One time, a friend told TikToker Cass (@cassdamm) that she was adopted and asked for her help with finding out who her biological parents were.
Cass did some digging and uncovered her friend’s original birth records. Then, she started looking into her biological family and their family history.
Apparently, her friend’s biological parents got married when they were 18 years old. They had two kids together. When they were 28, they had her friend but chose to give her up for adoption.
Less than 11 months later, they had another baby, which they kept. A year later, they had another baby and kept it, too.
Cass presented all this information to her friend. Her friend hadn’t planned on contacting her biological family at all, but now she was curious about why she had been the only baby of theirs to be given up for adoption.
So, she reached out to her oldest biological brother, who would have been 10 years old when she was born. Her brother was confused because he remembered her as being stillborn.
She sent him her birth record, which showed that she was a live birth and was given up for adoption. He called her a scammer and blocked her.
A week later, he unblocked her and apologized. He had talked to his mom, and his mom admitted that she was born alive and gave her up for adoption.
She explained that she had only contacted him because she wanted to know why she was put up for adoption.
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“He said that his mom told him that it was because right before she was born, they started printing warning labels on alcohol bottles that said you can’t drink while you’re pregnant, and their mother had been drinking her entire pregnancy, so then she thought the baby was going to be born messed up and have problems,” said Cass.
Their mother claimed that she wasn’t equipped to take care of a baby with health conditions, so she gave up Cass’s friend for adoption, went home, and immediately started trying for a different, healthy baby.
Many TikTok users were impressed by Cass’s detective skills and even made requests for her to find their own families. Others shared their experiences with being adopted.
“I was the third born, too, and the only one given up. Some of my older siblings hate me because I was adopted and they weren’t,” commented one user.
“I wish you could solve the mystery of why my birth mom kept one kid out of six, and it wasn’t the first or last kid, just one somewhere in the middle. I’d ask her, but she blocked me,” wrote another.
“As an adoptee, it’s cool to see other people having messed-up stories. Still doesn’t beat my biological mother being the reason a California state law was made,” added a third.
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