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La génétique compte aussi ! Croyez-moi, je suis issu d’un don de sperme ! | Jean Meyer | TEDxReims


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good evening my name and jean meyer and there is
37 years old I was conceived at the hospital necker
an anonymous donation of sperm and figure
not the only one this design mode has helped
many infertile couples
we owe him nearly 80 thousand births
since the late 70s is roughly
modo one in three are done say that
statistically tonight among you there
has between two to three people who
have also benefited from a donation
anonymous sperm and this without knowing it
it still ignores because it is estimated
than roughly 10% of children
from artificial insemination
with a donor would have been informed
which means that not only do they not
do not know their biological father
but in addition they are the heart and
center in family secret and that can
to be anyone it may be your
neighbor from left to right
this gentleman who scratch their heads or
simply you and I know
exactly what you’re doing
to tell you but anything me it’s
impossible I look too much like my father
I thought the same thing too I
looks like my dad but the cecos in
big help the sperm banks to the
French practice what’s called the
similarly the same is what
basically it’s finding a donor who
physically resembles the sterile father
story of feeding or at least
to maintain and allow secrecy
which means that among you tonight
to whom we hope that different from
their parents and who still do not know
and how important in the end will tell me
you our father and our father the one who
has changed our layers the one who has us
told a story the night before us
asleep
who helped us do our
homework taught us how to ride a bike
be new leases no matter if we do not
do not exactly share the same genes
yeah my dad and my dad on it
no doubt I call I have a mother but
I also have a parent and I know
today that my conscience my
personality my behavior also have
been easy
shaped by not my genetic code
to believe that we are leaves
white at birth is a lure
all parents who have more than one
child here tonight will tell you we are
with different personalities from
different behaviors of preferences
different sexual differences
which are perceptible already in utero
so indeed our education our
environment have made us beings
humans we are but not
only
we know today that the transmission
genetics is not just limited
to the physical traits that our young people are
also responsible in part anyway
of our intelligence our personality
because we are conscientious
extroverted tend to say ti vct who
whether we are in the morning or in the evening and
via epigenetics we also know that
trauma can be sometimes
transgenerational that injury
psychological little grandpa little to our
unknowingly also affected a personality
having a story that I love about it
on the impact of young people is that of
oscar store and jack iuf then if you
know but but jack and at the Oscars
these are two separate twins at the
oscar birth was sent in a
Catholic family and Nazis he will join
even later the youths
Hitler
while Jack was brought to him by the
Jewish families in Trinidad and well they
were reunited the adults they have
fascinated the geneticist psychologists and
neuroscientist of the time then
certainly their course could not be
more diametrically opposed and even though
you can imagine that a little bit tonight
Jack and the Oscars have never and
to campaign for the same political party
was surprisingly similar every
two were null in math and strong in
sport both had the same
voice intonations and the same approach
both on the day of their meeting
was dressed the same way with
a small blue blouse with epaulets
both shoot before and
after going to the toilet
both started their novels by
the end is both worshiped in the morning
have breakfast a slice of bread
cheese dip it in their coffee
no it’s maybe the German side
and finally both of them worshiped doing
pretending to sneeze into lifts
bandaged story to startle everything
the world the same culinary tastes has
same way to walk the same
voice intonations same jokes the case
of jack and oscar is not at all isolated
all the psychological tests show
similarities in twins
gentlemen brothers also me who am
born of an anonymous gift I who do not know
neither my parent nor my origins
me who learned from my mother’s mouth
in full divorce my parents at the age of
10 years old and at two in the morning that my
father is not my father me who finally
facing the family doctor can
answer the very simple question of
its your family history that
am I from which culture of what
line of Wales country to which belongs
this chin this French you move sounded and
most important information for a
hypochondriac
what are these antecedents
family
I needed to know
I wanted to know and this day my mother
told me the truth about the design
and his needs become even more
Pregnant day myself I became
dad
so with the arrival of the dna tests
recreational that can be purchased for
a few dozen dollars on
Internet
today I threw myself on
the occasion and I sent a little
from saliva to nothing private companies
Americans hoping to be able to
maybe found a half brother or a
half-sister maybe a cousin I know
nothing three years later I received my
results and these sites are pretty good
does not want to promote it
not only will they show you a
a geographical origin of your origins
north of europe mediterranean basin
etc.
