A worried grandma saw that her middle granddaughter looked different from her other grandchildren as she grew up. She bought a DNA test kit for her granddaughter, and the results shocked her.
Because her grandkids lived on the other side of the country, the grandmother never really got to see them grow up. Lindsey, her middle granddaughter, was already six months old when she met her grandmother for the first time.
She had noticed over the years that Lindsey didn’t look like her brothers. Lindsey’s curly blonde hair made her feel different because everyone else had dark hair.
Why did her granddaughter look different from her siblings?
The worried grandma posted her story on Reddit to find out if it was the right thing to do to help her granddaughter learn about her family history. At first, she thought that their family genes were just stronger than she thought. She loved her granddaughter no matter what, though.
The woman found out one day that Lindsey’s folks had told her she couldn’t take an ancestry test. The woman told her son and daughter-in-law they were wrong and that the girl should know the truth about her birth.
In the end, her son and daughter-in-law said there was nothing strange about Lindsey’s birth. The woman was told to leave, and that was the end of the story.
They were shocked when the DNA test results showed that her family tree didn’t seem to be quite right.
But now that Lindsey is in high school, she still has a lot of questions about how she was born. If she told her biology teacher that she had traits that neither her brothers nor her parents had, the teacher thought it was strange.
How did the DNA test find the secret?
Lindsey was upset and ran to her grandma to ask her to buy a DNA test. She bought the test for her niece without telling her children because she was worried about her.
She did everything and took the DNA test after her grandma gave it to her. They were shocked when the DNA test results showed that her family tree didn’t seem to be quite right.
The results showed that Lindsey, her brothers, and she did not all share a mother. The grandma said, “My son got someone else pregnant, and her real mother gave her up.”
The news was terrible for the whole family. The woman’s son and daughter-in-law were very angry, and Lindsey was also very angry at her parents for being lied to for fifteen years.
The woman’s kids won’t talk to her, which makes Lindsey even more angry. As much as the grandmother meant well, she now wonders if she was wrong to start this storm.
The woman was told on Reddit that she didn’t do anything wrong. They thought her son and daughter-in-law were to blame.
One person said, “There are medical reasons a person might need to know what their genetics are or are not, and she would have found out some other way if you hadn’t helped her.”
“I was sure she would find out in three years anyway.” Someone else said, “At least she knows that someone in her family cares more about her mental health and well-being than their own.”
It is important to know your genetics for real, life-or-death reasons. Lindsey has every right to know the truth. One person said, “This goes against her parents’ wish to act like everything is fine and dandy.”
A lot of people agree that the parents should have been the ones getting in trouble for hiding something so important, not the grandma. They thought the girl should know about her family history, and her grandmother helped her find out the truth.
Do you believe the grandmother made a mistake when she bought the DNA test? When you were in her shoes, what would you have done?
