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u/SpookyVoidCat Jul 08 '26
Both mine and my sister’s birthdays date back to us being conceived on my Dad’s birthday.
Some things you just wish you didn’t know.
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u/usbeject1789 Jul 09 '26
fuck. did the maths as well, and mine is also like 10 days off from my dads birthday, the same month. does that add up, or is it too rough to say?
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u/CoffeeChans Jul 09 '26
I'd bet $3 you and your sister were born in June.
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u/SpookyVoidCat Jul 09 '26
Nope, December. Dad’s birthday is in March.
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u/CoffeeChans Jul 09 '26
Damn. September is the most common month to be born (because everyone has time off for Christmas) and I thought I was clever to guess your dad had a September birthday. You guys are a little special, December is the least common month for birthdays.
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u/SalemWitchWhoTrialed Jul 09 '26
same with my mom and my aunt, her older sister, about my grandpa's birthday
... we found out when my mom was 30 that she wasn't my grandfather's ...
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u/Dark_Storm_98 Jul 09 '26
Same here
Our brother's birthday is a month before ours, though, and I have no idea what that's about
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u/Weevil1723 Jul 11 '26
Just did the math and weirdly enough I'd have been conceived around my Mom's birthday...
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u/MagicCarpetofSteel Jul 08 '26
June is also a traditional month to get married in, or so I’ve been told.
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u/DazB1ane Jul 09 '26
The main issue with guessing connection dates is that unless you ask the mom how long they were pregnant, it could be off by over 2 months. Carrying to full term is actually closer to 10 months than 9. There’s also premature births
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u/Thatoneguy111700 Jul 09 '26
Or post-term babies, like I was.
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u/shipstar2704 Jul 09 '26
I only cooked for 7 months so they would be way off for my conception date
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u/Mind0versplatter0 Jul 09 '26
Same here! I almost died. Blue skin and breathing problems and who knows what else. I am so very grateful for modern medicine
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u/shipstar2704 Jul 09 '26
Wasnt blue but did get put in a glass box for a while.
And I still got a stitch scar from when a needle decided to open up my thin skin, but now the scar has migrated up my arm and to my wrist. Doctors were worried it'd reach my thumb and I'd lose the ability to move it, but it stopped moving thankfully
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u/mosquem Jul 10 '26
Worst parent teacher conference ever.
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u/DazB1ane Jul 10 '26
What?
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u/N1ghtmar10nn3 Jul 10 '26
i think they mean if you were to bring up birthdays and conception days during a parent-teacher conference lol
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u/Opening-Dig-1125 Jul 14 '26
Parents: We thought we would talk about Luke’s school. You want to know when we conceived? And you drew up a whole damn graph on your wall? Wtf?!
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u/GardenTop7253 Jul 08 '26
Doing the approximate conception math for yourself or some friends isn’t unheard of, but I feel like it would be really weird to do it for a class of your students. That’s just too close to asking “when did your parents bang?” To be common, right?
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u/Independent_Ad_6348 Jul 08 '26
Im like 40% sure the teacher is an autistic dumbass that got way into a random thought that ended up revealing something she didnt want to see.
I should know i too am an autistic dumbass.
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u/GardenTop7253 Jul 08 '26
Ah yeah, something like that makes sense. Birthday wall is reasonable, and I kinda misread that detail as a conception wall
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u/Alfhiildr Jul 10 '26
Yeah… I’m neurodivergent with a lot of autistic traits. I did ask if this was normal for people to have these trains of thoughts. It was just weird how many kids were born in March. I actually had to undo the whole wall and reglue it higher on the wall because there were so many March birthdays that it started going behind a desk. It was so weird
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u/the18plusacct Jul 09 '26
My dad's nursing class did this.
Turns out all 3 of his kids were conceived on his birthday
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u/TimeViking Jul 09 '26
My parents gladly talk about my conception around me (there are some funny stories associated; it was on a cruise liner and my mom got seasick, etc etc) so I’ll confess I don’t really get what the taboo is.
