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They Said I Was Adopted as a Prank… But It Broke Me | Storis For U
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Aug 9, 2025
#redditrelationship #aita #redditstories They Said I Was Adopted as a Prank… But It Broke Me | Storis For U When I was 12, I discovered something strange — there were no baby photos of me before I was 18 months old. What started as innocent curiosity turned into the most devastating prank ever pulled on me. My sister and cousin convinced me I was adopted… and they had fake documents, photos, and a heartbreaking backstory to "prove" it. This story isn’t just about a prank — it’s about trust, identity, and the damage words can cause. Watch until the end to hear how it all unfolded — and what it taught me about family, betrayal, and healing. ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Emotional distress, family manipulation ➤ Subscribe for more real-life stories that hit hard. ➤ Share this video if you've ever been on the receiving end of a prank that went too far.
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So, you know how every family has that
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one person who's a little extra? The one
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who thinks they're the master of pranks?
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Yeah. Well, in my family, that was my
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older sister, Lillian.
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And for a long time, I just thought that
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was her entire personality.
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Salt in my orange juice.
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Classic Lillian.
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Shaving cream in the hand.
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Yep, that was her, too. Annoying, sure,
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but I thought it was just normal sister
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stuff.
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Then my cousin Patricia came to stay for
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the summer, and that's when things went
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from annoying to straight up evil genius
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level. Today, I'm telling you the story
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of the most messed up prank anyone has
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ever pulled on me. A prank that didn't
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just hurt my feelings, it broke me. And
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it all started with some missing baby
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pictures. The clue in the family album.
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I was 12 years old and honestly a little
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bored. So I did what any kid with a lot
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of time on their hands does. I went
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digging through old family albums. My
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parents were photo crazy. There were
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albums dedicated to my sister Lillian
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from the moment she was born. First
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smile, first bath, first time she ate
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solid food. All of it was meticulously
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documented. But as I flipped through my
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own baby photos, I started to notice
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something strange. There were no
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pictures of me before I was about 18
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months old. It was like I just appeared.
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I had a few photos from when I was a
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toddler and then the albums were full.
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But those first two years,
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it was a complete blank. I showed
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Lillian and asked her about it and her
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face,
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it changed.
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She got this weird, almost secretive
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look. She said, "Oh, you don't know."
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And then, like a villain in a movie, she
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called my cousin Patricia into the room.
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They sat me down, and the air in the
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room got heavy. Lillian, looking me dead
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in the eyes, said, "Mom and dad were
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going to wait until you were older to
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tell you this."
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My heart started to pound in my chest. I
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knew logically this had to be a prank,
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but the way they were acting was
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different. This wasn't their usual
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gotcha energy. And that's when they
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dropped the bomb. I was adopted. The
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evidence and the story. At first, I
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laughed. I mean, it was so ridiculous,
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right? This was just another one of
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their ridiculous pranks. But then,
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Patricia pulled out a folder, a folder
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she had made. Inside, it looked like
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there were official documents. They had
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taken real papers from my parents' home
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office and photoshopped them. There was
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a fake birth certificate with a
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different woman's name.
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My heart started pounding even harder. I
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still didn't fully believe them, but the
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fear was starting to creep in.
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This was so much more than putting
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shaving cream on a doororknob. Then
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Lillian showed me pictures of my mom
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from when she was supposedly pregnant
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with me. But as I looked at the dates
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and my mom's stomach, it didn't add up.
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They had done their research. They had
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put in the work to make this feel real.
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And then came the crulest part. They had
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a whole story about how my real mom was
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a teenager who couldn't keep me. And
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they used something I was already
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insecure about to prove it. That's why
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you look different from everyone in the
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family, Lillian said, her voice sounding
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so serious. Everyone else has blue eyes
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and you have brown. That was a sore spot
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for me. I had always been the odd one
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out. And in that moment, all of my
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insecurities came rushing to the
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surface. It suddenly made sense.
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All the times I felt like I was treated
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differently. All the jokes about my
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eyes, they weren't jokes. They were
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clues. I completely broke down. I
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started hyperventilating, crying
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uncontrollably. I ran and locked myself
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in the bathroom for hours. I remember
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staring at my reflection in the mirror,
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searching for any resemblance to my
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parents. I was having a full-on identity
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crisis at 12 years old. Who was I? Was
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my entire life a lie? I thought about
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all the things Lillian had said. Mom and
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dad favor Lillian.
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And honestly, in that moment, it felt
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true. It felt like the perfect
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explanation for everything that had ever
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felt unfair.
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The aftermath and the damage. My parents
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came home and found me still crying in
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the bathroom. They were confused at
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first, but when they finally figured out
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what had happened, they were furious. I
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had never seen my dad that angry. My mom
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was crying too, seeing how hurt I was.
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They grounded Lillian for the entire
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summer. And Patricia,
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my parents called her parents and sent
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her home the very next day. But the
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damage was done. For weeks, I questioned
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everything. I would ask my mom these
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heartbreaking questions.
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Did you pick me because you felt sorry
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for me? Do you wish you had a real
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daughter instead?
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My mom, a kind and loving woman, was
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devastated.
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She tried to reassure me. But a
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12-year-old's mind, once a seed of doubt
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is planted, it grows into a forest of
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fear.
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The emotional toll was so bad that my
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mom eventually took me to a therapist. I
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was having nightmares and serious trust
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issues.
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I couldn't look at Lillian or Patricia
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the same way.
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The therapist helped me work through a
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lot of it, but honestly, what helped
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more was when my mom finally found what
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I was looking for in the first place.
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She had dug out a bunch of my missing
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baby pictures. It turned out that when I
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was a baby, a huge box of our family
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photos had been accidentally mixed up
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with some old paperwork. My parents had
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put all the baby pictures in a separate
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box, and that's where my early baby
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photos were. Lillian and Patricia in
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their evil genius plotting had found
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that box and hid it. They knew exactly
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what they were doing. They created a
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hole in my memories to fill with a lie.
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I showed my mom the pictures that
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Lillian and Patricia had used. She was
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livid. She told me that the pictures of
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her pregnant were just bad angles and
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the documents were clearly fake. But to
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a 12-year-old when you're already
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feeling insecure, it's all too easy to
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believe.
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The takeaway that prank was so much more
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than just a joke. It was a complete
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violation of my trust and my identity.
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I've always wondered what was going
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through their minds. Did they not think
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about the emotional consequences?
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Or did they just not care? It taught me
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a lot about trust and how fragile it can
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be, and it definitely changed my
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relationship with Lillian and Patricia
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forever.
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We eventually patched things up, but a
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part of me always wondered what they
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were capable of.
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The joke stopped, but the memory of that
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day still hurts. So the next time
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someone tells you a prank is just a
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joke, remember this story. Because
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sometimes a prank is just cruelty
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disguised as humor. And the damage it
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leaves behind is anything but
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