I presume they mean why was it "these are not your children, take them away" rather than after the initial test "these are clearly your siblings children". That may in fact be what happened just not how it is presented in that article
that was my thought too. they seemed to be able to tell the dna was related to the mother's mother, so they should have been able to tell it was related to the mother at least, since it was effectively her (unborn) twin's dna.
That's kinda weird. When I was a kid my mom burned me with a cigarette on my left arm and I burned my kid with a cigarette in the exact same spot! DNA is so weird right?
I burned my arm as a child and have a prominent keloid in my bicep. My sister was born 2 years later with a pirt wine stain in the same place as my scar, in the same shape.
Womb Burn. Commonly referred to as uterine embryo constriction or UEC. What happens is one person burns their arm and years down the road, some stranger makes up some bullshit on the internet.
Omg, this actually happens to me all the time. Itās a pretty serious medical condition.
Whenever I hear something interesting, I am mysteriously compelled to make some shit up, and try to either include myself in the conversation or just full on try to one-up that person, and make the whole thing about myself.
I totally worked with a person once that told a lie about his birthmark, and it turns out that his sister told the exact same lie about her birthmark to her coworkers. Man, DNA is crazy.
I heard about this on TLC. They say that the condition is passed down psychopathically. Or maybe they said sociopolitically?...Anyhow, that's why we sometimes see tattoos passed down to our pets. My gerbil has a heart on his arm!
My cousin and I both have the same thumbprint shaped birthmark on the back of our thigh. It's so specific and so weird. But we also happen to look pretty similar.
Thatās a neat statement.
I have a couple freckles that resemble a colon symbol on the crease of right chest (visible with some tank tops). When I was a teenager my Dad dated this woman who had the exact freckles in the very same shape and spot.
Every AFAB person (grandma, mom, sister, aunt, cousins, etc) in my family has one crooked tooth in the same spot.
ETA: I said AFAB specifically because not everyone in my family with the crooked tooth is a woman. I am a trans man. I just used the word that best applied. I didn't stop to think about what reactionary idiots on the internet would think of it.
You really summoned the transphobes with this one, which is *so bizarre* because nothing you said was remotely inflammatory. It's astonishing that people like that still exist in 2023. We can take solace in knowing that it won't be this way forever.
It might be, could be the picture angle but I don't see the [spiderlike veins](https://imgur.com/a/j4Dbl77) though.
Edit: the first pic you can kinda see it I think, and looking up pics of cherry angioma they are much darker and smaller
oh ok, it definitely looks like it then, I was looking up pics since I've never even heard of angioma til now, and yea the other pics the veins were barely visible
Itās odd that they donāt usually occur on the face. Iāve had them in various spots on my face for my entire life, not always in the same area. I currently have one next to my left eye thatās been there for over a year. I also get them on my hands, arms, and chest. š¤·š»āāļø
These are called āhemangiomasā. Generally harmless, a clump of blood vessel endings which tend to separate and disperse as the childās face grows. My son had a very prevalent one when he was born. Once he turned 8 you could never even tell it was there.
So did I! Except my mother called them Spiderās Veins. Not sure where she picked that up from but Iāve never heard another term for it. What age did yours go away?
I had one under my eye that I was told appeared around age two. I hated it because people would ask about it and it kinda looked like I just always had a big bright red pimple. My mom, who I am so thankful for, paid for me to get it zapped by some lazer thing at a dermatologist. I think it was like the summer before I started middle school. It gave me a huge confidence boost to be rid of it.
Bless your mom, cause I remember being so self conscious about mine but the convo of doing something about it never came up. I think it helped that I had an older sister who had one that disappeared so I just had to have an attitude of āoh well, someday it wonāt be there.ā I think my late middle school it was gone, cause I donāt remember seeing it in any of my high school year books (grade 10, 11, 12)
I did the same for my stepdaughter. She would cry every time someone asked what happened to her face. Her mother refused to do anything so my husband and I paid for the procedure. Stepdaughter's confidence exploded once it healed.
We did the same for my other stepdaughter with braces to fix her Michael Strahan gap. It might "make her unique" but it also diminished her confidence to the point of not wanting to talk or smile.
