Make contact, get medical history, and dip out.
I really wouldn’t give a shit.
My biological parents were both worthless parents.
The guy who raised me wasn’t my biological father.
I adopted my son.
The only “issue” with not knowing your biological parents is the lack of family medical history, but that really is not big deal.
Knowing the medical history of you biological family is absolutely a big deal. A lot of risk factors that you might not be screening for early or frequently enough without knowing the history.
In no way does your family history replace the need for those screenings. Just because there is no history of Colon Cancer doesn’t mean you don’t need to get you colon checked out.
Your family’s history is just an indicator and can be addressed by many other means.
With certain family history they start screening earlier and can catch things at earlier stages both of which equate to better outcomes.
Genetic sequencing is a near replacement nowadays but generally is not covered and can cost a few hundred.
The frequency of recommended screenings can change based on family history. A heart scan and arterial ultrasound may not be recommended if you have no family history of heart disease and you have no indicators for it yourself. And with our shit health insurance industry you may not be able to get certain screenings paid for if your doctor isn’t able to convince of their necessity, which having family history can help them do.
I guess for inheritance reasons, it would make sense to correct my birth certificate to my biological parents. In that sense, I would feel happy, because I’d have a massive inheritance coming my way at some point. Other than that though, it wouldn’t make any difference to me, I’d still feel like the parents I grew up with were the “real” ones.
Is that even how inheritance works? Wouldn’t they almost certainly have a will that doesn’t mention you?
How inheritance works depends on the country. In my country (Germany), there is a mandatory portion of your wealth that each child will get as inheritance, no matter what the will says. Fully disinheriting your own children is only possible under some very narrow circumstances, such as the child being convicted with a felony serving more than a year of prison time.
Is that even how inheritance works?
Depends on the laws of your country.
Grunt “Typical” and go about my life because the universe won’t allow anything good to happen to me
First, obviously, I would treat the people that raised me as my parents.
Second, I would try to make contact with them. If they go for it, maybe it’ll be a nice family story. If not, I’ll see what I can do in terms of legally extorting them for money, because ultra-wealthy shouldn’t exist and I barely get by, and I won’t really feel bad about that.
If I get a lot of money by either means (more than I need to buy a house and cover the basics), I would share with charities and people.
Live a luxurious lifestyle and say fuck you to the ones who raised me.
If they want to meet, I’d be willing to do that. If that goes well, maybe we can have some sort of relationship, but who they are matters more than how much they have.
I would hang w my non-blood-bro
I don’t think I would initiate contact with my biological parents in this hypothetical situation regardless of their financial status, but I would be willing to meet with them if they requested it first. I can’t miss what I never had and I don’t want to possibly disrupt their lives because of my own curiosity. Nor do I feel entitled to their money.
Be deeply confused as I have an identical twin and we look alike. Did we both get switched? I can’t imagine that. The hospitals we were in were small, we were likely the only twins in the nicu then.
There was a situation where there were two sets of identical twins born at the same hospital at the same time, and somehow one of each got swapped. Each mismatched pair grew up thinking they had a non-identical twin and only found out about the mix-up later in life.
Maybe they wouldn’t have found out at all if both were swapped. Food for thought.
Horrifying! I do think we’re my mothers children. We look quite like her! People comment.
Maybe it’s a ruse! Maybe she has normal not silly children somewhere. Hmmm…
Would explain a few things. Get to know them. They might be cool to hang out with.
Imma be pissed at the universe. Could have had a lambo, instead im just broke. Get me on that wealthy will.
I wouldn’t feel anything, quite honestly. My parents did a pretty awesome job and I don’t really care much for money. So, I’d be okay. It’s be cool knowing I could’ve had a ton of cash but I’ve seen what people with money do in my own personal life so it wouldn’t bother me.
I don’t think I’d want to change the life I’ve had so far as the sum of my experience is how I’m the way I am. Would probably meet the people and see how things went from there.
My current parents would continue to always be my parents in that scenario I think
