Flip The Script~ Adoptees want to be heard among the clatter of national adoption month

[me b zola]

5. Although I respect and identify with all of these women, Rosita's coment really summs it up for me

The validation that I found in the adoptee rights community was life saving. I was suicidal in my youth, from about 10 yrs old till about 16 when I became pregnant. My life as a young woman was a different type of suicidal, some of you may identify with this. I was made to feel as though I was the only adoptee to feel the way that I did, which was simply to know that I had family out there and that I was genetically connected to people that I was not allowed to know. I have since come to consider this as psychic mutilation, the act of cutting out a part of you that can not be seen, but is so jealously hated by others.

Adoptees who are reading this, you are not alone. Your thoughts and feelings do not make you weird, the circumstance that you were put in is weird. Your thoughts and feelings are valid, and you are more normal than you know.