Tag: adoptee pain
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Negative emotions are okay
It hurts. It really really hurts that I was adopted. It hurts that I was the only one of my mother’s children that was discarded. It really hurts that I never knew my Mummy. That I never even knew her name, that I never even got to meet her when I was a child. It…
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I have to believe
I have to believe my mummy saw me, held me, loved me and said goodbye. I have to. I can see her holding me, my tiny hand is wrapped around one of her fingers. She is gazing down at me, she thinks I am beautiful. My little shock of wavy black hair, my porcelain white…
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The sexually abused adoptee
I wonder, if, when my Mummy left me in the care of the hospital, and ultimately the social workers who worked for The Department of Social Welfare – Government run department, who had assured her, her baby would be going to only the best of homes, she would have ever have dreamed she was actually…
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Parents and Adopters ..there is a difference
I find it interesting, as a closed adoptee, that I had no photos displayed in my home, and never have, of my adopters, until extremely recently. A few months ago, I made a small collage of old family photos of when I was a child, happy memory photos, before I grew up and closed adoption…
Adoption is No Fairytale 