People Who Are the Product of Incest Share Their Stories

Family secrets can sometimes be the most difficult thing to deal with in life and just getting a painful story written down can do a lot to heal the pain associated to it.

People went to Reddit to share their stories about being born as a result of incest or other forms of abuse and how that shaped their lives.

Some people were sworn to secrecy and others have moved on from that detail of their past…

There Wasn’t Any Stigma About It

“So, once upon a time, my grandfather was growing up in Detroit in the 40’s and 50’s and he was dating some girl. Then his parents (Who were from Italy) said that he had a nice cousin across the pond that was very pretty and and a great home maker. A nice first cousin.

Then my grandfather went over to Italy, met my grandmother and then they got hitched started making babies. The early 1900’s and Europe are both weird times. I forget they were first cousins. There wasn’t really any stigma about it because my great grandparents were apparently all for it.

Although I think it was more just to get the rest of the family out of bumpkin town, Italy and over here to the land of the free and home of the brave.”

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We Didn’t Find Out Until My Grandfather’s Funeral

“My mom was the product of [abuse]. Didn’t find out till my grandfathers funeral and my “biological” grandfather showed up.

Mom was in tears and said she couldn’t believe he would be here. Then it all came out. Made me respect my grandfather even more (if possible) he quickly married my grandmother not long after she found she was pregnant and took care of her and eventually my mom.”

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I Wouldn’t Have Ever Known

After that the family pretty much came to terms with it and by the time I came along it was all water under the bridge and they’d accepted and supported the relationship.

It never, ever came up when I was growing up and absolutely no one in my family ever said or did anything that made us feel ostracized, or different. My grandmother was a fantastic grandmother and had walls covered with pictures of us.

My sisters and I grew up close in spite of the fact that they were both grown up and had families of their own by the time I came along.

I probably wouldn’t have ever even known if I hadn’t happened to notice the name thing in my grandmother’s obituary.”

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Don’t Call Me Anymore

“I found out I was the product of [abuse] about 10 years ago. That revelation has to be put into perspective because me and my mother never had a great relationship. Once you find that out comments that she made to me over the years that were really hurtful started making a lot of sense.

For example when I was about 10 me and my brother were playing hide and seek. I ran away from him and he started crying trying to find me. once my mother heard this she runs over gets mad at me and tells me that I must have been switched in the hospital because there’s no way I could be her son.

that and other things over the years have made our relationship strained to the point that it made it easier 2 weeks ago to tell her not to call me or come by my house anymore.”

Story credit: Reddit / @throwaway112380