We are the only people who have no right to know where we come from and it’s so fucked up. No right to know whether we’re adopted unless some third party decides to tell us. No right to determine our fate from birth. It sucks.
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This is a great question I'll answer in a thread. If I miss any details hopefully someone else will chime in (1/x)
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Having a doctor that keeps asking those questions is a specific kind of shitty
A birth certificate can only tell you who your birth mother is. We’re all dependent upon how much individuals choose to share to get the whole story. 1/
Which I say to note there’s some universality in the incomplete knowledge
But I grew up w/o a sense of absence b/c I saw many of my mother’s traits in me. A privilege. 2/2
Or is it simply a matter of my speaking at all that was unacceptable? That’s a defendable position by the way. Just own that that’s what you mean. It will garner you the respect of an internet rando!
It was very odd to find out at age 51 that you've been celebrating the wrong bday.