‘Mom, am I adopted?’: Twin sisters take genetic test only to discover they share no DNA, parents refuse to admit that one of them is adopted

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May 18, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

Siblings should always tease one another, that is pretty much the most basic rule in the siblings' rule book. One of the common ways to tease your younger siblings is by telling them they are actually adopted, and coming up with the most elaborate story for what happened with their actual birth parents, hiding their baby pictures, and sometimes even asking your parents to go along with it.

The girl in this Reddit story discovered that her life is not far from being a big adoption prank, except it isn't a prank at all. When she and her twin sister decided to take a random genetic test, the results showed that they didn't share any DNA. After making sure it wasn't just a mistake, OP (original poster), started questioning her family members about the test, but they were all uncooperative and refused to answer any of her questions, making OP believe she is, in fact, adopted.

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    "The results were clear - one of us is adopted"
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    My twin sister (18F) and I (18F) took a genetic test, and we did not share any DNA. What should my next step be, when no one in the family is telling me why?
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    My twin and I are fraternal twins. Recently, we took a genetic test for fun, because we wanted to see what we shared and the differences between us. Since we still share genes, fraternal twins are like siblings
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    genetically. My grandparents had suggested the tests and got them for us, so our parents didn't know about it. But our results made no sense. My twin's was coming up almost completely as Eastern European
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    and Western European. Which makes sense, as most of my family are Croatian, German, or Austrian. So all of that would be accurate. But mine wasn't anything like that. It was almost completely Scandinavian, with
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    some Russian and a couple of other places. Neither of which were on my twin's result, she had a very small percentage of Scandinavian but that was it. And we had no matched DNA. Which clearly seemed impossible. We were literally twins, we have to share DNA.
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    My twin said they must have mixed my sample up with someone else. We ended up contacting the company, and my twin and I took a test again. It was the same result. Both my twin and I were really confused.
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    We told our grandparents, and they just said that was interesting, and said nothing else. My twin said we should tell our parents, and see if they had ever done a genetic test, or if any of our siblings had, and
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    then we could see if somehow ours were still right. I mean, it kind of made sense I'd have Scandinavian, because I'm much taller than my mother, and quite a bit taller than my twin and I'm way better at
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    football and handball than she is. And I'm very blonde compared to the rest of my family, but I had thought it was the German. When we told our mother, they reacted almost the same way as my grandparents,
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    but she seemed annoyed. And said that they're inaccurate anyway, and our grandparents shouldn't have told us to take one. And when we asked our father, he basically said nothing.
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    I'm confused. I know my twin thinks it's just a mistake, but I don't think so. We have to share DNA, about 50%. That's how twins and siblings work. Even though we're fraternal, we should still share quite a bit of
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    DNA. But other explanations don't make sense. My mother can't have cheated on my father, because my twin and I would still share DNA. Just less, because we would have different fathers. The results
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    mean we can't share a parent, or even be related. But I don't see why my parents would adopt me if I'm not their child, when I don't think they've ever been to Scandinavia and why they'd adopt a baby that's
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    almost exactly the same age as their baby. I'm panicking. The person I'm closest with in the whole world, who I thought I even shared the womb with, might not even be related to me. My birthday might not even
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    be real. None of this makes any sense, and no one is telling me the truth. I'm also scared my twin might tell her boyfriend about it, and then people might end up knowing that I'm some kind of fraud and my family isn't my family at all.
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    Edit: I called the clinic where my mother gave birth to all of my siblings. The day of my birthday, my mother is in the records but only for one birth. Not two, not twins. I don't know if it's an error, or my mother didn't give birth to me.
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    crypto_for_bare_toes 2 days ago Have you pressed your grandparents to tell you more? Cuz it sounds like they suspected this and wanted you know. No way did they suggest those tests out of the blue. "Your grandparents shouldn't have told you to do that" says it all IMO
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    throwra6064 OP. 2 days ago Kind of, I did ask them why they suggested it, and my grandmother said that it doesn't matter. I said clearly it does if the results are right, but she just said she's doesn't know anything and to tell my mother that.
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    I don't know why they'd deliberately upset my parents with this, but I'm only assuming that they wanted me to know. But I don't know why, I think my grandmother thinks I should figure it out myself now I know, but I literally have no clue when no one will tell me anything at all.
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    distracted_x · 2 days ago Maybe it's less about upsetting your parents and more about your grandmother believing strongly that you should know the truth now that you're 18.
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    2 wildcat12321.2 days ago perhaps, and again, DNA tests shouldn't change relationships...but if that is the case, then go all the way and own up to your feelings and thoughts. Setting a trap like this then playing dumb
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    hurts everyone. Rather than making this an adult conversation where OP could have support in processing "big news", it becomes a lonely experience where there isn't trust amongst family members.
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    KMG365LA · 2 days ago It seems that your grandparents pushed you in the right route because your parents didn't want to inform you that you are adopted.
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    nick4424. 2 days ago Sit your grandparents down and tell them to start talking. They obviously know what's going on. But I guessing that you were adopted from a family friend who might've ded or didn't want to be a mother. Ask for your birth certificate. That should have your real parent's names on there.
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    throwra6064 OP. 2 days ago I didn't think about my birth certificate. I'll ask them, but if they don't give it to me, then I'm sure it shouldn't be too difficult to find.
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    graces-taylor12. 2 days ago can we talk about the fact that your mom's reaction was "annoyed"? Like, sorry Mom, didn't mean to inconvenience you with the whole existential crisis thing.
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    throwra6064 OP. 2 days ago She literally just sighed at me. And then told me I need get my nails redone, so yes, very helpful to solving the fact I literally appear to be not related to my twin sister.
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    Delilah92 2 days ago Are there baby pictures of you together? What are the earliest pictures?
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    throwra6064 OP · 2 days ago • Some, but later. When we were six months maybe. There are photos of us individually, my mother has labelled some as me and some of my twin, earlier. After we were born.
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    daisyydaisydaisy · 2 days ago In your separate newborn photos, are you and your twin ever wearing the same item/s of clothing? In the same location? Held by the same people? Your parents never took a photo of themselves together holding their newborn twins?
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    throwra6064 OP. 2 days ago Same clothes, same place. It looks like the hospital. And in the one that my mother wrote is me, my father is holding me. And the one where my mother has written is my sister, she's holding her. I can't tell us apart, so she wrote it down. And no, none of them of both of us when we were first born.
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