What would you do if you found out that you were adopted?
16 Answers to "What would you do if you found out that you were adopted?"
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I'd throw one of the biggest parties ever!!!! OMG it would be so great not to be related to that woman.
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I'd be very angry that my biological parents left me with these poor excuses I've got for parents.
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Wouldnt make a difference to me.
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nothing, i'll b thankful they adopted me. they are amazing........ Actually for the first time i'll hv answer to my brother's question on my different appearance
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Thank my adopted parents and try harder to help them
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It would explain a hell of a lot of issues I have.
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I'd be like "That answers a lot of questions..." because I'm very different from the rest of my family unit.
I would still consider them my family though. I may ask about my real parents, but I don't think I'd bother going to find them... Unless they were rich...Like (2)
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Be grateful I was brought up in a loving family
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Be happy about not becomming like my father.
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Nothing...except to think the Goo Goo Dolls song Name was made just for me!
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Take a big sigh of relief
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I just found out, that when I was 3 or 4 I was adopted, I am 59 now. It took a year to figure it out, slowly putting the puzzle of years and years together, lies I was told. The secret came out after the parents who adopted me died. Their real children distributed the inheritance, and despite a will including me, disregarded the will and left me out 100%. No family member ever calling me for 35 years, no one telling me my father who adopted me asked for me on his death bed, they waited until after he was gone. The mother who adopted me, when she was around 88, told me, she wished I were her son. Then I dug up my baby photos and realized, all the photos, taken from when I was 3 or so, taken the same day, the day I arrived. What hurts is that my brother and sisters who were not adopted, put greed of money before any feelings they had for me, which appears to be none. So if you wonder how you would feel if you were adopted, for me, it is like erasing all the time I have invested in family, all the cards, love, years of work assisting my parents, only to find out, I was used like a slave, manipulated for free labor for years and years. All the while, they knew, all of them, and they used me. It is a very empty feeling, like having your soul removed and burned, it is an unbelievable emptiness. You would not be happy to find out you were adopted. If I had known all along, it would have surely helped me in everyway, knowing explains reactions, reasons why family would behave certain ways at certain times. Not knowing, wasted my time, confusing situations over the years, not answered until now, at 59.
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Give my m&d hug and thank them for the life they've given me.
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Cheer!
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I feel like that would explain a lot...it would give me closure to be honest.
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Posted by themarvelousme Aug 13th, 2012 at 6:08AM
It was confusing when I was first told, but once you live with a set of parents for so long you end up adopting them as much as they adopt you and you can't really think of anyone else as mom and dad. At least for me.
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