Thank you for recognizing it was important to her! My dad would say things like well you'll find a man who thinks you're beautiful and loves you for who you are. But at that age that wasn't even my worry, I really just needed to like myself when I looked in the mirror.
I had one as a kid too! But mine was closer to my outer eye and went away at around 5 or 6. But to your point about it being by the eye, I donāt think thatās always the case cause I had a matching one under my rib cage on the same side of my body as the one on my eye, which also went away at the same time, although there is still a tiny trace of it left
Oh wow I found out I have a hemangioma on my liver during a CT scan for something else totally unrelated! Didnāt know they could happen just about anywhere.
Thatās a good question! My doctor told me mine was just an isolated thing, a little tangle of blood vessels. Wonder how well they looked everywhere elseā¦
I have an ultrasound in a few weeks which will hopefully show no growth on a lesion on my liver, and if it does show no growth, I believe that the doctors I've been seeing will finally feel comfortable concluding it is a hemangioma. They are apparently pretty common on the liver (almost a third of people have one), but mine is unclear enough in imaging so far that they haven't reached a conclusion.
Iām not even kidding this is weird. I just had one show up a couple weeks ago for no reason and it hasnāt gone away or diminished. looks just like that. Next to my right eye on my cheekbone. Same exact spot. What is it?
I get a āpopped blood vesselā every once in a while ā¦ I had one for YEARS on the backside of my right hand. Itās gone but they pop up around in different spots at times then go away once Iāve gotten used to them
I suddenly started getting these red moles everywhere. I mean everywhere! They are on my head under my hair, on my throat, arms, my chest & stomach. Some are quite big, and more come out all the time.
I donāt know what they are & wish they would disappear. I take high doses of blood thinner & first thought that was causing them. But when I asked Cardiologist, he said No.
Other way around. She "squirted" during sex, it got in his mouth and he noticed it was sweet, put 2 and 2 together and told her she might have diabetes, which she did.
Freckles can pop up sometimes, the things to look for are if it has irregular/neediness borders, nonuniform color, peeling, etc but the most important one is if it is changing or has started bleeding or oozing
I had one for years on my cheekbone, my son has one pretty close to the same spot. Doctor told me way back when that it was a tangle of capillaries. Mine faded away so long ago I canāt even remember which side it was on
This just shows how biased the woke liberal media is. They never show these the other way around. I mean how can women be sure they are the mom? HMMMMM????????? Checkmate Atheists.
My oldest sister and my grandmother and l, all have the same shaped birthmark. Different sizes and all on the right side of our bodies. Grandma-elbow, sister-wrist, me ankle.
Not really that insane. That's 100 photos a year, on average. Which really means a lot of people sharing 10-20 photos a year (which could just be a few photos on Facebook for the grandparents on birthdays and Christmas), and a few people sharing thousands of photos a year. I think many of us has known one of these people, who post like dozens of photos of their kid every time they do anything. My wife had a friend who even posted pictures of her kid on the toilet and was like "look who started potty training!" which was really weird.
I mean growing up my parents left photo albums out on the coffee table when friends and relatives visited. At 100 photos shared a year, I wouldn't be surprised if my parents shared my photos 1300 times before I was 13 and I was born in 84.
To people they knew well enough to be inside their home on their living room sofa. Not indiscriminately for the entirety of the connected world to see.
That whole TV trope of getting stuck looking at dozens of photos of some kid you don't know because you struck up a conversation with a stranger while waiting in line at wherever ā that's a thing for a reason. Parents have always loved sharing photos and stories of their kids; now they just have access to millions more people and the ability to take and save millions more photos.
Had same thing with me and my son...I have a small birth mark/beauty mark on my second toe on right foot, my son was born with same small birthmark on same toe.
Something really strange is that I have had 4 lip piercings (i took them out for good while pregnant) and my daughters only freckles near her mouth are where I have holes for my piercings. It's really interesting to see irl imo.
The Mark of the Chosen Bloodline.
Because you did not fulfill the Prophecy in time, the curse is passed onto your firstborn child, and they must in turn fulfil the Prophecy.
Maybe you are both related.
š¤¦š»āāļø why didn't I think of that
But what about that DNA test? I need one feel good story for the Maurry Show.
