“I’m angry that I had to be grateful for something that is so simple and that everyone else just takes for granted.”
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We are looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones at the AFFCNY Conference where I will be giving my presentation SEARCHING THROUGH STORY: Freedom, Fantasy and the Adoptee Imagination on May 7th!
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We are looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones at the AFFCNY Conference where Suzanne will be giving her presentation SEARCHING THROUGH STORY: Freedom, Fantasy and the Adoptee Imagination on May 7th!
Sign up now!
affcny.org/about/what-w...
#AdopteeVoices @affcny.bsky.social
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Update: I watched the hot mess of a movie that is Paranormal Adoption and delved into its problematic #adoption tropes in my latest blog post. I invite you to check it out!
#adoptee #adopteevoices #adopteesky
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"...it's a very specific date, February 27, 2001. And if you were 18 on that date, you don't have the benefits of current law, which would make you an automatic citizen." - Gregory Luce
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#adopteevoices
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My wife is searching for anyone with Lenca heritage from Honduras, as she is likely Lenca and was taken from there as an infant.
#adopteevoices #adoptee #adoption #tria
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Responding with “I wish I’d been adopted” to an adoptee’s post about their trauma is just another way to silence survivors and negate our pain.
#adopteevoices #adoptionistrauma
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A year ago I was getting ready to take the trip of my life to meet my mother and my family. I was excited but scared. It ended up being more life changing than I could’ve ever imagined.
#adoption #adoptee #ghostkingdom #adopteevoices #adoptionistrauma
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The way it works is: if I add your account to the feed, then any of your posts containing hashtags like #adoption #adoptee #adopteesky #adopteevoices or the 🥚 symbol will go into the feed. Otherwise they won’t. Lmk if you’d like to be added!
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One thing I hear adoptees say a lot that definitely resonates with me is that their childhoods were lonely.
#adoptionistrauma #adopteevoices
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It’s the adoptee’s job to make everyone else feel better about the adoptee’s trauma.
#adopteevoices
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If you're an adoptee who hasn't found your people, DM me. I'll do my best to get you connected! 🥚
#ThisIsWho #BlackAndAdopted #TransnationalAdoptee #AdopteeVoices
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Big News! Myth of the Ghost Kingdom, which I scored, is now streaming free for Amazon Prime members.
If you have Prime, you can watch it tonight.
#MythOfTheGhostKingdom #PrimeVideo #LateDiscoveryAdoptee #AdoptionStories #AdopteeVoices
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Most people don’t question adoption.
Not because the system is beyond scrutiny—
but because questioning it comes at a cost.
Read here:
thoughtlessdel.substack.com/p/why-adopti...
#AdoptionReform #SystemicJustice #Identity #HumanRights #InstitutionalPower #AdopteeVoices
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What adoption does for too many is permanently trap them in a family they don’t belong with. #adopteevoices
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I'm reading/watching/listening to adoptee content and I'd like to hear from more marginalized voices- please drop your recommendations in the comments 🙏
#adopteevoices #adoption #adoptee
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I've started writing again under a new moniker. My goal is to talk about my life + adoption, religion, Trauma and estrangement through the lens of being an adoptee. Too many people are talking for us and not listening to us.
#adopteevoices #adoption #estrangement
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When I hear adopters say how selfless the birth mother was to give her child a better life, I always think - why weren’t you selfless and help her so her child and her could stay together and both have a better life. #adopteevoices
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It has taken me 50 years to learn that I'm not here for other people. I fear I will be learning this lesson for the rest of my life.
#adopteevoices #adoption
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I hurt myself, my children, and my mother with a misplaced sense of responsibility to my adoptive family that ended up lying to me my whole life. If you’re an adoptee, your adoptive family should be the first people making sure you know your family and identity. #adopteevoices
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Most people engaged privately — agreed quietly — but rarely aligned publicly. That’s not coincidence. It’s how soft power functions inside bureaucratic systems.
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#AdoptionReform #InstitutionalPower #SystemsThinking #AdopteeVoices #SoftPower #PublicIntel
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Adoption isn’t just a personal story. It’s a structural rupture.
Infant separation imprints at the nervous system level. Sealed records fracture identity. Rescue narratives protect institutions.
Adoptees are the diagnostic
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#AdopteeVoices #AdoptionReform
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“This year, I had to process losing two families: the one I thought I had and the one I never had.”
#adoptionistrauma #adopteevoices #family
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“One person did know I was adopted that wasn’t supposed to know, and she’s the person who called me that day.”
People say it’s not my secret to tell but it’s not your secret to keep if it’s something that person has a right to know.
#adopteevoices #liesareabuse
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Talking about protecting children from abusive parents and talking about adoption are two different things. Children should be protected from abusive parents but adoption is not needed to do that and many children are abused by adoptive parents.
#adoption #adopteevoices
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We are all donor conceived. We are all here because two people’s genetics created us. Who that donor is may not matter to the people on a ‘journey’ to become parents but it matters a lot to the human being created. The ‘donation’ is to the human being - not the parents. #adopteevoices
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