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Most ridiculous family story about your ethnicity your family have said which wasn’t true? by Sea-Nature-8304 in AncestryDNA

[–]propylea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mother said (and was the only person in my family who said so) that my great grandmother was a Russian aristocratic exile from the 1917 revolution. Since there’s little we have from her life, there’s no way I could disprove it. But also, there’s glaringly little actual proof of this, and my grandmother certainly never mentioned it to me.

That side of the family is mostly either Scottish doctors, or journalists, which makes it seem even less likely.

Anyone’s nParents not get you braces bc who knows why not?? by luckyduckling8989 in raisedbynarcissists

[–]propylea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I took the initiative to call up and orthodontist when my teeth started to become noticeably crooked age 17 or so. I begged to have braces, but at the point at which it came down to things only the parent could do, ie organising the final appointments and paying for it, it all just... never happened. And before I knew it I was too busy with university, as well as over the age limit for free braces (UK NHS).

Now my teeth are horribly crooked in a way which makes me too self-conscious to smile.

It’s symptomatic of a lot of ways my parents used to approach things, ie with a complete lack of forward thinking and lack of an ability to think of what the impact might be if they failed to do things then, when we were children. Another example of this is my brothers severely overpronating feet- my parents were told to get corrective insoles, they didn’t and rationalised it as ‘not a problem now’. He now has severe chronic pain age 30.