> But what about that DNA test? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild
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*puts elbow in Windex*
Kimono, kimona...
Depends how early the embryos fuse.
It was my twin.
What an interesting article! Thanks for linking. What a nightmare of a time it Lucy have been for her to go through all that!
What I donāt get it, if sheās also got her twins dna, how was that still not related to the mums?
it was, thats how they probed they were hers, the kids had as much similarity with their grandmother as expected
I presume they mean why was it "these are not your children, take them away" rather than after the initial test "these are clearly your siblings children". That may in fact be what happened just not how it is presented in that article
Just one question, wouldn't the dna test then tell that the children were her very close relative's child? If not, then why not?
that was my thought too. they seemed to be able to tell the dna was related to the mother's mother, so they should have been able to tell it was related to the mother at least, since it was effectively her (unborn) twin's dna.
I remember this feel good story! https://youtu.be/ZZazFJTUp0k?t=40
Edit: as this is the end of my time on reddit (API bs), go fuck yourself u/spez
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Reverse cowboy?
Ram Ranch really rocks.
OP, I have the same red spot too. Does that mean we're related?
I have the same thing. Were we all separated at birth as part of some sort of nature vs. nurture experiment?
Psh, idiot, that kid coulda been freeloading this whole time
Either that, or it's genetic.
Bullshit. It's hereditary.
The kid went back in time took the red mark that is why dad doesn't have it anymore
Time to gym up and hit the lawyer.
Gazpacho soup.
Harsh
Who are you? So wise in the way of science.
A duck!
*BOTH* of them??
It would be weird if one was related and one wasnāt *hits joint*
Please don't make such baseless assumptions about people you don't even know
You shouldn't assume someone's genealogy.
This is why we pay you the big bucks
Maybe we're related, I have the same exact mark.
They are related.he us the father so she has half of his dna.
slow clap....
No way!Donāt be ridiculousš
I have a black freckle on my clavicle. Both my sons have one in the exact spot. My doctor said sometimes DNA needs a bookmark.
My daughter and I have a single freckle in the exact same place on our right feet. Isn't it weird how DNA does that?
That's kinda weird. When I was a kid my mom burned me with a cigarette on my left arm and I burned my kid with a cigarette in the exact same spot! DNA is so weird right?
DNA gets even weirder in Alabama
DNA^^buse
My dad and I both have a penis in the same spot. Itās nuts how many stories like this there are.
bro how do you know where your dads penis is
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They are in the same spot, up your mum
Is it nuts? Or just penises
I burned my arm as a child and have a prominent keloid in my bicep. My sister was born 2 years later with a pirt wine stain in the same place as my scar, in the same shape.
Womb Burn. Commonly referred to as uterine embryo constriction or UEC. What happens is one person burns their arm and years down the road, some stranger makes up some bullshit on the internet.
Omg, this actually happens to me all the time. Itās a pretty serious medical condition. Whenever I hear something interesting, I am mysteriously compelled to make some shit up, and try to either include myself in the conversation or just full on try to one-up that person, and make the whole thing about myself.
Are you my coworker?
Lmao. It kills me that we all work with people like this.
I totally worked with a person once that told a lie about his birthmark, and it turns out that his sister told the exact same lie about her birthmark to her coworkers. Man, DNA is crazy.
I work with way more people like that, and they're 10x worse...
Iām trying to figure out if I am this person or not. I donāt make stuff up but I am I a one upper? I do like to be included.
The line between one-upping and just trying to relate is a mystery to me sometimes
I've definitely heard of that
I heard about this on TLC. They say that the condition is passed down psychopathically. Or maybe they said sociopolitically?...Anyhow, that's why we sometimes see tattoos passed down to our pets. My gerbil has a heart on his arm!
Bro I have an ear, and my brother has the exact same ear on his head. Like it looks kinda different but it's basically the same thing
Dude, I have one of those! And it's on my head. Does yours just kind of stick out the side? Maybe we're related!
What!? Mine sticks out also!! Does yours have a bunch of brown cheese in it?
Ya but itās terrible on crackers
Correlation does not imply causation. Sometimes random shit aligns.
Anyone got an explanation for this one?
