Tag: adoption
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My Adoption Journey – 2
It’s been almost six months since I wrote the first post about my adoption journey. The idea back then was that I would write more regularly about my experience as I try to make time to write my dream novel. Maybe one of these days I’ll find enough discipline and motivation to actually do that.…
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Where Are You From?
I’ve started following another blog by adoptees – Land of Gazillion Adoptees. It is seemingly more organized and purposeful site than most of the others that I’ve come across. Today, I read one of their recent postings about the question people ask – “Where Are You From?”. I know that I’ve written a poem somewhere…
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More Adoption Links
This weekend, I’ve been looking at some more adoption links found on a couple of new sites that I started following. The web presence is growing and growing…. The links are also on the right side under ‘Adoptees/Adoption’. The Declassified Adoptee (http://www.declassifiedadoptee.com) Production not Reproduction – Open Adoption Blogs (http://www.productionnotreproduction.com/p/open-adoption-blogs.html) Article on literature of adoption…
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“You’re lucky, you were chosen…”
As much as I appreciate the sentiment behind these words, they still require me to hold back anger and to clam up in sharing more about me as an adoptee. First of all, to say I’m lucky because my birth family gave me up or because I finally found a loving home is a bit…
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Is anyone else out there?
A friend of mine wrote a really lovely post on his blog about his struggle with depression. As a fellow sufferer of bouts of depression and dealing with my own “un-labeled” or self-diagnosed bipolar I or preferably called “ups and downs”, I really appreciate it when I find people sharing their own stories. Today my…
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The Adoption Diaries
While I was reading a New York Times article, I saw a link to a story on an abused adopted daughter. Of course, I had to click on it. The article is interesting, but am more interested in the section of adoption diaries. Though I haven’t explored it thoroughly, I wonder if all the stories…
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New documentary on young adoptees
Thanks again to 8Asians, this trailer for a documentary on young adopted girls – Somewhere Between – looks interesting. It is nice to see/hear the voices of young adoptees and those from other countries. What is striking is that the issues and thoughts are the same as those I am familiar with – a sign…
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My Adoption Journey – 1
I have decided to start a new series of posts related directly to my adoption experience. This is mostly because I have started to delve more and more into the world of adoptees who are starting to express themselves about this whole being adopted thing – especially Korean-American adoptees. I know that some are reading,…
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Thoughts on Koreans
A while back I read this post on 8Asians and thought about how Koreans love emotional drama – more so than many of the other countries I have visited. Koreans and Japanese are often compared, but I always find Japanese people too stoic and though their tv dramas attempted to be dramatically emotional, it was…
