Being adopted is not a subject I spend a lot of time talking about in my day to day life. My good friends now that I am adopted, I talk about it with them when they ask me questions. My best friend has a daughter that the child’s bio father has never seen her and being part of her life in any way. So, she ask me a lot of questions about how to discuss, how much to discuss with her. She has been concerned about things her daughter has asked her as she has gotten old, so we have talked about adoption a lot and the feeling of a loss that her daughter feels. When my close friends ask questions about me being adopted, I answer and do not mind talking bout being adopted.

People that I am not close to, or have a working relationship with, do not know that I am adopted. No, it is not something I am trying to hide. I am totally fine and at peace with being adopted. I just do not find the need to tell everyone I meet or around me that I am adopted. I have been married before and this is something I do not go around sharing with everyone. Again, I am not embarrassed about being divorced, that is an experience of my life that has made me the person that I am today.

Someone that I have worked with in the past was adopted, she talked about it all the time and to everyone that would listen. She was consumed with being adopted. At the time that was all she was about. I know that she was very unhappy and seemed that she had not dealt with her feelings about being adopted. She found out that I was adopted when I adopted my children.


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