In fact, according to the 12ers the Imams only told a select few that they are the 12 divinely appointed. So in their lifetime the public supposedly had no clue they are 6th imam or the 7th imam. Today when a 12er reveals this to us, we become Nawasib for not accepting it.
Maybe you should give up this identity you are fighting to protect, be it yours or your group, but embark on a journey to find the truth!
You keep saying according to 12vers, but what you really mean, is according to some Twelvers. It doesn't matter how "big" the scholars who say this are, the truth is, you have to investigate the Quran and ahadith independently and see what contradicts Quran and what doesn't.
It doesn't matter even if all 12vers said this, you still have to independently investigate Quran and ahadith with reason.
There are ahadith that show the opposite to Taqiya, that show Imams were very public about their Imammate, and there is many with authentics I've seen.
Taqiya as in Imams hidding their position as opposed to followers hiding their faith, I have not seen much support!
Quran and Ahlulbayt go together, so Imams would essentially have to hide the teachings of Quran from the masses to hide away their Imammate.
All reasoning, Quran and most of our ahadith show they strove to manifest it.
There is no doubt going to be fabrications from the hidden and manifest Illuminati in all ages. They are the killers of PRophets and the causers of all revealed books to become hidden from society.
They are the reason of corruption streaming in religion till this day.
There are ahadith from Imams about the leaders of disbelief and the Shayateen coming down to them, there are hadiths about how Shaytan doesn't stop sending his forces in garbs of Shiites and narrating lies.
This is a given.
Yes seeing who is trustworthy is important, but we can't rely on the people who attempted to do that as if they knew people and knew exactly who everyone was.
They maybe wrong about people who they deemed either liar or weak or truthful or reliable.