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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 396943"><p>Another adoptee speaking up here - Even though I knew, both from my adopted parents, and later confirmed by bio-parents, that I was given up and placed privately for adoption because they knew they could not take proper care of me (mostly financial reasons) and wanted to make certain I would be placed where I would be well cared for with more advantages and opportunities, I have had (and in some ways still do have) those same adoption issues. I never feel I fit in with either family, with my friends, anywhere. Not completely. I (mostly) compensated in other ways, and I enjoy my solitude most of the time, but there is still that nagging feeling in the back of everything else, sometimes tugging on me more than usual, but always there, and even when it's quiet and not pulling on me I feel its presence.</p><p></p><p>Edit: The book I found that helped me most was "Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness" by Betty Jean Lifton</p><p>They have it at amazon.com if you want to use the board link thingy to get it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 396943"] Another adoptee speaking up here - Even though I knew, both from my adopted parents, and later confirmed by bio-parents, that I was given up and placed privately for adoption because they knew they could not take proper care of me (mostly financial reasons) and wanted to make certain I would be placed where I would be well cared for with more advantages and opportunities, I have had (and in some ways still do have) those same adoption issues. I never feel I fit in with either family, with my friends, anywhere. Not completely. I (mostly) compensated in other ways, and I enjoy my solitude most of the time, but there is still that nagging feeling in the back of everything else, sometimes tugging on me more than usual, but always there, and even when it's quiet and not pulling on me I feel its presence. Edit: The book I found that helped me most was "Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness" by Betty Jean Lifton They have it at amazon.com if you want to use the board link thingy to get it. [/QUOTE]
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