Today, I found out my parents only got pregnant with me because they were desperate for a bone marrow match for my brother, who ended up dying before I was born, and who I had no idea existed. What’s even more messed up is that they gave me his name. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today with a DNA test, I found out that my husband is my half brother. 30 years ago his father made a donation to the sperm bank my mother used, and I’m the result. To make matters worse, I’m pregnant. FML
Today, I’ve suffered my whole life with a bunch of genetic conditions and I found out why at my dad's funeral. A bunch of relatives from America attended and one of them secretly told me my parents emigrated to England under a cloud of shame because they were brother and sister. I’m inbred. FML
Today, I found out the truth about my and my siblings adoptions and why I have no contact with any extended family. Turns out our parents are half-siblings, who decided to adopt rather than risk any genetic anomalies. Their families didn’t approve of the relationship so they moved us far away. FML
Today, I found out my parents only had me in an attempt to fix their relationship. It didn't work. FML
Today, I found out that I was adopted. I'm 46 years old with 11 real siblings and no one bothered to tell me until I found the documents in my dead adoptive father's house. FML
Today, I found out that my dad and mom, who just passed away, were never married and that my siblings and I weren't actually his. Now there's the very real possibility that we could be taken away. I'll die if that happens. FML
Today, I found out my husband isn’t the biological father of our daughter when we consulted about the bone marrow transplant formula she needs for her leukemia. I don’t know who the real father is because I had a drunken one-night stand at a friend’s birthday party. My marriage and daughter’s life is in shambles. FML
Today, I met my biological parents for the first time. Their justification for giving me up for adoption was that I wasn't conceived at the ideal time for them. Apparently, the ideal time was six months after the adoption, when they conceived the first of my two brothers. FML
Today, I found out via Facebook that my older sister just had another baby, a whole week ago, whose name is my middle name. No one told me. I didn't even know she was pregnant. FML
Today, I discovered that my name literally means "burden". This wouldn't be so bad if both my mother and father knew this when they named me. FML
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Vesi 30
I'm so sorry you got treated to this information.. but take heart! Once you turn 18, for a small fee you can legally change your name to anything you want. If they don't like it, tough noogies. They should not have given you your dead sibling's name. If they still try to use it, ignore them until they use your new name.. gods.. that's an entirely new version of "dead-naming" someone!
Wadlaen 24
I'm very sorry for your situation, and I'm not even able to imagine how it would be to find out and end up where you are, and I can only hope that things in some way will work out for you!
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Vesi 30
I'm so sorry you got treated to this information.. but take heart! Once you turn 18, for a small fee you can legally change your name to anything you want. If they don't like it, tough noogies. They should not have given you your dead sibling's name. If they still try to use it, ignore them until they use your new name.. gods.. that's an entirely new version of "dead-naming" someone!
Wadlaen 24
I'm very sorry for your situation, and I'm not even able to imagine how it would be to find out and end up where you are, and I can only hope that things in some way will work out for you!
sirrubberduckie 37
Are they big Jodi Picoult fans? Yikes.
Rake 18
What am I missing? How can having a child can help with getting e a bone marrow that matches? You can't tell if the kid will be born with a matching DNA, and you can't take bone marrow from newly born
Thomas Swain 11
Wait are you a firefighter named Buck with a best friend named Eddie? I'm pretty sure Maddie helped you work this out with your parents in season 3 of 9-1-1