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by lejohnq 1180 days ago
This sounds awful. I honestly don’t know my mom’s birthday and perhaps interestingly she doesn’t technically know it either. Papers lost (and probably made up) multiple times when her family fled her home and then country before ending up here.

And she definitely has a birthday on her driver’s license now, but I think she might have to look at it to make sure she got it right.

2 comments

Sounds pretty certain that you would never be asked this question, since it is not a matter of public record (or at least, not the public records these systems tend to use)
On a long enough time line, we probably all don't know our own birthday, if still alive....
I stopped keeping track after 21. I have no idea how old I am as I don’t really celebrate my birthday. All I know for sure is that I turned 21 over ten years ago…
I'm sure there are plenty of people refugeed young that don't know.