"Growing up, I was teased a lot by my sister and mother; they would point out how I looked different from them and distort their faces to look like mine to mock me. One running joke is that I was the "Asian milkman's" daughter because I have a partial epicanthic fold, and they didn't. Turns out, I actually AM my father's child, and the reason that I looked different from my sister is because she wasn't!"
"The first few years of my life were extremely traumatic, as my mother suffered from a psychotic break before or around the time I was born, and my father assumed I was an affair child and hated me. They were both extremely physically and verbally abusive.It wasn't until I grew up a little and people started to see how strongly I resembled my father that they realized they might have been wrong."
She was routinely mocked by her mother and sister for appearing different, including jokes about being the "Asian milkman's" daughter because of a partial epicanthic fold. Family members later revealed the mother had multiple partners and the father believed he could not have children. The father raised a daughter he knew was not biologically his and accused the narrator of being an affair child, subjecting her to physical and verbal abuse. The mother experienced a psychotic break around the birth. A DNA test later proved biological paternity, the mother eventually admitted the truth, and the narrator is estranged from her family.
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