but in addition they will put you in
relationship with other users of the
site who shares who we connected that
who go to those who are connected to you
genetically actually me who grew up
single son and who always dreamed of having
a biological siblings I got
thrown on it’s on these results and has
unfortunately no half brother paste
half sister not two cousins
siblings and even less two parents
at the dna match my genetic parent the
nearest was an old lady of 75
years of connecticut in the united states with
which I shared 0.6 percent of dien
I was a little disappointed in fact there the
search for his parent
it’s a lot like the lottery sealed
are weak but we still believe in a
little bit then to understand these
results and also to know if the law
a day in France was going to change I
decided to join an association that
gathers the adults from the donation
anonymous sperm I learned a lot
of things jade one that I do not have everything
alone in this quest of searching
of self and two that 0.6 percent but
it was not bad in fact and it could
even led with a lot of luck to my
parent
so we searched together he went away
followed a biology survey that
multi-day genealogy and I
can you tell that in less than 48 hours
I found my great grandfather
paternal biological thanks among others
at the archives of ellis island so and that
that but also in northern europe
and in the deep end of the dark web and in
less than 72 hours I will find
with certainty my biological grandfather
a man who had three older sons
today between 65 and 71 years old one
of them could only be his sire
I was so close at the same time so far
how to identify it
among his three brothers
and even if I came in how did the contact
and none of them had an address
e-mail or was even on the networks
social
and then what words to use hi voila
I know that 37 years ago roughly a
heap had to do a test to back nimes beat
voice knows not so anonymous then that of the
So I preferred to try to
contact their children that they were
maybe closer and same age than
me and so I looked for someone to have
the same surname on the networks
social and who looks a little like me
I found someone recall the
Nicolas to preserve his anonymity
evening and so I contacted in a way
very simple i say hello nicolas i
my name is jean and I think we
have the same biological grandfather
as much to tell you that it’s not the kind
message that leaves completely
indifferent
but it’s not necessarily the kind of
message to which we replied I had
a lot of luck because he got me
answered we quickly called first
explained that in baby did not have
cheated grandma
and we have a little bit detailed
story and then he explained to me
that he was a little bit surprised because
that his father had never talked to him about a
turkey and so it was possible that
if uncle the facts he still
wanted to know so he did a dna test
and later make him also received
his results on the same site and mom
closest genetic parents is
suddenly dropped from 0.6 percent
this year-old girl in the connecticut
that I still thank 30%
montoni brothers now know a half
brother and even a half sister me who have
grown son inc the following weekend he
spoke to his mother about his sister to his
father finally has family so much
to tell you that the surprise was great
but apart from nicolas who I had
long discussed on the phone
none of them wanted me
meet or talk to me and it’s a bit
disappointing but it’s not very
serious because now
I had a name I had a country of origin
it’s not France I had a culture
I had a story and I had
finally these previous sessions
family looking for time and then
the most important information
I know that my spawner 70 years ago he
always his hair
a few weeks later I
met for the first time in my
life my half brother nicolas
but did not come alone with her
son and his wife but also with his
sister and her mother and father and no
only after the shock of the announced
he wanted to meet me but in
the more they came with photos
history writings a family
adorable united we stayed in touch
I expect to see myself often I would like
better represent my son the
feelings that I felt at that moment
there is absolutely indescribable it is
unix belongs to the team and I would have
hard to transcribe them tonight by
against things are very clear I
did not look for a father to look for my
origins and I found my father and my
father and this obvious became
much easier to kiss
after this discovery I have a father and
a mother
but now I have a story a
little bit more complete thanks to my
breeder gt
sweat built by three people and this
evening I want to thank them as
that being human we tend to
make boxes in which everything
tidy everything simplify life it’s not
simple is a big mess and for
tens of thousands of French people including
you may be part of it without even
the knowledge
it’s a lot more complicated than that
it’s offbeat thank you
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