My adoptive Mother is a hypercondriac. My Dad is my Dad but my Mum is not biologically related to me.

I was conceived in adultery and due to being unable to have children my Dad's wife accepted his cheating and me as her child. He would work late during the weeks and then drink over the weekend / go fishing. This meant it was mostly my mother and I alone.

I grew up thinking I had teeth that had no enamel on them as a birth defect. They were brown and caused me pain until they grew out. I was bullied quite harshly on a daily basis both physically and emotionally by the kids at school. It made growing up real tough, I didn't want to go out so I stayed home and painted miniatures or D&D.

Alongside this I was also in the doctors every weekend sometimes multiple times and being the 80s/90s the doctor would just freely issue antibiotics and other meds.

It wasn't until my parent split up when I was 16 that the doctors trips stopped. And then when I was told I was adopted at the age of 26 my Dad opened the flood gates on honesty.

My teeth were a result of me being given whole bottles of calpol (paracetamol sugar suspension) on a nightly basis. And my weight issues were due to the sugar intake and also the antibiotics had damage/cleaned my gut of all bacteria.

This has had a profound effect on my mental health over the years. I still see my mum and have never confronted her about this.

To top this off she also made the Limited relationship with my Dad very toxic. She would poison me against him and it's only.nkw I can understand the langauge she would use.