We weren't the shady clinic's only victims...

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00:00I was supposed to be chocolate but I'm vanilla. He told them that it would take up to a year for

00:05me to turn brown. They wanted kids and they have fertility issues so they went to see a

00:11fertility specialist and they specifically requested that the sperm donation was by a

00:15black donor. When the nurse came in after I was born to tell my mom about my jaundice,

00:20mom mentioned that I was a mixed baby. I'll let you be the judge but something was definitely a

00:24bit sus. And the answers they got from the doctor sent them into absolute outrage. My mom and dad

00:30went back to the IVF doctor to question what was going on. He told them that it would take up to a

00:36year for me to turn brown. Around my first birthday my mom called up the clinic to ask for more

00:42information about this and they pulled up the information and said the donor was a redhead.

00:466'5", he simply said you should be thankful for what you have. Take me to court if you'd like but

00:51this is what insurance is for and the kicker is as I've since found out information about my donor.

00:56The truth she uncovered shook her to her core. 19 years I decided to take an Ancestry DNA kit.

01:01Nothing happened forever. Fast forward another six years I get a DM on Instagram which leads to

01:0612 half siblings. Not only did I get 12 half siblings but the donor's daughter was the one

01:12who reached out to me so I got that information too. Took me a few months to reach out but when I did

01:16what we discovered was insane. When I shared with Kelsey that my whole situation was a mix-up she said

01:21I wasn't the only one. Now within this group of 12 there's three smaller groups. There's the donor's

01:26children who he's conceived through marriage. They grew up in Alberta. Then there is a group from

01:30Alberta who were conceived via IVF from his donation in Alberta which he was promised would not happen.

01:36Then there's a group of us who were conceived in Toronto and out of us Torontonian spermies three

01:40of us were mixed up. And that was only the start of the secrets about to unravel. Kelsey and I

01:44immediately called each other and we spoke on the phone for probably three hours. Not only did she fill me in

01:49about the other mix-ups but we also realized that we had been in the same place at the same time

01:53before. But back to the mix-ups. I have a Portuguese brother who's currently living in Australia and his

01:58parents traveled to Toronto to receive their IVF treatment. It's my understanding that they

02:02specifically requested a Portuguese donor and they were told they got one. Also a set of twins conceived

02:07in Toronto. I'm not going to say their ethnicity due to privacy reasons but they weren't white. Both of

02:12their parents were the same ethnicity. They also thought they were fully the same ethnicity. They're pretty

02:17shocked when they matched with all of us. So that's three families that experience mix-ups.

02:22But how has she coped with looking completely different from the rest of her family?

02:26I continued living my life. Here's my siblings here. I have a few more. Here's a picture of my sister

02:32Grace and Yeshua, my youngest brother. And here's even a picture of me with my two cousins in Ghana.

02:39This was just super normal for me. This is my family. I love them. I had never questioned anything.

02:44Growing up I was just told I was pink like mommy. My siblings were brown like daddy. You know kind

02:49of like dogs. How you can have a white and a black dog in the same litter. When I was about 11 or 12

02:55they did end up telling me. But I kind of let that all lay to rest.