Miscellaneous: Today, I found out my blood type is B. My parents are type A...

By hedgehog5 - 11/04/2009 19:14 - United States

Today, I found out my blood type is B. My parents are type A and type O. It's not genetically possible to be blood type B if your parents are A and O. This means I am either an adoptee, a mutant, or an illegitimate child. FML

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By toomuch2process - 06/12/2022 05:00 - United States

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

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By Anonymous - 13/05/2013 23:51 - United States - Quincy

Today, while doing a fun genetics game in Biology, I found out that I was adopted. Turns out the game wasn't so fun. FML

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It's actually illegal in the UK

By Anonymous - 10/08/2023 04:00

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

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By Biological - 11/02/2010 12:22 - United States

Today, I found out that I was not adopted and in fact my parents are my biological parents. How did I find out? Over dinner. How long have I been believing I was adopted? 22 years. Why did I start believing I was adopted? My siblings thought it would be a funny joke. My mom played along. FML

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By Ariella - 29/08/2011 04:06 - Singapore

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

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Desperate times call for desperate measures

By Anonymous - 05/05/2024 19:00

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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Classic TSA FML

By Anonymous - 20/03/2022 09:59

Today, out of my mom, dad, and my siblings, I was the only one selected for a “random” extra check at the airport. My parents are English and my siblings were adopted from France and Scotland, and are all white. My bio parents were Pakistani, and I'm nutbrown and I was the only “random” search. FML

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By Meghan - 05/09/2020 08:01 - United States - New York

Today, my mom told me that she had great news: we were going to meet my biological parents. I didn't know I was adopted. FML

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Family coincidence

By Anonymous - 06/11/2019 02:30

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

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By Flora - 17/04/2013 22:56 - United States - Watsonville

Today, I got ancestry DNA tests for my parents and myself. The DNA testing company informed me that I'm a 50% match for my mother but I share no DNA with my father. Apparently, both my parents forgot that they used a sperm donor. This insignificant detail has slipped their minds for 35 years. FML

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may_cause_fail 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 2:46

Rofl. Oh, genetics. :'D

luvable_loozer 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 3:03

WHOOPS!!!! Your parents have some SERIOUS explaining to do!!!!

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swerrwer 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 14:37

maybe you should just be happy you have parents...

chocolate444 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 14:58

I agree with #168

average_girl 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 15:31

ANYTHING is possible 2day.. maybe ur not the child of both ur dad and ur mom... maybe ur mom got pregnant w/ another guy the marrried ur dad...

peesemould 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 15:36

It's very possible! http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:feXNmUGUouIJ:genetics.emory.edu/pdf/factsheet43.pdf+blood+genetics&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk That will explain it. Your parents must carry AA, AO, BB or BO.

QiScorpion 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 15:51

number 162's explanation goes far beyond my knowledge of blood science ( GCSE (i'm english) Biology) so i'll go with what he's saying. but if it wasn't mentioned that either of your parents have this "bombay phenotype" then i would get them to explain!

vball6jgm 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 15:55

uhhh idk i think it is possible which is why its confusing that people are saying its not...punnitt square to the rescue A i the genotype of your parents is that( Ai, Bi) soooo their B AB Bi offspring could either be AB, A, B, or O....i think youre fine. i Ai ii

vball6jgm 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 15:57

wow i thought you were the one with type O blood.....never mind, not possible sorry:/

jessssxo 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 16:09

Wow, I'm really sorry. please give updates!

CommonTruf 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 16:12

Well, another option, which I'm not sure if anyone else thought of it: Your mother cheated on your father with a man with type B & thats your biological father. Just a thought but it'd still suck regardless.

odubz 0

Sunday 12 April 2009 16:26

If your mother and father both are the blood types they say they are, the only way that they could both be your parents is if one of them is a chimera (really, really unlikely). A chimera is a organism that basically possesses two sets of genetic code, only one of which would show up in something like a blood test. Really really unlikely though

MsMeiriona 2

Tuesday 7 June 2011 5:20

really really unlikely? I hear about genetic chimera's more and more often, in fact I've heard speculation it's probably fairly common, just not always in ways that are going to show in normal life. ( most cases I've heard about are custody cases with mothers not testing as such to their children)