Label: lived experience of adoption
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Grieving for the Child of the Past
Dan R Moen, Filipino adoptee and talented artist shares a 3 part series of paintings depicting the internal struggles an intercountry adoptee traverses.
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Reflective Memories: Finding My Vietnamese Mother
by Denise Sandquist adopted from Vietnam to Sweden. At this time of the year, it’s time for reflection! I want to share my story of how I found my mother and why this time of year is so special. Almost exactly 4 years ago, I found my biological mother in Vietnam! I was adopted from…
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My Asian American Adoptee Experience
Ming Foxweldon shares for #AAPIHM what it’s like to be Asian American.
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Why I’m Not Going Back: One Intercountry Adoptee’s Perspective
Intercountry adoptee shares about racism and xenophobia.
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New Connections
At this current moment I’m flying thousands of kilometres through the air to reach my destination – The Hague, Netherlands. It’s going to take me 24 hours and you all know what that’s like – cramped in a stuffy space with people coughing, kids crying, airplane food, almost-can’t-turn-around-in spaces they call “toilets” and trying to…
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Mental Health and Adoption
Lynelle writes critically about the lack of understanding and support for intercountry adoptees who live with mental illness.
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The Power of Peer Support
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in Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, ICAV Beginnings, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Racial Mirrors, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLynelle writes critically about the power of peer support in intercountry adoption.
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Vulnerable children are not blank slates
Lynelle writes critically about what could be gained from including adult intercountry adoptees in policy discussions.
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What is it like to be Adopted?
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in Abandonment and Rejection, Abuse in Adoption, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Suicide, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, VietnamLynelle answers the question What is it like to be adopted? providing insight from her own journey, sharing some common elements many other adoptees speak of.
