Beautiful! Another adult adoptee who grew up in an open adoption is speaking. We have so much to learn from open adoption adoptees, I can only hope that more come forward to show that open adoption isn’t the miracle fix to the trauma of adoption. Open adoption is just as hard, as the closed adoption era.

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Logic versus basic human emotion

How can something that makes complete logical sense still hurt so much? This is a constant battle in my mind and has been for most of my life. I knew I was adopted before I had any idea what the word even meant. I knew that it somehow made me different and I knew that I was the only one in the family who was this thing, “adopted.” For the first decade of my life, I thought little of it. I was blissfully unaware of everything being adopted meant. I was simply the youngest daughter in a family of six. I didn’t know that I had gone by a different name for the first month of my life. I didn’t know that my biological mother was a family member and that everyone else in the family knew who she was, but didn’t know when or…

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