I would find it more likely the hospital fucked up and you got the wrong baby from the icu. As entering/post leaving said hospital there has always been a paper trail. Records they checked in, record of baby born, and birth certificate. Also birth certificates have changed a bit here, so if you look at your original birth certificate the listed parents had social security numbers listed, when you order a replacement they do not. Guessing a lot of people were worried about family matters stealing identities or something. If I didn’t have said birth certificate, I couldn’t get a driver’s license or anything else really, so unless they faked one well enough and changed records in the hospitals, it’s a very low chance I was stolen. Now the number of men who are lied to about being the father is higher than that, and there are some rare cases of having someone else sign a birth certificate that isn’t the biological father. I have known someone who lied to her ex about how long into a pregnancy she was, and had her new partner sign the birth certificate as the father to get legal paternal rights. (Obviously a shit show when the biological father finds out).
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2 days ago
Has anyone ever doubted their parents are their parents? Most teenagers about their biological parents during puberty.
Is it possible that you were abducted after running away? Yes. Is it very likely? No. These cases are rare but get lots of news coverage.
If you’re under 40, the lack of pictures of your childhood could be conspicuous. Most parents document the progress of their kids and after the advent of digital photography there should be lots of evidence to put your mind at ease.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 days ago
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I was born in Mainland China, birth certificate would’ve been a lot easier to forge, if someone just bribed the right person.
Speaking of this topic: I remember watching a HK TV drama and one of the plot points was the villain’s backstory was because he got swapped as a baby by a midwife who got bribed for it, so dude grew up, finding about the childhood he could’ve had, so he wanted revenge and killed the midwife, when he later became an adult. There are also mainland China TV shows about some kid got lost as a kid, and was actually used to be from a wealthy family.
(These TV drama plots are wild, I know right)
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
For context, this was when I was in mainland China, they didn’t do Amber Alerts or really have a lot of new coverage. I don’t think they would go out of their way to tell the public about it, “face” culture and all, it looks bad if these things get reported often. Kidnapping allegedly happened a lot in China, because fertility issues and One Child Policy. I remember my mother warning me about it, but I can’t be certain if that was before or after that incident.
I do have childhood pictures, but I really can’t tell if its really me in the picture. It’s not like I remember what I looked like.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2 days ago
Machine learning is so good now that it can ID your face as a baby as well. Not always, but with enough pictures you’ll reach statistical certainty.
Other than that you could maybe test DNAs. On a less invasive level, if you know your blood type, you could ask your parents for theirs and see if that makes sense.