After years of being told I was part Cherokee, someone was mad that I wasn't. - eviltoast

He is now denying the validity of dna tests. I don’t want to say the past 35 years of having him treat me worse than he treats his sister had anything to do with his assumptions of my dna, but he was upset to learn that I am more Irish than him. I wonder what he thought of my mother before these results…

  • LesserAbe@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m sure that was a factor in many of these instances. That said in our family my impression was it was more of a “here’s something special about us” type thing, like there’s nothing otherwise noteworthy.

    • s_s@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      That’s generally how these things are always communicated to later generations. 😂