http://bitchyouleftme.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/shit-people-say-to-adoptees/
Comment:
T. Laurel Sulfate, Snarkurchin says: Ugh–the “I wish I were adopted” comments
make me furious. Do you also wish you were stigmatized or disadvantaged
in other ways? Wanna be poor because those people are the salt of the
earth? Wanna be all gay and native American and differently abled
because that would get you some really cool scholarships? No? Then *why*
pretend you wish you didn’t know who you are?
And “I feel that way too” really gets to me. Yeah, your ordinary
alienation is so very not ordinary that it’s like not knowing where you
come from and never looking like anyone in your family. Sure it is. It’s
exactly like that. In fact, when people ask me how it feels to be
adopted I always say “It feels really emo.” SPARE ME.
If you have horrible abusive parents, and you think it really would
have been better off for you to have been adopted, *find a different way
of saying that when you know the person you’re talking to is adopted.*
Sheesh.
That post will make you growl and smile! I promise!
Trace
