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Originally Posted by NP_Complete
I recently did one of those DNA testing kits, 23andme. I got my results back last night. My feelings about this may not make sense to any of you, but I was adopted as an infant in a closed adoption so I have only ever had the demographic information provided by my 15yo birth mother. The idea of being blood related to someone has always been a very vague and hypothetical idea to me. Apparently there were DNA matches found. I don't know how to deal with this information right now. I haven't clicked into that part of the report. I knew this was a possibility but I also did not prepare myself for this. We probably should have spent several sessions on this, but we didn't. The current plan is to not look at this information until we can meet again in person and do it in session. I emailed him that I got the results and the feelings I was having about it. It was his idea to read it in session and I think it's a sound one.
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I imagine that any sort of DNA connections could be meaningful to you. But I also have done 23andme, and pretty much all of the connections it's given me have been things like fourth cousins or further out. So know that if it says you have a DNA match, it doesn't mean that it would be something like a sibling or parent--could be someone fairly distant. It still seems like a good idea to read it in session. Just preparing you that it might not be as enlightening as you could think.