I mean, if, say, you got kidnapped by someone at a young age and you were too young to form memories, then you could theoretically live an entire life falsely believing your parents are your biological parents. Especially if your birth wasn’t properly documented, or from a developing country where paperwork isn’t exactly being done properly.
As to why, maybe some has fertility issues or something. Maybe their original kid died and now they are just having a weird parent complex and trying to fill the void, passing off someone’s kid as their own.
Reason why I’m having these thoughts because I remember running away from home once and its possible perhaps I got kidnapped and I’m misremembering about the part where my mom found me. Perhaps another sets of events happened and my brain just paved over it with less traumatic memories??? Like repressed memories? Idk, memory is kinda fragile, idk how much to trust memory.
I read about some of these stories and now I have paranoia lol.
(Sorry if this post is kinda bizzare, I just have depression and thoughts be spiraling)
Never occurred to me in serious thoughts but could you do a DNA test to find out?
How do I just discreetly grab a sample? Yank some hair from them while they’re asleep? Does hair even show DNA?
But yea idk about actually asking for consent for dna test, they might get offended by it.
I’m also worried about my Citizenship status.
Different methods all none invasive but check with kit first. For example getting old tooth brush or hair from brush. Could also bring it up in conversation see how they react. Like thinking ancestry test. If they panic you know something is up.