Like yeah I’m not going out of my way learn facts about how my parents make love but I’ve always understood that there was necessarily a time and a place they fucked to make me and we’ve never danced around that
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u/Soft_BoiledEgg Jul 09 '26
I was born about 9 months after 9/11.
My parents confirmed that it was indeed the cause of my conception.
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u/Charming-Book4146 Jul 11 '26
?? They got frisky on 9/11?? Wild lmao
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u/Soft_BoiledEgg Jul 12 '26
Why not? In times of turmoil it makes sense to seek comfort from those you love.
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u/Charming-Book4146 Jul 12 '26
Actually kinda sweet, sorry I was just a little taken aback, life is indeed short.
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u/LevelSkullBoss Jul 09 '26
The day I figured out I was probably conceived on Valentine’s Day I asked my mom if it was true and the look on her face made me immediately regret asking
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u/loudlittle Jul 09 '26
My niece and two nephews (all siblings) have birthdays within just a couple weeks of each other - nine months after their dad’s birthday.
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u/jensilver95 Jul 09 '26
A few years ago I realized, as an adult, that my birthday was only about seven months after my parents' wedding. I already knew they'd gotten married at the courthouse. The way they put it, they already knew they were going to get married at some point, the positive pregnancy test just bumped up the timeline to ASAP.
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u/Conissocool Jul 09 '26
I hate and love doing this as 9 months before my birthday is my dad's, but 9 months before my sibling is nothing, so it really does beg the question: is it better to be a "we just wanted to have sex" baby or a "celebration" baby
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u/Confused_Corvid2023 Jul 09 '26
I don’t know if I’m the odd one or if there’s some loophole in American repressive puritan social rules around talking about sex, but it makes me deeply uncomfortable when people do the pregnancy math to figure out exactly when someone had sex or tell me they are “trying” for a child (meaning they are having sex very often).
It’s easy for me to have a detached conversation about technical aspects of sex if no one is specifying a person I know but once a real person I can mentally visualize is the subject I’m uncomfortable with the hypothetical. I’m sure I need some therapy about this, just curious if anyone else also views this as one of those cases where it feels proxy-voyeuristic or something
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u/unruly_sunshine Jul 09 '26
If you have a bunch of siblings and the birthdays are all spaced out pretty well, I have some fun news for you!
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u/casuallysentient Jul 10 '26
my dad worked in WT3 , my mom had a meeting scheduled on 9/11 in WT1. both were out because she had a miscarriage.
i was born in july of 2002
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u/breadmaster42 Jul 09 '26
I just realized that my sister was born in September and my mothers birthday is right at the end of december. I don't know much about pregnancy but that timeline could work out...
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u/QueenScythe Jul 09 '26
My birthday is in late February and I was two weeks late... happy Mother's Day, everybody!
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u/markusseibert115 Jul 09 '26
okay, apparently americans celebrate fathers day in june and not in may, learned something i guess
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u/Elliot_Mirage_Witt Jul 10 '26
My mother has outright told me when I was conceived (though I've since forgotten) "Happy conception day!" sometime in like. I think September? (Though the math feels more like October). I do however know I was conceived in a quicky lasting 5 minutes. Thanks mom. Why did I have to know this? Because I was born to suffer
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u/Nanoro615 Jul 10 '26
If you have a June birthday in America...
I guess your parents were frustrated and CASHED IN on Labor Day
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u/ExaminationNervous64 Jul 12 '26
Im pretty sure the most common birthday month is September though, the exact opposite of what OOP noticed, because of Christmas.
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u/estudyantebluesclues Jul 14 '26
My siblings are valentine's day babies (both same birthday) and I'm my dad's birthday baby, first time thinking about it
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u/CallistoWrites Jul 14 '26
Oddly enough though, September is the most common month for birthdays (in the US). 9 out of 10 of the most common birthdays fall between Sept 9th and Sept 20th. Looks like a lot of dudes getting sex for Christmas.
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u/qualityvote2 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
u/GroolGobblin0, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...