"Three Identical Strangers" CNN documentary. Amazing. Well worth a watch.

[underpants]

I'd been meaning to watch this and finally did over the weekend.

Have you seen "Three Identical Strangers" about the triplets separated at birth?
Without giving away spoilers it takes two really weird turns. One I saw coming but not the other one. If you want a general overview I can do a SPOILERS post.
https://www.cnn.com/shows/three-identical-strangers-cnn-film

Really well done even though there are no answers at the end. Really really weird goings on.

[California_Republic]

1. It was good

I don’t want to give any spoilers but the curious reasons for their separation was interesting

[underpants]

2. Yeah

The champagne was a clue to where I thought it might be going. The one brother really nailed it with "This is some ____ Shit!"

[California_Republic]

3. I really enjoyed the part when they were first together

I really enjoyed the part when they were first together


It was like Boom they were kids again. And playing around like they were 10 years old

[kimbutgar]

4. Watched it also

I hope they get access to those research files to find the truth. How devious what was done to them.

[underpants]

6. And others

I had a serious "Rosemary's Baby" feeling when they first mentioned the champagne

[kimbutgar]

7. That was a creepy scene with the champagne

[Sneederbunk]

5. Two questions. Actually three.

1. Why no mention of birth father?
2. What was history of psychiatrist? Did he lean nature or nurture?

[underpants]

8. And another question

Unless I missed it - How was there a year difference in the two brothers going to the community/jr college.

Not sure about the father. They did, rather crudely, mention how she got pregnant. From what I took they skipped over the mom to move the story along and for kindness.

The little old lady in California's connections were pretty impressive. I literally was thinking of conspiracy theories that could be generated from that. I thought the one brother summed it up and maybe hinted a bit with his "This is some ____ shit"

[No Vested Interest]

11. Year's difference in school years could depend on birth date.

If born close to cut-off date, some parents believe in holding the child back a year, so that the child will have the advantage of being among the older in the class rather than among the younger (and sometimes smaller and less mature).
Parents of boys are more likely to do this, as some parents feel size is more important in a boy, and that boys are more likely to be less mature at a given age than girls.

[underpants]

13. Redshirting

Yes I've very aware of that. Maybe the second one failed a grade or maybe he took a year off.

They were 19 when they discovered each other so your explanation or mine would fit in there.

[No Vested Interest]

9. Apparently psychiatrist leaned nurture.

That was part of putting kids with not only different parents, but also apparently different socio-economic levels.

[Sneederbunk]

10. That would lead us cynics to believe

that the study results were suppressed because the results did not support the predisposition of the psychiatrist.

[No Vested Interest]

12. You may be correct,but I gathered that the psychiatrist/author died before

having completed the study.

[underpants]

14. It's silly to think it's all one or the other

But a lot of the indications that I took were that nature dominated at least with these subjects.

Later on we found out that it may not have just been a nature/nurture study at all but hereditary.

[BigmanPigman]

15. I read about the story a lot before I saw it and I watched it twice since

I had to get their individual names and stories straight.

Their birth father was just a one night thing/prom date. The surviving brothers pretty much stopped communicating around the mid 90s after the restaurant caused troubles and they were not as close. The making of the film sort of had them reconnect. The film didn't tell what has happened since the film was made. They were able to get a lot of the files (a lot are still hidden)that they were seeking, however there still were no conclusions so what was the point of doing this study/experiment.
I also read that the three boys purposely tried to do things in unison and appear even more similar than they really were because they, like everyone else, focused on their similarities and not their differences. If they had then perhaps things would have been slightly different, especially for the one brother.

What most of those involved think is that it is equally both nature and nurture which determines how we turn out.

[underpants]

16. I hadn't followed up on

Just finished watching it last night so I didn't want to dig in before I finished.

It makes sense that they played up the similarities. I thought it was funny that Donahue established the similarities (anecdotal really) and the woman interviewing them (forgot her name) started on that and they filled it in. Typical "insightful" media - just follow the story as it's set up.

I found the living brothers to be pretty straight forward no nonsense guys.

Now here's another question - was that the only adoption agency involved? I don't want to swear adoption agencies obviously but it might not have been the only one in at least this study. Again we got some info but really no answers because no one has gotten any answers.

[BigmanPigman]

17. This is the only adoption agency linked to this particular study.

The older woman in La Jolla who worked on it seemed somewhat disappointed that "this is the only study of its kind ever done and will be the last one ever done". She pretty much defended it which I found interesting. I wonder what she has been doing more recently to have all those connections to Obama and other important public figures that she was photographed with.

[underpants]

18. Pretty wealthy

Beachfront in La Jolla. Picasso bowls as decorations.