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Mistaken Identity
“My dad was pretty open about it but I know they kept it hush hush within their community. Idk how it when my dad found out but he discovered he had an older brother, his parents’ oldest child(Ron, if I remember right, named after his dad). When Ron was preschool aged they were told he was ‘mentally retarded’. Horrified, they turned him over to the state and never spoke of him again.
Years later word got back to them that the kid was not in fact mentally disabled, he had ‘auditory dyslexia’(now called auditory processing disorder). He grew up to be a fully functioning independent adult. He refused to have any contact with the family when my dad reached out. Totally fair imo.”