My Twin Brother and I Took a DNA Test for Fun – The Results Showed 0% Genetic Match, and My Mother’s Guilty Look Said Everything

My brother and I grew up believing we were fraternal twins. Same birthday. Same childhood. Same bond. Recently, just for fun, we took DNA tests. We expected partial genetic overlap, like regular siblings.

Instead, the results showed 0% match.

We thought it had to be a mistake. We retested. Same result.

When we asked our parents, they exchanged a look I’d never seen before—fear mixed with guilt. My mom dismissed the tests as unreliable. That only made the panic worse.

So I went to the hospital where we were born. The records showed my brother and me listed together, but then a nurse hesitated and said something that made my stomach drop:

“Your mother is listed for only one birth. She did not deliver twins.”

When I confronted my mom, she broke down.

She told me the truth: I am not her biological child. I was born the same day as my brother, in the same hospital. My birth mother died during delivery. There was no father listed. No family. I was going to be placed for adoption.

My parents heard what happened and couldn’t bear the idea of a newborn with no one. They took me home that day, raised me as their own, and told everyone I was their son’s twin so I would never feel different or abandoned.

Now everything I believed about my identity feels shattered. I love my family, but I feel betrayed. I don’t know who I am anymore, and I don’t know how to move forward from a truth hidden from me my entire life.