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Loren is so funny. We love how she uses humor to help people understand what we experience.

Sorry I didn't make it. I had my mind on it but the movie I saw went over the time I expected. I hope to make the next one!

I love me some adoptees!

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I was adopted at 6 weeks from a children's hospital. When my adoptive mother died it tore me apart. After 5 sessions of EMDR nearly a decade later my life has changed radically for the better. We know so much more today than in the 70's, 80's and 90's! Thank you.

I have been following Diana's story for over a decade now. Thank you Diana for sharing your light and story with me and the rest of our greater community.

Mine was a closed adoption in 1960. Tried to contact my biological mother, to no avail.

My twin spent some time with our birth mother, and they committed suicide within 3 months of each other as a result. You are being naive and destructive.

I can’t tell you on a parent who’s already proved irresponsible.

And let me give yall some context on something Social convention and the law dictate that my adopters at will can remove themselves from my birth certificate but I cannot. And not only at fifteen dispite years of trying my best to please her did she tell me that she always felt she had been raising another woman's child but it only took me 4.5 months for me to learn how to please my real 94 year old Grandma with dementia and congestive heart failure and i never truely won Kathys reguard or affection after 33 years of trying and I gave up on her completely when she stood by like a pompus judgemental horses behind and let the state of Florida angela Corey and Judge Gooding tear up my family and toss my children to her. It felt to me like she was making out like although I get pregnant more easily than her she's better than me because she got just handed over with almost no oversight or investigation two generations of my family. So no that poor excuse of a woman NEVER was my mother and never will be my mother.

You really do seem like a nice lady, however how exactly do you expect s couple of covert narcissistists with fertility trauma who believe with every cell of their body that children have to be taught to constantly fight their inherant original sin and wanted and dreamed of a child they could turn into whatever they wanted for ten years to allow someone else's child to be themselves? That is not a realistic possibility THAT is a complete mess. And by the way when I asked too many questions at 9 ten years old I was used by the corrupt social worker called Delores Delgadeo to manipulate a young mother in the hospital into giving up her baby i didn't not know that was what really happened that day until I found out on my 42nd birthday that me ànd another one of Delores clients purchases were taken to st pauls hospital to see where we were born and i found out that I was born at the hospital Kennedy finnished dying at and while we were asked to visit a woman there to try and make her "feel" better. I have always enjoyed making anyone feel better if I feel they don't deserve to feel bad or if I feel moved to do so. So I am both very angry and miserable about that one at 45 five years old. I wish to apologize to that mamma and her baby and that other little girl for being an idiot. I am sorry.

They were NEVER my parents and they WILL never be my parents. She told me when I was 15 that she always felt that she had been raising another woman's child.

I appreciate the empathy you show that I have NEVER seen out of an adopter but you are NOT a mother to anyone you did not make

Adoption happy hour is an oxymoron

Wonderful insights!

It is interesting that his "brother" who took the DNA test never told him at the time that he knew they were not genetically related. That shows a very dysfunctional family

Would you have Nancy’s contact? Or could you give her mine? I would love to translate her book into my own language as I think it would help so many! Its the only book that is relevant for adoptions

Years later… My name is Andrew and Jeff is a high school classmate of mine. I have learned from his older son that he is not doing well. Please offer a prayer today for one of the really good guys.

I find your stories so fascinating although I'm not adopted. So glad to hear that you three have found further information about your bio families. God bless you all and the special angels that have helped you on your journey ❤

Thank you so much, Emma! Your story of integration is so compelling, and telling it must be so liberating for you. Thank you for sharing!

No, it's not okay that one parent decides to put a child up for adoption.

Oh my God lady, you can't stop flirting with this handsome man. You are way over the top and annoying, stop flirting, it's embarrassing.

I am an adoptee

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Excellent interview.

