I Was Adopted Stories of Experiences

right now i feel terrible because i feel outcasted from those around me and i feel as if no one wants to be around me or be my friend or anything more than that because i feel that i have some sort of disease because i am adopted and...

Being adopted in some sense can be depressing to some people.
I like to look at it in a different way.....for instance.
I'd like to thank my birth parents for giving me life, and I would also like to thank them for giving me up for...

It was a year ago when I wrote my first story about my adoption on this website. I am now 21 years old. Since then I have found out so much information about my biological family. As I've mentioned I went on the county's website found a...

I was adopted at 2 days old. I know my birthmother and all her family. I have only met my "birthfather" 2 times, and not alot of info was told to me about anything really. I want to meet more of my family from his side, even though I...

I was adopted at 3months by who I now know is a narcissist mother. My life was extremely stressful and I am in long term counseling as a result . I no longer speak to her and neither does one of her birth kids. I've met my birthmom (we...

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Okay, I am 15 approaching 16 and I am leaving my High School this summer. I attend a specialist school for children with Social and Behavioural difficulties. I fall under Social...

I was about 4/5 me and my birth parents were close, until they left,but we had visits every few days, until all of a sudden, the visits stopped, i was then adopted into a home, that i was very unhappy in, i felt like an outcast because...

I've had a number of foster homes before settling with the people that 'raised' me. I remember when I was six on the second family. They got me when they thought they couldn't have children. Lo and behold they have one a couple years...

My dad was adopted in 1953 from an orphanage in Glasgow. As far as we know his birth mother was a nurse and father a doctor who was having an extra marital affair so there was no chance of him marrying her.

He was 11 months old when...

I've been thinking alot about trying to locate my parents. More so my dad to see what type of man he became. It's weird but I'm not to sure I want to see how my mom turned out. I want to know the story behind why they gave me away. I'm...

I was adopted at the age of 1 year old buy a lovely family who supported me with everything I did when I turn 17 years old I join the Marine Corps went to Vietnam did 6 tours became a recruiter retired after 20 years

In the Spring of 1975, I was told by my case worker, from the orphanage I was living in, that a couple families were possibly interested in adopting me.
Up to that point, all I had been told is my parents had been abusive to me, and had...

I never knew who my parents, my real parents were. Of course, I was adopted and loved and cared for, but my real biological family....

I think I was adopted when I was about 3. I have no real recollection of my life before that....bits...

My name is Bob and I am a Black Market adoptee.
I was sold into adoption through the black market in 1935.
It was a period when unwed b-moms, gave up their children and were told to "go home, and forget about it."
In many places it was...

Dear adoptees from Eastern Europe/Russia! Louisiana State University school of Social Work is conducting a research "Cultural Self Identification of individuals adopted from Eastern Europe into the USA".
We are looking for adoptees who...

So I recently found information about my birth mother today I had flowers delivered to her address with a card that read " I was adopted in 1982 I think you might be my birth mother please contact me at " with my phone number and email...

I went to Vietnam I seen a lot of bad things over there I lost my left leg and a partial of my right arm what I mean by partial of my right arm is a lost a lot of skin over there they fixed it for me it looks good I was so proud to...

I am very Happy for a lot of you that where adopted,a lot of you have found your real parents.and you still have your adoptive parents great .I on the other hand wish i could find my son.his mother gave him up for adoption at birth,and...

I know this may not ring true to everyone but I was adopted and we adopted my daughter from China. I tell her that her biological mother loved her so much she made the greatest sacrifice a parent could do. She left you knowing that you...

my parents hate me because i love other caste girl and leave me m live in other city without family. so im feel alone ...
I need too jatt sikh family