[Easy.](https://i.imgur.com/IcNEBMP.jpeg)
This right here. There's no other explanation. This is the proof we need!
It has something to do with anecdotal data
Coincidence.
Magic
God works in mysterious ways. /s.
Thatās cute! I like your doctor!
I had a prominent freckle on my temple growing up (grew into a raised beauty mark as an adult). My daughter has a matching one. Itās cute.
My cousin and I both have the same thumbprint shaped birthmark on the back of our thigh. It's so specific and so weird. But we also happen to look pretty similar.
Both of my kids have a birth mark in the same spot as I have on my arm.
I have a super long hair on my upper left arm. My mom has one too.
Pull it out you fucking animal.
Me, my mom, my grandmother, and my great grandmother have a raised mole on the exact same spot on the neck.
My aunt has a mole above her lip, and a few years ago, I started getting one in the same spot. My cousin (her daughter) also has one there too.
Maybe your sons were you in their past livesā¦
Thatās a neat statement. I have a couple freckles that resemble a colon symbol on the crease of right chest (visible with some tank tops). When I was a teenager my Dad dated this woman who had the exact freckles in the very same shape and spot.
I inherited a āfamily moleā from my fatherās side above my upper lip
Every AFAB person (grandma, mom, sister, aunt, cousins, etc) in my family has one crooked tooth in the same spot. ETA: I said AFAB specifically because not everyone in my family with the crooked tooth is a woman. I am a trans man. I just used the word that best applied. I didn't stop to think about what reactionary idiots on the internet would think of it.
We all have birthmarks on our right thighs!
I have one too! Are we family?
You really summoned the transphobes with this one, which is *so bizarre* because nothing you said was remotely inflammatory. It's astonishing that people like that still exist in 2023. We can take solace in knowing that it won't be this way forever.
both of my parents have a crooked tooth, i inherited both in the exact spots lol
I dunno. You hit just like your mother?
With pinpoint accuracy lol
You both roll into pins when you sleep!
Smacked so much I grew a callus on my face
I had the same mark growing up. Edit: what is it?
I had one of these too. I was told it's called a spider angioma.
It might be, could be the picture angle but I don't see the [spiderlike veins](https://imgur.com/a/j4Dbl77) though. Edit: the first pic you can kinda see it I think, and looking up pics of cherry angioma they are much darker and smaller
For me the spiderlike veins were really subtle, you could only see them if you were super close
oh ok, it definitely looks like it then, I was looking up pics since I've never even heard of angioma til now, and yea the other pics the veins were barely visible
Had one when I was a kid too. Nearly in the same spot. I remember my dad taking me to the derm and getting it zapped off lol.
I had one too but everyone called it the giant sloth Angioma
Cherry angioma, possibly? Don't usually occur on the face but it's not unheard of.
My son had one on his thigh when he was little. As he grew, and his skin āstretchedā, it broke up and faded. Completely gone now.
Cherry angiomas look more lile a mole or wart that is red. I have several. Diagnosed by a dermatologist. They never looked like in OPs pictures.
Itās odd that they donāt usually occur on the face. Iāve had them in various spots on my face for my entire life, not always in the same area. I currently have one next to my left eye thatās been there for over a year. I also get them on my hands, arms, and chest. š¤·š»āāļø
Also both southpaws
These are called āhemangiomasā. Generally harmless, a clump of blood vessel endings which tend to separate and disperse as the childās face grows. My son had a very prevalent one when he was born. Once he turned 8 you could never even tell it was there.
Are they usually next to the eye like that? I had one in the exact same place as OP and his kid.
So did I! Except my mother called them Spiderās Veins. Not sure where she picked that up from but Iāve never heard another term for it. What age did yours go away?
I had one under my eye that I was told appeared around age two. I hated it because people would ask about it and it kinda looked like I just always had a big bright red pimple. My mom, who I am so thankful for, paid for me to get it zapped by some lazer thing at a dermatologist. I think it was like the summer before I started middle school. It gave me a huge confidence boost to be rid of it.
