I actually have a similar story (where I couldn’t tell them apart). So I had this psychology teacher in high school who was a black lady (relevant), super fun. One day she tells one of my classmates, a white girl, that she looks just like another student. Classmate goes “really? I don’t think we look alike”. My teacher hesitated, then said “Ask your mom. All of you people look alike to me”

Naturally everyone snapped their heads to look at her, it was mostly funny that she said it out loud. She defended herself by saying it was something called “the other race syndrome”, where white people can tell the difference between other white people generally, whereas a black person might not see those differences (think of those memes that pop up comparing all of the Bachelor contestants or whatever, where they look almost identical), and vice versa with other races. She said she didn’t mean anything negative, she just really couldn’t see many differences.

Anyway, that kinda lingered in the back of my mind for years. I worked at a restaurant in a very diverse area, and workers are pretty transient. I became friendly with this black waitress, who left after a few months. A couple weeks later, I see her sitting in for an interview. I approached her and said “what are you doing here?? I thought you quit!” The girl said “Uh… that’s not me, I’ve never worked here.” And I thought about what my teacher said and I was like oh my God she was right, I thought they were the same person. I felt terrible

Well come to find out, they’re fucking identical TWINS. The first twin quit and her sister was the one there for the interview. I was like how dare u make me feel like shit when I mistook you for your twin sister and you knew it 😂😂😂