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8 years ago @ http://www.adopteerest... - Adoptees: It\'s Not Yo... · 1 reply · +1 points

My Dear Deanna, when you get as old as me you might find it becomes easier. The grief is there, the losses are real but we deal with it differently. Maybe we deal with it more philosophically - 'in the midst of life etc' Hope the dark cloud shifts for you soon. <3

10 years ago @ - I Am Thankful for Adop... · 0 replies · +1 points

Perhaps if you were adult adoptees who have suffered years of expectations about being grateful for being adopted you might see and feel it differently. That expectation is disempowering, stigmatising and makes us 'less than'. Adoption has so often been about providing children to make adults into parents perhaps it is they who should be grateful! Good to see some discussion happening!

10 years ago @ The Declassified Adoptee - Dear Students and Soci... · 1 reply · +1 points

As an adoptee for over 70 years and a SW who facilitated the reunions of adoptees with their biological parents, usually mothers, an activist and a believer in the rights of children, I am horrified to see that we have progressed so little in placing children at the centre of decisions. While adoption is big business and the needs and requirements of adults placed first adoptees will always be commodified.

10 years ago @ - Conversations With My ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Interesting when our kids are more mature than we are!

10 years ago @ - Why I Find #ShoutYourA... · 0 replies · +4 points

Couldn't agree more. No adoptee should ever be used in this way and how sick adult adoptees are of being spoken for and told what to say!

10 years ago @ http://www.adopteerest... - No, I Will Not Pretty-... · 0 replies · +1 points

Some of us were abandoned too or foundlings. These words tell our truth and we'll keep telling it. The more you tell us not, to the louder we'll have to be.

10 years ago @ http://www.adopteerest... - Reunited Korean Americ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you Mila for all this.

11 years ago @ http://www.adopteerest... - Why Adoptee and Restor... · 0 replies · +1 points

Great post!! Lovely to see your first photo is of one of my favourite tiny Aussie towns- Silverton.

11 years ago @ http://www.adopteerest... - My Second DNA Test and... · 0 replies · +1 points

"Life isn't fair" but for adoptees it is what it is we usually can't afford to go round thinking things aren't fair because that way lies bitterness, non-acceptance and being stuck a victim. None of those fit Deanna!

11 years ago @ Laura Dennis Blog - Participate in #Flipth... · 0 replies · +4 points

I love Jeanette Winterson's account of the adopted life and also Judith Lucy's.

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