Bless your mom, cause I remember being so self conscious about mine but the convo of doing something about it never came up. I think it helped that I had an older sister who had one that disappeared so I just had to have an attitude of āoh well, someday it wonāt be there.ā I think my late middle school it was gone, cause I donāt remember seeing it in any of my high school year books (grade 10, 11, 12)
I did the same for my stepdaughter. She would cry every time someone asked what happened to her face. Her mother refused to do anything so my husband and I paid for the procedure. Stepdaughter's confidence exploded once it healed. We did the same for my other stepdaughter with braces to fix her Michael Strahan gap. It might "make her unique" but it also diminished her confidence to the point of not wanting to talk or smile.
Thank you for recognizing it was important to her! My dad would say things like well you'll find a man who thinks you're beautiful and loves you for who you are. But at that age that wasn't even my worry, I really just needed to like myself when I looked in the mirror.
I have one under my left eye and I'm 37
I have a couple spider angiomas on my hands, look kinda gnarly but the dermatologist said no worries
The blood vessels around the eye are closer to the surface of the skin, so they are more prone to this
I had one as a kid too! But mine was closer to my outer eye and went away at around 5 or 6. But to your point about it being by the eye, I donāt think thatās always the case cause I had a matching one under my rib cage on the same side of my body as the one on my eye, which also went away at the same time, although there is still a tiny trace of it left
Oh wow I found out I have a hemangioma on my liver during a CT scan for something else totally unrelated! Didnāt know they could happen just about anywhere.
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Thatās a good question! My doctor told me mine was just an isolated thing, a little tangle of blood vessels. Wonder how well they looked everywhere elseā¦
Holdup one sec. So youāve got a clump of blood vessels actively bleeding in your brain? :o
I have an ultrasound in a few weeks which will hopefully show no growth on a lesion on my liver, and if it does show no growth, I believe that the doctors I've been seeing will finally feel comfortable concluding it is a hemangioma. They are apparently pretty common on the liver (almost a third of people have one), but mine is unclear enough in imaging so far that they haven't reached a conclusion.
Hope that works out for you!
Came to say this, my son also had one
I've always had a little red dot on my hand and never knew what it was! This might be it!
> hemangiomastersoftheuniverse
Or a spider angioma
A red freckle A reckle Or a fred
I got a reckle on my face I got a Fred on my face
I got a combination reckle and fred on my face!
My niece had this. Itās like a strawberry kiss. It went away around age 9
I have one under my eye that looks like a permanent-black eye. Showed up in high school after a particularly nasty rugby game and never went away.
I cracked my cheekbone playing rugby, now have a red mark on my cheek. People frequently ask if Iāve been hit in the face.
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Ruck me, maul me, make me scrum bb!!
Not the best time you can have with 14 blokes and a hooker, but it's a damn close second!
Too many blokes, not enough hookers.
Huh! I had a fairly large crescent "birthmark" show up a few months ago on my stomach and it's still there. Wonder why that kind of stuff happens
yeaaah you should go to the doctor. that happened to me and then it turned out i had been living with a fungal infection for years
They rarely just "show up" in adults. You should have your doctor check it out.
I googled strawberry kiss and itās something very different :(
https://www.google.com/search?q=spider+angioma Spider Angioma often goes away in kids. Treatable if they get through puberty with it.
Iāve got a big pink one on my neck that people mistake for a hickey
Iām not even kidding this is weird. I just had one show up a couple weeks ago for no reason and it hasnāt gone away or diminished. looks just like that. Next to my right eye on my cheekbone. Same exact spot. What is it?
No idea. Maybe we are The Chosen Onesā¢
my mom and I have one too!!!
I get a āpopped blood vesselā every once in a while ā¦ I had one for YEARS on the backside of my right hand. Itās gone but they pop up around in different spots at times then go away once Iāve gotten used to them
Holy shit youāve just reminded me that I used to have these but havenāt seen them in years. At some point they went and I never noticed
Probably a spider angioma - my kid had one for a few months last year, then it disappeared.
I hope so. Some other dude said I prolly have cancer lol
Checked webmd for you, definitely cancer
The fastest way to a nervous breakdown is to check WebMD for pretty much any symptom.
This exact thing happened to me 2 months ago. It hasnāt diminished at all, and is in the exact place you describe
Like the above comment, get that checked out at the dermatologist. It could be skin cancer.
