What We Gain When Adoptees Tell Their Stories

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2. Would you ask that same question to someone from another group, e.g. LGBTQ, racial or religious?

Or are you just trying to add a new one to the list:

*Well, you could have ended up in a dumpster
* You could have been aborted!
* At least you got parents who loved and wanted you!
* I wish I had been adopted
* Stop focusing on the negative and focus on the positive
* Stop living in the past!
* I'm sure you had a much better life as an adoptee
* My cousin's best friend's sister's niece doesn't feel that way!
* There are worse things in life than being adopted
*Are there statistics showing the stories of adoptees are different than anyone else?


Do you need statistics to know that I am not entitled to my own birth certificate? Do you need statistics to know that the birth certificate that I have been issued is a lie~completely legal big fat lie? Do you need statistics to know that my mother was sent away to a maternity home and forced to relinquish me? What about my story do I need statistics for?