As a newborn, your mother is taken away and a new woman and family put in her place. Years later you discover that you’ve been living with strangers and your mother and family are out there somewhere and you’re supposed to be grateful. That’s being a late discovery adoptee. #latediscoveryadoptee

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

My Adoption Journey As A Late Discovery Adoptee I can’t describe how devastating and traumatic it is to not only learn you are adopted, but also that you’ve been lied to your whole life.

Not telling a person they are adopted is the only child abuse people are expected to be grateful for.

#adopteevoices #latediscoveryadoptee

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My Adoption Journey As A Late Discovery Adoptee I can’t describe how devastating and traumatic it is to not only learn you are adopted, but also that you’ve been lied to your whole life.

Two phone calls changed my life. The first one said to ask my parents what lie they’d told me for 20 years. The next call was 38 years later - it was my mother…
#adoptionstory #latediscoveryadoptee #adopteevoices
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My Adoption Journey As A Late Discovery Adoptee I can’t describe how devastating and traumatic it is to not only learn you are adopted, but also that you’ve been lied to your whole life.

“You shall not lie” taught so many parents lying to their adopted child about the most important thing…
#adopteevoices #adoption #latediscoveryadoptee

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Inside The Powerful Family Drama MYTH OF THE GHOST KINGDOM with Writer/Director Jason Mullis At first glance, the term “ghost kingdom” may mean a massive community of roaming apparitions or the name of a supernatural fantasy novel…

First in a two-part series on the incredible, award-winning family drama MYTH OF THE GHOST KINGDOM: #indiefilm #filmmaking #familydrama #drama #adoption #latediscoveryadoptee
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My Adoption Journey As A Late Discovery Adoptee I can’t describe how devastating and traumatic it is to not only learn you are adopted, but also that you’ve been lied to your whole life.

I’ve always had June 21st memorized as my aunt’s birthday but she was an adoptive aunt. Today is actually my uncle’s birthday that I didn’t even know existed and passed away before I found my family.
#adoption #trauma #latediscoveryadoptee

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My Adoption Journey As A Late Discovery Adoptee I can’t describe how devastating and traumatic it is to not only learn you are adopted, but also that you’ve been lied to your whole life.

I found out today that my adoptive parents knew both of my parents’ names my whole life but took those names to their graves. The birth certificate should never be changed so adoptive parents can’t abuse their child by lying to them.
#latediscoveryadoptee #adoption

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My Adoption Journey As A Late Discovery Adoptee I can’t describe how devastating and traumatic it is to not only learn you are adopted, but also that you’ve been lied to your whole life.

New blog about being a late discovery adoptee…
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As a late discovery adoptee, I feel like my whole life has been being a pawn in other people’s games and a puppet in other people’s stories.
#latediscoveryadoptee #adoptee #Adoption

Concealing an adoptee’s identity is not love it’s abuse. It’s not ‘difficult’ for the person lying. It’s convenient. #adoptee #latediscoveryadoptee

Lying to an adoptee is not ‘protecting’ them - it’s manipulation and control.
#latediscoveryadoptee #itsabuse

What does it mean to be a late discovery adoptee? It means your parents were the first people to lie to you.
#latediscoveryadoptee #adopteevoices #adoption

Lying to someone is not love.
Concealing a person’s identity is abuse.
#adopteevoices #latediscoveryadoptee

One of the worse kinds of abuse is manipulating a child’s mind - that’s what lying to a child and not telling them they are adopted is.
#adoptee #latediscoveryadoptee #childabuseawarenessmonth

Why do survivors struggle with feelings of worthlessness? | Quote Of The Day The truth is that you matter. Your dignity and worth are not negotiable.

When people feel like you’re not worth telling the truth to, you feel worthless.
#latediscoveryadoptee #adoptee #trauma
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I’ve had to realize twice in my life that the people I thought loved me only loved how much I loved them - once as a wife and now as an adoptee.
#adoptee #latediscoveryadoptee

Lies don’t ‘protect’ an adoptee - they control them.
#latediscoveryadoptee

Adopted in secrecy: With help from TMCC’s Open Genealogy Lab, Randall Lorenz learned his true birth story—and finally met his biological family Air Force veteran Randall Lorentz happened to meet research librarian Suzanne Malek. “He wanted to know why his DNA results didn’t match his reality,” Malek said. “We soon discovered his pare…

A DNA test taken to learn about health risks led him to discover, at the age of 66, that the parents he grew up with were not his biological parents. He had been adopted. #LateDiscoveryAdoptee #adoptees #GeneticGenealogy

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What does it mean to be a late discovery adoptee? It means your parents were the first people to lie to you.
#latediscoveryadoptee #adopteevoices

Not telling a child they are adopted is abuse. Period.
#latediscoveryadoptee #adoptee

Being a late discovery adoptee is like the obliviate curse from HP - your family has been erased from your existence.
#latediscoveryadoptee #adopteevoices

I am now on Bluseky. This time I plan to have just one account for all my thoughts.
#adoptee #latediscoveryadoptee