[...] He contacted the reporter to arrange to offer a different view — which apparently ended badly, in a manner he’ll hopefully describe soon. Read the whole thing. It’s angry. But as I’ve said before, adoptees have no obligation to make adoptive parents feel good about adoption. [...]

[...] blogged previously about the social pressure in the adoption community and society at large for people — and especially adoptees — to portray international and transracial [...]

Oh, I remember so many times as a child – and even to this day – when others (excluding family and close friends) wouldn’t so much ask me how it felt to be adopted, but rather told me. Yes, I am grateful for the many blessings in my life today, but the range of my feelings and emotions about being an adoptee reach far beyond only gratitude or feeling “lucky”.

I appreciate the honesty in this post and for the acknowledgement that adoption does indeed hold a myriad of complexities and paradoxes throughout the experience for many, many of us adoptees.