Teen suspects that her parents are lying to her about her real age after identifying discrepancies in her birth documents: ‘I feel crazy’

When this possible 18-year-old begins to find discrepancies in her identity documents, she continues to investigate what her parents might be hiding from her, and why.

As children, we grow accustomed to telling little white lies to our parents. Instead of telling them we're going on dates at 16, we carefully curate a friend hangout and let all our buddies know to cover for us if our parents call. The classic "climb out the window" cliché doesn't exist for no reason; most teens have felt, at some point, that they needed to lie to their parents to avoid social ruin. You usually don't anticipate that your parents will turn around and carefully curate lies not only about life in general, but also about your life. Perhaps, what age you might actually be.

You don't think to go through all of your identifying documents when you're a teenager, mostly because you trusted your parents to take care of them and hide them away in a fireproof folder until they considered you trustworthy enough to keep them for yourself. It's difficult to theorize why parents would go out of their way to lie to their children about their age. On the one hand, this entire story might be one big misunderstanding. On the other hand, they might be trying to hide a dirty little secret, and their little angel has finally caught on.

This teen isn't going gentle into her goodnight. She had always felt like she was running behind her peers, what with her being a late bloomer and her healthcare companies reaching out to her about her care switching from pediatric to adult services, contrary to other documents. These confusions are nearly too excessive to be simple clerical mistakes, and she has her finger on the pulse of this situation.

What do you think is going on here? Is this one big misunderstanding? It's too early to tell, but her parents seem much more defensive than a completely innocent person would seem in their shoes. At what point can you stop believing your parents? Does DNA automatically instill unconditional trust? Sound off in the comments below to let us know your take on the story after scrolling through the rest of the tale.