Adopted Woman Googles Her Name at the age of 21 and Finds It at the Top of a Missing People Ads
A young woman’s life drastically changed after discovering who she was. She became curious and found out her real identity while about to leave her parents’ home.
TikToker Aiesha Myricks revealed a shocking part of her life on her account in October 2023. She shared a video replying to a fellow TikTok user named Susi.
In Susi’s social upload, she said that it might be bizarre that she had never liked store-bought pesto. Aiesha responded to her video with her own life story.
“Oh my god, Susi, that is so crazy. That reminds me of the time I was moving out of my parents’ house when I was 21, and I was cleaning out the closet, and I found a Social Security card in the crevice of the closet that had my name on it, but it really wasn’t my name,” Aiesha revealed.
@aieshamyricks #stitch with @Susi the day I found my name in a missing person’s ad I was at work. Life is so crazy 😄 #pesto #adoption #storytime #NYC ♬ original sound – Aiesha Myricks
She explained that her name was misspelled and the last name on the card was unrecognizable. Aiesha said she asked her mother about it before revealing that she was adopted when she was in second grade.
Moreover, prior to that, she had been in foster care but with the same family. “And the name that I knew that I was born with that was on my birth certificate was not this name. And it also wasn’t the name that my name was changed to,” she said.
Aiesha divulged it was a third arbitrary name she had never heard of before. As for her mom, she told her that it was a typo and threw the card away, telling her she should forget about it because it was a mistake.
However, Aiesha never forgot about the Social Security card. It made her even more curious about her identity, especially after she got pregnant with a baby girl about a year and a half later.
Aiesha wondered what she would tell her child about their lineage history. All she knew was that she was born in New York City and grew up in Queens.
One day, while at her retail job in Bushwick, Aiesha decided to Google herself towards the end of her shift. She recounted what she discovered upon her online search:
“I Googled that name, and the first search that came up was a missing person’s ad. And it had my name at the top. So, it was a forum archived from 1997.”
@aieshamyricks Replying to @Kassi Part 3. #adoption #fostercare #nyc #storytime ♬ original sound – Aiesha Myricks
She said it was from people looking for their missing kids around NYC. They could post information about the children, and if anyone comes across them, they could contact them if they have any leads.
Aiesha disclosed the person who posted the ad went by the name of Chante, who revealed specific details, including when and where she was born and where she briefly lived around that period after birth.
At that moment, she could feel that the individual looking for her knew her. Aiesha, who was seven months pregnant then, was overwhelmed with emotions.
@aieshamyricks Replying to @Ali ♬ original sound – Aiesha Myricks
She contacted the person, sent her phone number, and said she was the missing child in the ad. Several minutes later, the person emailed her back, and she recalled him asking:
“‘Are you sure? Hi, my name is Chante, and I’m your brother. I’ve been looking for you your entire life. I’m going to call you soon. I’m so happy I found you.'”
Aiesha was elated after learning she had a brother who had been looking for her since 1997. She thought to herself, “How old is he? He must be grown.” While asking herself many questions, she received a phone call that made her even more emotional.
She fumbled before answering it, and once she did, she heard a woman on the other end of the call, who also teared up. “And she goes, ‘Aiesha, God is good. I’m your mother. I’ve been looking for you your whole life,'” Aiesha remembered while admitting, “That was one of the craziest days of my life.” A few days later, Aiesha updated her followers following the revelations. Initially, someone had expressed curiosity concerning the legal adoption and a missing person’s post online, asking whether her birth mother was involved. But Aiesha explained that it was from her sibling, who had never met her but knew she had been adopted. Their mom did not raise him either.
Fortunately, she eventually met up with their biological parent, Linda, in Grand Central Station days later and brought along her fiancé. She was still pregnant then.
Aiesha admitted being “nervous” about the meet-up because she had questions for Linda. She asked her where she had been the whole time, and Linda told her she was either in jail or Harlem.
Linda did not know how to contact her child and did not have the resources for a stable life either. She had been battling with addiction and had run-ins with the law. Aiesha asked her about the name on the Social Security card, and she told her she had many warrants of arrest for her, so she had multiple identities.
That name was one of her identities, so the authorities discovered it was not Aiesha’s last name. According to Aiesha, people assumed that her adoptive mother kidnapped her; hence, she felt compelled to clear the confusion about the name.
“My adoptive mother was trying to protect me from that, hence why my name was changed. […] She did all of this to keep me safe. And I’m thankful,” said Aiesha.
Sadly, Linda passed away a year and a half after they met. They had got together several times before she died, and Aiesha is grateful that they were able to do that. She kept in touch with her brother Chante and revealed they still communicate on Facebook. After talking with her sibling, Aiesha also learned that she has a sister named Thea, who had been living in the Lower East Side of Manhattan the entire time. Chante reached out to Thea and told her he was her brother and she had another sibling, too. Thea contacted Aiesha on Facebook, and that was when they reconnected. In December 2023, Aiesha said she and Thea had been living together for two months.
They have been bonding more over their now-late mother and revealed her picture on TikTok. In the fifth part of her documented journey, Aiesha shared a childhood photo of her sitting on her mom’s lap and divulged Chante had sent it to her.
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