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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 432229" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>The courage and the truthfulness are not the obvious or easily visible kind (unfortunately). Adopted children experiencing severe attachment problems can go two ways, it seems - they can become outwardly very compliant and inwardly withdrawn, which of course earns the approval of the adults, or they can become... well, like little hellions, all the inner pain and confusion and grief becoming externalised. This does take a kind of courage. As for the truthful, I did not mean in the obvious sense of not telling lies or falsehoods. I meant it in the sense of being emotionally truthful. It was his saying that he was not part of you and wanted to be alone that struck me. From the situation as you have described it here, it sounds as if this is, sadly, true.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 432229, member: 11227"] The courage and the truthfulness are not the obvious or easily visible kind (unfortunately). Adopted children experiencing severe attachment problems can go two ways, it seems - they can become outwardly very compliant and inwardly withdrawn, which of course earns the approval of the adults, or they can become... well, like little hellions, all the inner pain and confusion and grief becoming externalised. This does take a kind of courage. As for the truthful, I did not mean in the obvious sense of not telling lies or falsehoods. I meant it in the sense of being emotionally truthful. It was his saying that he was not part of you and wanted to be alone that struck me. From the situation as you have described it here, it sounds as if this is, sadly, true. [/QUOTE]
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