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A 🧵 for my non-adopted friends: If a person talks about adoption in a negative way, please don’t dismiss it with a tale of your mailman’s sister’s neighbor’s daughter who had a “good experience”.

She is me.

And while I had a “good experience”, I am not ok for it. 1/
How many people do you know that will openly talk about their trauma with you? Adoptees are particularly good at keeping on a happy face because we’ve been asked to play pretend our entire lives. What you see on the surface in no way means there is not a war raging inside us. 2/
National Adoption Awareness Month, #NAAM, is November. Please let the #adoptees in your life know that you’re an ally and recognize the complexity that adoption brings beyond the publicly accepted ☀️ and 🌈 narrative. 3/
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