid and teenager, but she took the drama to new teenage heights.
Do you take after your mom or dad? Maybe you look like one, but act like the other?32 people like this
32 responses
@dgobucks226 (34388)
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4 Aug
Yes, I take after my dad in some expressions and behavior. We both like things to be organized in a certain way or we will complain about it. An expression I copied from him is exclaiming "unbelievable" when something outrageous happens. I was influenced by my dad to take up golf and enjoy watching horse racing which he also enjoyed. Physically I have the same build and height, eye color and facial features.
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@Marilynda1225 (79803)
• United States
4 Aug
I have my dad's sense of humor but I don't look like him.its funny when you say that certain traits or characteristics are inherited.
My oldest daughter's son has many of my son (his uncle) mannerisms.
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@dgobucks226 (34388)
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7 Aug
@Marilynda1225 It's strange, but I never noticed that I picked up on those manerisms until I became much older.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
4 Aug
Genetics always amaze me. I look just like my mom who looks just like her mom. I also act a lot like my mom but I am not as gullible or naive. I have a more modern way of thinking than she does. What amuses me is my son who has been around his dad his whole life barely takes after his dad in behavior with a few exceptions here and there but my husband's oldest son who wasn't raised by my husband looks and acts just like my husband. I always wonder how much is nature vs nurture. How is it a child who spent his entire life around his father can act so little like him while a son who spent very little time around their father is almost exactly like their father in almost every way? How is it that a child is made up of DNA from both parents but can look and act a lot more like one than the other?
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
4 Aug
@AmbiePam He is mechanically inclined like my husband, and a lot of his son's life reflects my husband's when my husband was younger. They both lacked a lot of friends, neither graduated high school, both got into some trouble, and both had anger issues. Now they both seem to be on the path to better their lives. My husband went back and got his diploma, he holds down two jobs, and he has worked hard to get to a better place. His son is trying to get his diploma or GED and has been working towards bettering his life.
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@much2say (53954)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Aug
If I'm with my mom, people say I look just like her.
If I'm with my dad, people say I look just like him.
But as far as personalities go, my parents were complete opposites, yet somehow I picked up both sides.
My mom is quiet, sweet, and takes things to heart.
My dad was brutally honest, stubborn, a rebel.
But as far as personalities go, my parents were complete opposites, yet somehow I picked up both sides.
My mom is quiet, sweet, and takes things to heart.
My dad was brutally honest, stubborn, a rebel.5 people like this
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
4 Aug
I look like my mother but have my fathers personality
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@Juliaacv (48423)
• Canada
4 Aug
I have always been told that I resemble and have many of my Dad's attributes.
That was always a mystery me as a very young child, I used to wonder how a little girl like me could possibly look like a big tall man like my Dad was. Kids are funny that way.
I can see how I look like him, I parented like he did also and I am very independent as he was also.
He was my most favorite human being, he understood me without me having to really say anything.
He was such a great person.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
4 Aug
I look like dad's side of the family and I talk a lot, just like him. But people used to tell me that my personality is more like my mom's.
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@AmbiePam (85604)
• United States
4 Aug
@DaddyEvil I’m sorry if you miss him, but you might not?
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
4 Aug
@AmbiePam Nope, I can tell you that isn't the way it works. My maternal grandfather was quiet and studious but couldn't stop working even long after he "retired". He kept telling people he was bored with the things other retired people did. My youngest brother looked just like him and was quiet but was really, really, really lazy and wouldn't even feed himself if he could talk someone else into poking the food into his mouth. (My maternal grandfather also lived to be 106 but my youngest brother passed away two years ago at 56.)
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@xstitcher (30335)
• Petaluma, California
28 Dec
There was a baby photo of me coupled with a baby photo of my Dad given to my stepgrandmother (who didn't meet my Dad until he was four or five years old). She thought both pictures were of me.
I've been told, when standing next to her, that I looked like my mother.
There was a photo in the house of my Mom's dad (who passed when she was 13) at age five or six, that looked like someone stuck my brother's head on someone wearing early 1900's kid clothing.
When I used to answer the phone when my Dad was calling and said, "Hello?" he'd say, "Hi, dear." --thinking it was my Mom. Me: "Hi, Dad." Him: "Oh, hi, Stace."
As for my brother, even though he looks like our Mom's dad, now that he's older, I see a whole lot of our Dad in him (especially when he grows a beard!). There's a bit of both my parents in my brother and I, I guess.
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@AmbiePam (85604)
• United States
28 Dec
@xstitcher If my dad had had sons, they’d be suffering the same fate!
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@xstitcher (30335)
• Petaluma, California
28 Dec
@AmbiePam My brother has the same "male pattern baldness" that Dad had, too--glad I don't have that!
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@Tampa_girl7 (49055)
• United States
5 Aug
Personality wise I think I’m more like my daddy. Everyone said that I looked like my mama. I do have similar hair coloring. Hers was jet black though. I didn't see a big resemblance. I think I am a mixer of both.
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@RasmaSandra (73538)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 Aug
I have always been a daddy's girl through and through. I even started wearing glasses at the time he did when he was at school. The only thin I inherited from my grandma my mom's mom was my fear of heights,
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@1creekgirl (40562)
• United States
5 Aug
I look like my daddy's side and mostly have his personality. I hope I didn't inherit any part of my mother.
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@Deepizzaguy (94657)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
4 Aug
I am more like my late mom since I got to know her from my than late dad who was busy working and he did quality time with his family who had a very witty sense of humor.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (82030)
• Rupert, Idaho
7 Aug
I don't know that I really look like my mom, and my "dad" has never been in my life so I can't say. I always wondered if I was adopted or something (but I wasn't lol)
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@MommyOfEli2013 (82030)
• Rupert, Idaho
7 Aug
@AmbiePam Well that is good that you do look like her then!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
5 Aug
Because I never met my biological father I have a lot of similarities with mom. I am turning into a homesteader of sorts. Raising chickens and collecting their eggs is fun.
I don't have many of her traits though so I wonder if they came from my dad.
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@moffittjc (118497)
• Gainesville, Florida
5 Aug
I take after my dad 100%. In both looks and in mannerisms. My dad passed away back in 2016, and still to this day everyone says I am a splitting image of him. Of course, he was very handsome all the way up to the end!
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@Treborika (17286)
• Mombasa, Kenya
11 Aug
For me I took after my mom in almost every aspect of her
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