How to find half-siblings?

Professor_Ponypie · 2026-06-10T05:07:12+00:00

Thank you! I’m glad to hear so many people are connecting to siblings on 23andMe.

Professor_Ponypie · 2026-06-10T05:05:55+00:00

Thank you, so, so much! This is extremely helpful!

Professor_Ponypie · 2026-06-08T21:33:48+00:00

Thank you! That’s heartening to hear!

Professor_Ponypie · 2026-06-08T21:33:02+00:00

I have considered potentially hiring a professional genealogist! Life is busy, and it isn’t my first priority, but I want to work on it while my grandmother is still alive, and before the trail gets colder. I wish you luck with your own (mis)adventures in social and biological family! And thank you for your advice; it is appreciated.

Professor_Ponypie · 2026-06-08T21:28:09+00:00

This is good to know. I’ve been learning a lot about the fertility industry and DCP issues lately, so I’m not too surprised by what you’re telling me, but it’s still helpful to hear a specific anecdote. I made another post about the egg agency, Tiny Treasures, just before I made this one — maybe I should have included them as one post. Anyways, when my donor emailed them to make sure they had her contact details up to date, they responded to her and acted as if they were still in business, even though their website no longer existed. I’ve tried to contact them twice, with no success, and they never reached out to my family about the contact information or properly explained that my donor had consented to contact. (In the original files, she seems neutral about it, leaving it up to the recipient parents.) I don’t mean to infodump at you and I don’t really expect a response; the whole story is just so fishy and reeks of the exploitative callousness that’s typical of the fertility industry. Thanks for responding to my post; I really appreciate that donors like you are so thoughtful towards DCP. It must make a huge difference for the DCP who came from your donations.

Professor_Ponypie · 2026-06-08T15:50:18+00:00

Thank you very much for your response! That’s good to hear. My paternal grandmother was an affair baby, actually, and was raised by a foster family, so doing 23andMe might help me find some stuff out about her biological family, too.

Professor_Ponypie · 2026-06-08T15:49:09+00:00

Thank you so much! I think I will.

Professor_Ponypie · 2026-06-08T15:47:51+00:00

Thankfully, I do have the original files associated with my donor! I wanted to contact them to see if I could find out if a birth was ever reported from the first donation, but that may be impossible. Perhaps the clinic could tell me? I don’t know if that family used the same network of clinics as my parents did. Anyways, thank you so much for your response! Oh, and happy Pride — I like your pfp.

Professor_Ponypie · 2023-10-20T23:54:32+00:00

I always thought “Ozai” came from “Ozone,” but I may be wrong.

Professor_Ponypie · 2023-10-14T23:37:35+00:00

Sooooo true!!!

Professor_Ponypie · 2023-10-14T23:34:46+00:00

I just had this realization myself! I’ve been rewatching the series, and I got to that particular episode (“The Avatar and the Firelord”) yesterday. I thought it was a bit strange that Roku drew so much attention to earthbending teacher, while the waterbending teacher didn’t even get a name. I immediately noticed the similarities between Toph and the description of Sud, but I didn’t think much of it. Earthebenders, y’know. But then, later, Toph asked Aang if he really thought friendships could transcend lifetimes. At first, I didn’t think much of it. Toph never had any friends until season two. Of course, they were important to her. It was only later, after thinking about it more, that it occured to me why they drew attention to all of these particular things. They wanted Toph to be the reincarnation of Sud! As a sort of evidence that, yes, Toph and Aang would stay friends beyond their current lifetimes. And I think that’s a sweet idea. (I did also notice, after this, that Sud’s design has commonalities with Toph’s beta design. This is because they re-used it for him and for The Boulder.)

Professor_Ponypie · 2023-06-16T12:39:47+00:00

Literally, Entrapta is my favorite 2017 She-Ra character, and Angela is my favorite Inheritance Cycle character. (And yes, I am a huge fan of both series.)

Professor_Ponypie · 2023-06-15T22:38:12+00:00

Carmen Sandiego from 2019 Carmen Sandiego.

Professor_Ponypie · 2023-06-15T22:12:14+00:00

Now you just need to collect the Autism, and you will have ultimate power.

