following story<\/a>, one daughter faces this exact decision and feels everyone has the right to know.<\/p>\nHere\u2019s what happened.<\/p>\n
I (28F) recently found out I have a serious hereditary illness that\u2019s going to mess up my life, and I am so mad I can barely type this out.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a degenerative illness, no cure, nothing. My body\u2019s just gonna slowly get worse.<\/p>\n
And the kicker? My parents have known this could happen my whole life and never said a word.<\/p>\n
This illness runs in my family.<\/p>\n
A lot of her family members have the same illness.<\/p>\n
My dad\u2019s mom had it. His sister\u2014my aunt\u2014died from it a few years ago.<\/p>\n
I was living overseas when she passed, and my parents told me it was cancer. Cancer. They lied right to my face.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until I got diagnosed that they finally came clean and admitted she had the same illness I do.<\/p>\n
When I confronted them, my dad wouldn\u2019t even give me a straight answer. I asked if he had it too, and he dodged every single question, acting like I was overreacting.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s where things took a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n
My mom, on the other hand, tried to justify it by saying they didn\u2019t want me \u201cliving in fear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Are you kidding me? I could have been prepared! Instead, they chose to let me walk into this blind.<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s where it gets worse\u2014I have a 2-year-old son. My child might have this, and they never told me I was at risk. I could\u2019ve had him tested, made informed decisions, anything.<\/p>\n
But no, they took that from me, and now I live in constant fear for him, too.<\/p>\n
Then my mom had the nerve to ask me if I would rather not have been born than deal with this.<\/p>\n
Can you believe that? She turned it around on me, like I\u2019m the monster for even thinking it.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how she responded.<\/p>\n
And you know what?<\/p>\n
Yes, I said it. Yes, I would rather not have been born than deal with this disease.<\/p>\n
They made a selfish choice, and now I\u2019m paying for it. They knew the risks and did it anyway, for themselves. They wanted kids, and now I\u2019m stuck with this.<\/p>\n
I called them selfish, and I meant every word.<\/p>\n
Now, they want her to stay quiet, but she can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n
Now, they\u2019re begging me not to tell my younger siblings. They don\u2019t know about this yet, haven\u2019t been tested, and my parents want to keep it that way.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re hoping they\u2019ll get lucky, but I\u2019m not going to lie to them. I refuse to let them be blindsided like I was. They deserve to know the truth.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve gone low-contact with my parents. I can\u2019t stand to even think about them right now.<\/p>\n
The guilt trips won\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n
My mom keeps trying to guilt-trip me, saying they were \u201cjust trying to protect me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Protect me from what? The truth? No, they weren\u2019t protecting me. They were protecting themselves from the guilt of knowing they passed this on, and now they want me to protect them, too.<\/p>\n
But I won\u2019t. I love my son and my siblings too much to lie to them.<\/p>\n
AITA?<\/p>\n
Wow! It\u2019s easy to see both sides of this, but the parents should\u2019ve seen it coming.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see what the fine folks over at Reddit have to say about this situation.<\/p>\n
This person\u2019s family also deals with a hereditary disease.<\/p>\n
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For this person, the parents took away all of her choices.<\/p>\n
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This reader thinks it\u2019s probably Huntington\u2019s Disease.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s someone who tells her to do it.<\/p>\n
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For this reader, what the parents did is abuse.<\/p>\n
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She should tell them.<\/p>\n
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a daughter who invited herself to her parents\u2019 40th anniversary vacation for all the wrong reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pexels\/Redidt Finding out you\u2019ve inherited a life-changing illness is devastating enough, but realizing the people who should have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75327,23625,59,12346,102,75328,75329,75330,2370,621,2373,56,75331,54,55],"class_list":["post-166617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-adult-kids","tag-aita","tag-gb","tag-genetic-diseases","tag-health","tag-huntingtons-disease","tag-irresponsible-parents","tag-lying","tag-picture","tag-reddit","tag-top","tag-uk","tag-unfair-situations","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}