What r/Adopted is talking about this week

They give us to any damn body. I'm a Black former foster who is 100 percent against wine people fostering or adopting Black kids. I have my reasons based on lived experiences but also connecting...

I feel so lonely and i have my whole life. my adoptive family tells me that adoption can’t have impacted me because i was adopted at ten months so i don’t even remember it. but i lived in an...

Why are birthdays so hard for adoptees? I was adopted from Russia when I was 2 years old, and I’ve always been somewhat sensitive about my adoption. When I was 13, I came out of the adoption fog...

Long story short: I wished my biological brother a happy birthday on social media and sent him a gift. We built a relationship over the past few years, and I would not say it's perfect, but it's...

Just have to vent that after 5 decades on this planet, I'm SO incredibly tired of the constant dismissal of our lived experience and of our pain. That's all, that's the vent: I'm fed up with the...

All of my life as an adoptee I've felt severe disconnect from my family, no mirroring, constantly adapting to everyone else's needs/ demands, to the point i erased myself and became resentful. My...

Found my sister after all these years, and somehow there was no awkward beginning. Just instant rhythm, same wavelength, same weird little frequency. When we met, there was no strangeness or...

It really bothers me that APs claim that they want to change their child’s name to match their own, and it’s about love and inclusion. If they really wanted to have the same last name as me, why...

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I’ll never meet my birth family, I’ll never know my birth mother or my birth father. I’ll never have a dad. I’ll always be the black sheep of my adopted family. I have no lineage, I am alone....