QUESTIONS: a new journey begins...

By Trace L Hentz (blog editor)



Whenever I find new adoptees, I want them to know immediately we share this experience.



Here is someone who is in the first stages of discovery...

http://urbanhaas.blogspot.com/2011/08/unexpected-connection.html



What strikes me about this new adoptee and his new adoptee journey are the QUESTIONS: " Is it right to contact someone who carried you and gave you up 42 years ago? What if reaching out is painful or opens old wounds? What if it’s better not knowing? What if they’re bad people? What if …. Many questions rolled around in my head as I considered what to do...."



These are our thoughts. What do we do, how do we handle contact and reunions, what ifs, etc. There are no guidebooks for this which is why I wrote my memoir One Small Sacrifice. I had to explain to others we are not alone and if they are Native adoptees, I want them to know the history and how the Indian Adoption Project files are sealed to hide their hideous intentions to erase us as Indians.



I feel for this adoptee: He writes:

"...Contact. What happens next? We’ve been corresponding via email and are making plans to meet face to face. It’s exciting. Both of us felt shock at the sudden connection. Neither of us have experienced the pain that could have come. Not yet at least...."



One reason I blog and read other adoptee blogs is our shared experience. Sharing our stories is how we heal...



Have you found any new adoptee blogs?