I feel SO validated by this zoom meeting!! I am a firstmom reunited with my son, as of today June 3, 1992, it's 31 years of reunion!!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 lies lies lies that's my big ugly headed sister and all she does is lie out her ass

Thank you for telling your story. I gave birth in Indiana, 1968. I searched and met my son in 1990. He was raised in Atlanta. It took me 50'yrs to face and process the trauma of relinquishment. ( forced) I read the book, "The girls that went away." And watched the PM of Australia, with the apology of forced adoption. It has been very difficult, as you well know. Relinquishment is a very complex trauma.

An exceptional presentation by Marie. Thank you. Liz Harvie, 1974 survivor of domestic forced adoption, England.

Medical genealogy something I’ve been charting for several years through numerous generations now. I’ve had cousins, nieces and nephews asking for my charts since it’s their medical genealogy too! I showed my charts to doctors at Mayo clinic in Minnesota & they stated, they’d never seen a multi-generational chart like it that traced so many siblings from 4 generations or more of family heart health! It’s made me learn historical medical terms that no one uses in today’s medical language.

Such an eloquent and important testimony about what "open adoption" is really like for a first mom and her son. Amy Seek is a spectacular writer and her voice is a crucial thread in understanding the lived experience of young women who come to believe the sales job that adoption can be a one-time solution to their temporary problem of not immediately knowing they can in fact, and want to parent their own child. That women are not supported to take the time they need after giving birth, and not given ALL the facts about what separation from their baby will mean for both of them before they're pressured to sign away their rights forever, is the secret horror of how modern for-profit adoption is practiced in this country. Thank you Amber and NAAP.

We never were on equal footing in the families that got us. I'm an Adoptee too, being adopted sucks. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤️

💖 so grateful for your story. Feel more normal now.

Closed record adoptees are the canaries in the genetic coal mine but we are just one kind of family secret. I am so glad NAAP is now broadening and deepening its coverage of "DNA discoveries" to include shocks like this.

Thank you so much, Lynn! Was very happy to listen!

Hey hun, thanks for the reach out. I was born in Uruguay but have lived in Australia for 30 years. I was adopted by an older worker (58) that work at the orphanage were I was left since I was 2 months. My natural mother had access until I was 8 in 1978 when the adoption was formalised. Children aren't respected nor was my life as my adopted mother had 0 motherly feelings, she had 3 daughters 21, 28, and 30 years older than me. One adopted at 15yo. I think my adopted mother was a narcissistic sociopath and burnt my records, not to mention she would constantly say she will give me back if I misbehaved since an early age...

I survived a suicide attempt when I was 21. I believe I was inadvertently trying to unalive myself from 20 to 26 with my alcohol and drug use and the lifestyle I lived while using. Since the loss of my mother I have wished I were never born, I wish I had been aborted. I came out of the fog at 27 so at least I now understand the reason for why I feel this way. Doesn't make it hurt any less. Even being in extremely happy and healthy reunion doesn't alleviate this. What a sick joke that when I say on social media how I've been hurt by adoption, instead of compassion people tell me I should just unalive myself. Adoption is so cruel. A world that has made a business out of this isn't one I want to live in anyway.

This is why I don't understand why this is called a Happy Hour, considering how tragic adoption is.

I wish I'd known this meeting was happening. My son lost to adoption in 1971 died from suicide when he was 27 yo. We had just begun reunion but had not yet met again.

Thank you for identification xxx Please could someone advise me where to start to be able to study in a form of therapy to help adoptees like myself work through this without falling as far as I did 😌

NOT BEING ALLOWED TO EVEN KNOW YOUR REAL NAME.. So many missing years and missing information about your true family history.. etc etc

My grandma was born at the Willows in 1929. We'd love to find her birth relatives !

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It is so tragic that after her book was published, her son died from suicide. I hope she realizes she is not alone in losing her child a second time, finally to mental illness. Adoption trauma increases the risk of mental illness and self-destructive behaviors by at least FOUR times in the adoptee. Also, the mothers have a much higher risk of these outcomes as well, along with secondary infertility.

Fantastic discussion.

Do you have to be vaccinated?

Im in one of those blacked out screens lol

I am adopted and I wished I have known Nancy’s book

I Am adopted- andI wish I have known Nancy’s book BEFOREHAND.

I agree 💯. Nature is stronger than nurture.