Has anyone ever taken a DNA test?

I wouldn't do the DNA, I think everything happens for a reason and everything has it's place. That given no matter how ugly we were brought up, it was an experience we were meant to have and a place we were meant to be. When I was born there was a woman with the same exact name as my mom giving birth at the same time in the next room. Which is weird because my mom has a rare first name. Well the lady happened to name her daughter the same name as me... same last name and middle inital too. We never met but all my life while I lived in that town, I'd get called to the principal's office for things she would do or our medical records would get mixed up.. for some reason we had the same pedi too. Now here's the thing, both my parents are very light skinned and I'm more like a deep caramel. Oh and one more thing... so the pictures of when I was first born, I was white colored too but then after 2 weeks in the incubator I was darker than dark chocolate. The woman who was giving birth at the same time... dark skinned. All my life my mom just said "you take after your father's parents" and indeed they were darker colored however not as much as me. One time the doctor asked my mom if my father was Italian, something about my blood being really thick or something like that. We joke all the time that I was switched and sometimes I really wonder. Even though I ended up with a single mom and times were rough and continue to be, I couldn't have picked a better mom myself and I think switched or not I ended up exactly where I had to be. Life's been ugly sometimes to say the least but I feel blessed to have her in my life and to count her as one of my best friends. Besides, if I had been in the other girl's shoes instead of in mine, I would've missed out on the 2 great loves of my life and the joy and pain of experiencing love and I wouldn't have had my kitty who is just my whole world. My point? I think that families are not what we're given with DNA but what we make of them. It's not what your name is that matters but the name you make for yourself.

That is quite the interesting case. However, we have just discussed this. Are you sure that you all are identicial twins, and not furturnal twins? But in answer you your question- if when I was older, and it turned out that I was not who I once thought I was, I would probably have some kind of mental breakdown honestly. I would basically have been living a lie all my life, and then I would somehow have to correct it. Eventually, however, I am sure I will gather myself, and once again live like I once did.

If you were identical twins you would have the same blood type. Didn't the doctor do the dna at birth to test to see if you were identical? I had twins also. They had to send DNA off from both twins to lab for testing. I know this must be hard on you and the fact that you don't look like the other family members. Could there have been a baby mixup in the hospital? Will be thinking of you in whatever decision you choose. I think you are leaning towards the "I want to know" and I really don't blame you.

Hi,there! I've never done that in my life.Actually according to what you said in the discussion,I don't think you need to take one.You have been with your twin for so many years.If you love your family members and they love you too,then why is it so important that you should have the blood relationship? If you take a test and find out your twin is not your twin,I guess both of you won't feel that well.Maybe it'll give pressure to the whole family.So I think there's no need to do that as long as you guys love each other and get along well with each other:) Thanks for the discussion and have a nice day^_^

in my opinion .you don't need to take DNA test.because,if you take DNA test .there will be two results:one is you are families,but your behavior will hurt you family member. another is ,you are not their family ,then ,you will find your real parents,that would be very tired.and if you find your real parents,you would left your adopter.it bloodiness for you to do that .so the best way is not to take DNA test.let it be !cherish what you have!

My guess would be that you are fraternal twins and not identical.

I am quite happy and contented with what I have in my present life so I think I better not to have a DNA test. I scared that if I were to find out that I were not the true person that I am. If this were to happen to me the happy life must be utterly changed of place. By the way, I have learnt this from an article that the DNA test is not absolutely accurate.

No I have never taken DNA test. I look as my father and most of the naturre are as my MOM. But I understand your situation. I know how you are feeling and most probably its behind your mind that you want to take it. But then if for 49 yrs you have lived with it, leave it. Now if you find that you are not the one of the twins, it will be very painful.

Wow! Could this be like a switched at birth situation? I think I would have to look into it but at the same time...what if the DNA test showed you are not biologically in the right family. After 49 years would your mother no longer be your mother? Would your sisters not be your sisters anymore? And what about if you could find your biological family somehow? There's another adult out there who would find out that she is not who she's thoought she was for 49 years. I guess what I'm thinking there is reverse the situation in a few different ways. Imagine if a 49 year old woman called YOU and said you two had been switched at birth and your family wasn't really your family. It's a tough thing but I think you deserve to know the truth as long as you're prepared to handle the consequences.

Well, you are who you think you are. If you are not actually related to the family who brought you up, that's rough, but doesn't change the fact that you are you - just as adopted children are legally related to their parents. IF, however, you were switched in the hospital, you might want to find your biological family just to know what the medical information is about that family. So, you might want to have the test done, and maybe find your biological family for that reason alone, and maybe the woman who was also switched would like to know bio info if she wasn't aware that she was switched.

I'd be very leery of a company offering free dna testing. The tests are pretty expensive. It's not possible for identical twins to have different blood types, but it is possible for fraternal twins to have different types. It's really not possible for a doctor to be positive at a birth that twins are identical. Obviously if they're two different sexes a doctor can clearly determine that they are not but the reverse is trickier. Sometimes identical twins share a placenta, but sometimes they don't. Fraternal twins each have a placenta, but the two can fuse together during pregnancy resulting in what looks like one. So I'd guess that your mom's OB made an educated guess based on something like that, but was wrong. I'm 35, personally if my parents weren't my birth parents I wouldn't want to know now. Maybe I'd have felt differently when I was younger or if I had some medical reason to need to know who my birth parents were. My children are 19, 14, 5 and 2 months; if heaven forbid there was a switching at birth, I wouldn't want to know.

That would be a rough situation - I have never taken a test. Are you unhappy with your family? Sometimes it is nice not to know. The doctor might have been wrong about the identical thing.

Okay, if you and your twin have different blood types, then it is impossible for you to be identical. Period. I have twin daughters. When they were one day old, I asked at the hospital if I could know for sure if they were identical or fraternal. They told me that they didn't automatically test for that (this was 11 years ago). So I asked what their blood types were, and since they were different, I knew automatically that they were fraternal. They don't look that much alike, and don't act or think alike either. Out of my five children, (two husbands)two look like their Daddies, two look like me, and one (the middle one) looks just like my mother. So, it is possible that you look like a grandparent, or even a great-grandparent. Don't fret, just enjoy your siblings and your family. I wouldn't worry about DNA testing, it's expensive, and won't tell you that much about yourself to be worth it.

That's never happened to me before, but what I would do is just take that DNA test, find out who I really am. If I wasn't part of my family, I guess that I would just be like dam, I still love them. I don't think I would leave them since they took care of me. If my parents knew I wasn't part of the family then I would try to find out who my real parents are. What a crazy situation, you could still be a part of your family even if you don't look like them.

I would think the bond between twins would be so great that you would know whether you were a twin or not. Just from what I've seen from friends who were. My brothers told me I was a product of the mailman since I was so different from the rest of the family so maybe I am - but at this stage in my life I really wouldn't want to know.

i dont think it would matter as they have raised you into the person you are today... i would be a little upset dont get me wrong... if you werent related in anyway if you took the dna test it would be the hospitals fault for switching you at birth... but i would have such a great love for my parents and my family cause they raised me

That's never happened to me before, but what I would do is just take that DNA test, find out who I really am. If I wasn't part of my family, I guess that I would just be like dam, I still love them. I don't think I would leave them since they took care of me. If my parents knew I wasn't part of the family then I would try to find out who my real parents are. What a crazy situation, you could still be a part of your family even if you don't look like them.

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