Living with an incorrect identity. How do you avoid breaking the law?

Question

Knowingly living with an identity that is incorrect is illegal. However what about when your identity is incorrect, but you have no way of proving your real identity because the information on who you really are does not exist. For example your identity was changed when you were a child by adults before you were old enough to understand. You don't actually know who you really are, or who your parents really were, so you have no way of correcting your incorrect identity. Every passport, driving licence and piece of documentation ever issued has your incorrect identity on it, so there is no trail of paperwork to find your real identity. Everybody who has ever known you or knows you knows you by your incorrect identity. But you know in your own mind that everything is a fabrication, and every time you complete a form or speak to your own family you are telling a lie. It is illegal to knowingly enter incorrect information on to a driving licence application or marriage certificate, but how can you put the correct information on either when you don't know what it is yourself, and even if you did know you don't have any documents to prove it.

Answer 1

Your identity is listed under the name you have legal documents to show as belonging to you.



Just because my parents changed my name when I was a small child does not mean the name I use is not my real name. It's just not my original name. I have a birth certificate a social security card and a driver's licence in my new name, so it is not a false identity. It's a real and legal identity.



But all I can do is explain how names work. I can't pull you out of your fantasy land where you have a whole different alter ego and there has been a massive conspiracy to avoid all documentation of who you really are providing only documentation for who the adults in your life pretend you are.



My daughter's name is Genna Brown on her birth certificate. But that's only because I don't have a birth certificate for her that says her name is really Mary Jones. Maybe Mary Jones is her real identity. Or maybe it's mine. But there's no documentation of it. So I must lie every day and tell people my name is what my parents gave me.



Or maybe my name is what my parents gave me.

Answer 2

I don't know whether this is a genuine case or not, but people on here (Bluezone) who say that people are living in a fantasy land, should show a little bit more empathy. Things like this really do happen, I know that personally! When we live in countries like the US and the UK with our nice little systems and safeguards, we read things like this and think it's always nonsense. The reason we hear of more things like this now is because there are lots of people moving to western countries that were originally from ex soviet countries (full of corruption) where you could buy a passport or a birth certificate pretty easily. I don't mean hooky birth cerificates either, I mean real birth certificates issued by officials of that country. If you were wealthy a payment would be made and you could walk out with a birth certificate that basically says anything you want it to. This can then be used to basically change or re-create a new identity for normally a sinister perpose. This document can then be used abroad to apply for driving licences and anything you can think of, because the initial birth certificate is not a forgery (it's just been issued illegally) no questions will ever be asked. he corruption did not come from the highest levels, so the people at the very top were not even aware of it a lot of the time. It was the people in the passport and registary offices who were often earning very small wages and tempted by large sums of money to issue illegal documents that were the source of the problem. This then leaves the person with the changed identity with lots of problems later in life if they want to correct things. This is not easy to do, epecially if the people who did all this in the first place are now dead and take a lot of information to their graves. So when people mock questions like this because you come from a loving family where things like this can't and don't happen, remember in other, more corrupt countries things like this DO happen, leaving people mentally tortured. Often it's not just that people have a different name, they can have a date of birth that is wrong by years. Example of this is a man (with money) who has an underage girlfriend and the parents of the the young girl are drug addicts and don't care for their child. So she is made to appear 4 or 5 years older than what she really is so no questions are asked and the identity is changed and she is taken abroad. Then you not only have to lie about your name, you have to lie about your age, the longer it goes on the harder it is to go back. IT HAPPENS PEOPLE!

Answer 3

This question was asked before.



If you weren't old enough to understand, how do you know this really happened?



Ask the adults for your real birth certificate.



I don't see there's a problem with living with the identity that you've always known. You didn't break the law, someone else did.

Answer 4

"Knowingly living with an identity that is incorrect is illegal."



No it isnt - you can "assume" any identity you want PROVIDED you dont do it to carry out fraudulent acts.

Answer 5

It is impossible to avoid breaking the law, if one is living with a false identity knowingly and doing so is a crime.

Answer 6

Did you forget your tinfoil hat this morning. Don't worry, the aliens are kindly and won't remove anything you really need.