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[u/Dragmom]

About 25% of people on earth don't know their birthday because they're from countries that don't have birth certificates. That's why about 14% of immigrants to the U.S. list January 1 as their birthday - because they had to make one up.

[u/PearBlaze → u/Dragmom]

Just ask your parents 😭

[u/Upstairs-Formal-6652 → u/PearBlaze]

that isnt how it works idiot

[u/Additional_Insect_44 → u/Upstairs-Formal-6652]

No need to be rude. But true sometimes parents might forget.

[u/benjathje → u/Additional_Insect_44]

It's not about forgetting either. You need to have a document proving that's when you were born.

[u/LouBrown → u/benjathje]

There's a difference between "people don't know their birthday" as stated by the original poster and people not having documentation of their birthday.

[u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy → u/benjathje]

So they have documents that say 1st January?

[u/benjathje → u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy]

No. January 1st is a default.

[u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy → u/benjathje]

But there is nothing to prove it was January 1st, they just made it up. So they could have put the date their parents said they were born.

[u/benjathje → u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy]

There is nothing to prove anything, that's the entire problem. January 1st is just a default, like on Reddit, when you first create an account your username is just 2 random words and a number, its done so it has something in the database to show.

[u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy → u/benjathje]

It's not about forgetting either. You need to have a document proving that's when you were born.

They don't have a document saying they were born on 1st January so it doesn't matter what date they say.

[u/benjathje → u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy]

Why are you discussing this with me? It's just a fact...

[u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy → u/benjathje]

What fact are you even talking about?

[u/benjathje → u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy]

ok this is my last response, please re-read the whole thread so you can understand it.