Do you take after anyone?

Your granny was missing the point. You can be yourself while still taking after someone else.
I've begun to notice that my personality is becoming (or has already become) very similar to that of my Da. I probably have a few of my Ma's traits too of course.

I bear a striking similarity to the milkman.

I'm like my late Dad in every way. Even though I'm female, the older I get the more I look like him. Sometimes so much so that I'll catch sight of my face in a window or mirror, and get a start. I have his mannerisms, eg sitting with my arms folded, or letting out a string of tuts when someone is telling me something bad that happened. I have his square hands in a smaller version. Like him, I've always had an avid interest in true crime. I also have his laugh, and laugh at inappropriate stuff, as he did. When he was sick in hospital, he told me we were like two peas in a pod

Anxiety from my grandmother and dad.

Grandmother - specifically panic attacks in similar situations / similar reactions to certain types of people / places / situations

Dad - Can be really loud and full of chat in situations / with people we feel comfortable.
Then completely avoid situations that make us feel uncomfortable, don't know what to say to arrogant assholes because we inwardly loathe them.


Apart from that which I suppose could be called hereditary mental health issues, I'm like no-one else in my family at all. In fact I think they find me different. I'm intelligent which causes me to research things or read in situations much more than others do and they think it's strange that I do that. I take nothing at face value, and they see no reason to question things, when I think it's strange that people don't question things.

Much as I almost hate to admit it, as I always promised myself I'd never be anything like them, I definitely took after my parents - I'm the spit of my old man, have inherited his health problems too, right down to the fact that when I was going for a hip operation, the nurse thought I was my old man because our medical records were identical apart from our date of birth!

I inherited my passion for education from my mother, it's about all we have in common to talk about these days. I think I was definitely influenced though by my neighbour who I like to credit for taking the edge off the hard nut personality I inherited off my parents. My granny though on my fathers side was a hoot, I never figured out how she was my fathers mother when they were the complete opposite of each other! My uncle told me once though "Your father was a briar too!". I didn't know what he meant at the time. I do now - stubborn arsehole! :pac:

I look a lot like my dad's mother, apparently. She died very young, when my aunt was just a baby.

So my aunt never knew her mother, has no memories of ever seeing her face. I always wonder whether it's strange for her to hear comments about how much I look like her. Whether she ever tries to see her mother in me.

The only physical trait from my mother was her curly hair and colour of my eyes.
I look very much like my father and am just as emtionally detached and screwed up as him.
Thing is I am aware of it so can slowly work on it.
My father would do almost anything for us but he has always been emtionally detached and hard to talk to.
He likes cameras and photos. I also like art and photography so we have a common ground.
My mother can bake (like wedding cakes proffesionally) but not a bone in me can bake or cook ha

One of the girls from bewitched fights like her da..... Apparently

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

It depends on who you ask....I would have my Dad's dark colouring (sallow skin, brown eyes and hair) but some would say my features are my Mum's.

I'm also told I resemble my granny (Mum's mum) when she was young....which is extremely flattering as everyone also talks about how pretty she was!

Your granny wasn't actually Audrey Hepburn by any chance?

I look exactly like my da. My gf showed a photo taken of my da when he was about 20 to her mother a while back and the mother said "I've never seen HalloweenJack with a beard before". The photo was obivously taken in the early 80s.

Personality wise, I'm a lot like my mother and others on her side of the family, very calm, introverted, independent, happy to be alone with my thoughts and don't feel the need to be the centre of attention. I am a lot like my granda too in that I don't take things too seriously and love being silly with people I'm comfortable with.

I have inherited a few mannerisms and traits from my dad, which makes me go with nature as the winner in the "nature vs. nurture" debate as my parents seperated when I was 1.