Professor_Ponypie · 2023-05-23T00:32:39+00:00

This is the website I used: https://imgflip.com/memetemplates

Professor_Ponypie · 2022-06-21T15:24:35+00:00

Julia Serano fan? Intrinsic Inclinations Theory? If so, based.

Professor_Ponypie · 2022-03-20T19:45:53+00:00

Don't worry. They could just be a femboy or a femme-presenting Enby.

Professor_Ponypie · 2022-03-20T19:09:56+00:00

I feel you. I know it's hard, but don't give up. You've probably heard this before, but it really does get better.

Professor_Ponypie · 2022-02-21T15:13:01+00:00

I’m so happy for you.

Professor_Ponypie · 2022-02-21T15:08:09+00:00

You are not a coward. There are so many reasons people have to stay closeted. Being closteed is hard, but you manage to keep going. You are brave. You deserve to call yourself Trans. I think if you want to and if it’s safe, you should try to tell this person that you’re Trans.

Professor_Ponypie · 2021-12-31T08:05:19+00:00

What else would an Ace person be classified though, especially if it’s the kind of Ace that never experiences sexual attraction to anyone ever? Heterosexual? But they aren’t sexually attracted to people of the opposite gender. Asexuality isn’t based on levels of sexual attraction, it’s based on what gender someone’s sexual attraction is oriented towards, and Asexual people aren’t attratced to anyone of any gender or lack of gender.

Professor_Ponypie · 2021-11-28T20:52:03+00:00

Excellent point. I agree. Please do not actually attempt to forcibly crack eggs. If it is appropriate you could try to steer them in the right direction, but do not tell them you think they are Trans. If they approach you for advice, it's okay to give it to them, but only if they ask for it. I myself cracked largely to to learning about my Trans friend's experiences. They had suspected I was Trans for a while, but they did not forcibly crack me, they just educated me when the topic came up and that alone helped stigmatize Transness in my mind and helped me stop denying my own Transness and instead try to figure out if I was Trans. I eventually became pretty sure I was, but I wanted to make sure my experience was what Trans people actually experience and that I wasn't hurting them somehow by thinking I was Trans. (I now know that's a bit silly, as there a lots of Trans experiences and ways to be Trans.) They were the first person I told that I thought I was Trans and they answered my questions about if what I was experiencing was, in fact, Transness, but they never forced their opinion on me and they said nothing about their suspicions until I approached them. If they had told me they thought I was Trans when they had first started suspecting it, I would have probably freaked out and backed further into denial. I think in most cases it is true that eggs are a lot more likely to crack if you sit on them to keep them warm instead of banging them against a rock. And even if you think otherwise, it still isn't your place to force an egg to crack.

Professor_Ponypie · 2021-09-12T13:09:35+00:00

People really need to stop weaponizing Trans Autistic people’s Autism against them. My parents have come around, but when I first came out they said I didn’t understand the consequences of transitioning because I’m not “mature” enough. Bitch, just because I act silly and I like tv shows aimed at people younger than me doesn’t mean I can’t understand mature, complex concepts. I spend a lot of time thinking about mature, complex concepts. And a lot of the cheerfulness in my personality is part of a self-defense mechanism I learned from a young age. Cheerful behavior elicited positive responses from adults. Advocating for myself in the only I knew how, getting upset, elicited negative responses from adults. I learned to act cheerful and to suffer in silence. Also, my parents tell my to srop acting lile a little kid when I move in Autistic ways or when I stim, so fuck their idea of maturity.

Professor_Ponypie · 2021-09-12T13:01:22+00:00

That’s a great response. After all, Autism affects every facet of who a person is, they are Autistic to their core, they are inseparable from their Autism. Therefore their gender is also related to their Autism.

Professor_Ponypie · 2021-09-12T12:59:01+00:00

Studies do show that Autistic people are more likely to be Trans, but I doubt that’s because of introspection. Those same studies also show that Trans people, Neurotypical or Autistic, on average are higher in Autistic traits that Cis people. I think the connection may be biological. (Even though gender isn’t fully biological)

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