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[–] 23 points 8 months ago (11 children)

There's a few things that don't add up in your recollection of events.

You are being lied to, not necessarily directly by your mother.

If that's if going to be a problem to deal with you might want to consider dropping the whole thing.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    It's not necessarily a problem per se, I just don't see why a doctor would lie to their patient, especially a pregnant woman

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This whole thing is in violation of Rule 3.

    But if you really want the speculation of an unqualified guy on the Internet. Here be pain. You have been warned.

    Depending on the country, the era, the hospital and the prevailing mentality and procedures followed by the medical staff there, it is a possibility your twin was not viable ex utero. The doctors might have hidden it away and then spun the tale that the twin had been absorbed to save your family the anguish and pain.

    Why not let a newly-blessed family go home with their one happy, healthy child and none of the pain?

    The alternative is that your twin is was viable but was stolen away to be raised by someone else. But that sort of thing usually only happens in TV melodramas.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago

    Don't know if this would help, but this happened in the US in 2003-2004. (My mom found out she was pregnant with me and my mystery twin December of 2003 and two months later in February of 2004, I was born)

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Someone could make a lot of money stealing a baby

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's not necessarily a problem per se

    Some twins feel a strong bond with each other. Have you had any feelings your whole life that something is missing, like a part of you is missing?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Well, not really, considering I didn't even know any of this until I was 15 or 16, no, I don't necessarily feel like part of me is "missing", so to speak

    I did used to wonder what it'd be like to be a twin when I was little. But no, i don't feel like a part of me is missing

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