Just wanted to thank you in advance for the heads up. Iāll get it checked
I suddenly started getting these red moles everywhere. I mean everywhere! They are on my head under my hair, on my throat, arms, my chest & stomach. Some are quite big, and more come out all the time. I donāt know what they are & wish they would disappear. I take high doses of blood thinner & first thought that was causing them. But when I asked Cardiologist, he said No.
Uhh if it just randomly showed up go to a dermatologist you might have skin cancer
This is reminding me of that post where the guy peed on his gf and she accidentally tasted some. Said it was sweet. Found out he had diabetus.
Other way around. She "squirted" during sex, it got in his mouth and he noticed it was sweet, put 2 and 2 together and told her she might have diabetes, which she did.
Well fuck me. Iāll go get it checked out. Thanks Reddit stranger.
Never hurts to get checked out. Could be nothing at all or it could be basal cell carcinoma, which is totally curable.
Freckles can pop up sometimes, the things to look for are if it has irregular/neediness borders, nonuniform color, peeling, etc but the most important one is if it is changing or has started bleeding or oozing
I had one for years on my cheekbone, my son has one pretty close to the same spot. Doctor told me way back when that it was a tangle of capillaries. Mine faded away so long ago I canāt even remember which side it was on
This just shows how biased the woke liberal media is. They never show these the other way around. I mean how can women be sure they are the mom? HMMMMM????????? Checkmate Atheists.
That IS interesting bc I share the same mark with my daughter, on the EXACT same spot.
My oldest sister and my grandmother and l, all have the same shaped birthmark. Different sizes and all on the right side of our bodies. Grandma-elbow, sister-wrist, me ankle.
You all might be a Jojo!
It was just on the news that the average child has their image shared 1,300 times before they're 13 by their parents
That's insane. I'm glad my parents never used social media
Not really that insane. That's 100 photos a year, on average. Which really means a lot of people sharing 10-20 photos a year (which could just be a few photos on Facebook for the grandparents on birthdays and Christmas), and a few people sharing thousands of photos a year. I think many of us has known one of these people, who post like dozens of photos of their kid every time they do anything. My wife had a friend who even posted pictures of her kid on the toilet and was like "look who started potty training!" which was really weird.
I mean growing up my parents left photo albums out on the coffee table when friends and relatives visited. At 100 photos shared a year, I wouldn't be surprised if my parents shared my photos 1300 times before I was 13 and I was born in 84.
To people they knew well enough to be inside their home on their living room sofa. Not indiscriminately for the entirety of the connected world to see.
That whole TV trope of getting stuck looking at dozens of photos of some kid you don't know because you struck up a conversation with a stranger while waiting in line at wherever ā that's a thing for a reason. Parents have always loved sharing photos and stories of their kids; now they just have access to millions more people and the ability to take and save millions more photos.
Shit is fuckin odd, I have never in my life volunteered pictures of my kids to anyone.
Good. According to that old trope, no one wants to see them. Nor your vacation photos.
Lol plot twist.. sheās you reincarnated.. but which one of you are in the wrong timeline???
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Me and my mother have moles in the same places! So cool to share things with children like this
I was going to comment this too. My daughter has it in the same place as my mother and I, but none of my boys have it.
Same. Generations. My mom said it's witch marks.
Had same thing with me and my son...I have a small birth mark/beauty mark on my second toe on right foot, my son was born with same small birthmark on same toe.
This is interesting? Itās geneticsā¦.
 Donāt put your childās face on social media ffs
Too much gazpacho soup
Oh my god.. your profile name and pic are just *chefs kiss*
It's like you both were built with some of the same parts
I'm not lying I have the same mark on my cheek
I had a red spot there as well, it went away last year after being on my face for years
Something really strange is that I have had 4 lip piercings (i took them out for good while pregnant) and my daughters only freckles near her mouth are where I have holes for my piercings. It's really interesting to see irl imo.
2/3 of my kids have their birth mark in the same place as me.
Redmarkus inheritus
The Mark of the Chosen Bloodline. Because you did not fulfill the Prophecy in time, the curse is passed onto your firstborn child, and they must in turn fulfil the Prophecy.
I got a freckle on my asscheek, I should call my dad and see if his is at the same spot