Man almost ruins Christmas by buying his entire family DNA testing kits
A Reddit user set off a family argument after buying a DNA testing stock image thebritishherald
A Reddit user has revealed that he almost ruined Christmas by buying his family DNA kits, forcing his parents to confess that his sister actually had a different father.
Posting on Today I F***ed Up, Reddit user Snorkels721, who is thought to be from the US, revealed that he bought the DNA testing kits for his mother, father, brother, and two sisters – without thinking twice about the potential consequences.
Later on, his mother admitted that she’d had his eldest sister with another man – who passed away shortly after her birth.
She then met the rest of her children’s father who helped her through the grief and they went on to have a family of their own, but she’d kept it a secret as it was too painful to speak about.
Redditors loved the story, which has been liked 142,000 times, and many went on to share their own DNA-related discoveries, with one user who claimed he worked for AncestryDNA revealing that this kind of thing ‘happens all the time’.
Snorkels721’s original post said: ‘Earlier this year, AncestryDNA had a sale on their kit. I thought it would be a great gift idea so I bought 6 of them for Christmas presents.
‘Today my family got together to exchange presents for our Christmas Eve tradition, and I gave my mom, dad, brother, and 2 sisters each a kit.
‘As soon as everyone opened their gift at the same time, my mom started freaking out. She told us how she didn’t want us taking them because they had unsafe chemicals.
‘We explained to her how there were actually no chemicals, but we could tell she was still flustered. Later she started trying to convince us that only one of us kids need to take it since we will all have the same results and to resell extra kits to save money.
‘Fast forward: Our parents have been fighting upstairs for the past hour, and we are downstairs trying to figure out who has a different dad.
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I bought everyone in my family AncestryDNA kit for Christmas. My mom started freaking. Now our parents are fighting and my dad might not be my dad.’
