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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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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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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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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Sunday 12 April 2009 2:46

Rofl. Oh, genetics. :'D

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Sunday 12 April 2009 3:03

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

Comments

AVDutch 3

Thursday 22 September 2011 14:23

Oh one more thing: You can't be a 'carrier' for bloodtype, because both alleles A and B are dominant. That means that if you have the gene for bloodtype A you will have bloodtype A, no matter what. If you have the gene for bloodtype B you will have bloodtype B. If you have both genes you will simply have bloodtype AB. If you have neither gene you will have bloodtype O. However, you cannot have bloodtype O and be a carrier for bloodtype A or B... This is called co-dominance. (All of this is not taking into account the Rhesus factor which is not really relevant at the moment). I hope this clarifies matters a bit.

AVDutch 3

Thursday 22 September 2011 14:31

Oh one final thing. I suppose you can technically look at people with for instance alleles ai or bi as 'carriers' for bloodtype O, but it doesn't fit the definition of carrier at all. Use google for the rest. And yeah, as much as I hate to say this (well, to be honest, I am slightly apathetic about it because this is, after all, the internet), the most likely explanation is that your father is not your biological father. This is by a LARGE margin the most probable of all the possibilities...

bostongirl77 5

Monday 10 October 2011 6:28

its possible that one of the three of your blood types is wrong. I gave blood in high school and they said I was A positive. Gave again the next year and said I was O positive. Nothings 100% accurate.