Adulting While Adopted

Just a girl trying to thrive at life as an adult adoptee.

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Luckaster (I made it up…) https://t.co/FMNZaNh9Hv

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…but what are you feeling? https://t.co/qdGldyHYko

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Self pleasure, I mean esteem… (no,pleasure) https://t.co/jovGLImEvz

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Playing. https://t.co/IgMKs1TZjM

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good grief https://t.co/E8yjUAljgU

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Born With a Job https://t.co/GCV1XjeyxM

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@lavozdelhijo My Spanish isn't perfect but I think I understand it...it's beautiful ❤️

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@Lostfoundadopt1 @TLC I'm terrified of contacting family that doesn't know I exist. With that being said, my father is a mystery man from a party so 🤷🏾‍♀️

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@iamadopted

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I spent today thinking about the ways I'm like my biological mom and wishing that we had relationship. I spent today with my adoptive thinking about how different we are. Neither one of them has any idea of the war in my head, the pain in my heart.

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Today’s thoughts… https://t.co/1lZdahnEez

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Not simply an event
“Adoption is a lifelong process which has to be integrated in different ways at different points in the lives of birthparents and adoptive parents”. -Jeanne Warren Lindsay, Open Adoption: A Caring Option -May the Circle be unbroken, by Lynn C. Franklin.

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@sidman777 @instantfamily @markwahlberg please FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD AND TRUE educate yourself about the trauma of adoption BEFORE rushing out to adopt a child like they are a puppy from a shelter. PLEASE. I'd be more than willing to share any and everything I know... #adoptee #iamadopted

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A branch needs a tree and a tree without roots will die...
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@gracepinghua @chemcoco I'll never forget the first time that I saw my birthdate on an official document. I almost cried because I thought for sure that my mom had just made it up...like changing my name.

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new blog post...

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Why does it matter?? https://t.co/jqbmts7WRX

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Why does it matter?? https://t.co/jqbmts7WRX

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@SnavelyBrent

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In a heated FB discussion about adoption (duh) someone was angry with me and others for suggesting that international adoptions are often unethical and more closely related to human trafficking - his children recently adopted and "orphan" from Africa. This

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'Brother Jeff, as a fellow United Methodist, I call upon you to repent.' Jeff Sessions branded two pastors who interrupted him as hecklers.

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For a "better life"; and to satisfy your desires whatever they may be. BUT it's not ok for those same children to legally come to our country as a whole family unit to seek asylum as a means of obtaining that SAME "better life"?

Please help me understand 🤷🏾‍♀️

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same person was angry with me for suggesting that we find a better use of $$ than to send troops to the border over asylum seekers.

So help me understand this: it's ok to buy "poor and abandoned" children from impoverished countries and bring them to USA