w/ loss. Every single one. No baby/child becomes available for adoption w/o being legally severed from its mother, family, identity. Those losses are profound, & no matter what comes after, THERE'S NOTHING BEAUTIFUL ABOUT LOSING ONE'S FAMILY. /end #AdopteeVoices #AdopteeMastodon

don't think ppl who adopt ever get what they expect. They rarely get what they want. But most of them get what they deserve." She never brought the subject up again.

I still believe that's true. /end

#adoption #AdopteeVoices #AdopteeMastodon #AdoptionIsAHumanRightsIssue

Open Forum Invitation! Ask an #Adoptee - what would you like to know about the #AdopteeExperience? I'd like to start a conversation that centers #AdopteeVoices but still allows people to ask questions, because we can't learn what we don't talk about. So. Ask me anything! #AdopteeMastodon #AdoptionIsTrauma #AdoptionIsaHumanRightsIssue #AdoptionCritique

Hey #Adoptee #Adoptees #AdopteeVoices #AdopteeTwitter #AdopteeMastodon folks, what do you think about starting up a list of influential adoptee accounts in the Fediverse through Trunk?

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/

It's opt-in, so people would need to explicitly volunteer to be listed. Still, might be a good way to get newcomers in touch with the community quickly.

Trunk for the Fediverse

#Adoptee folks, feel free to DM me with questions if you are here & struggling to figure out how Mastodon works. I'm hardly an expert on everything Fediverse, but I'd like to think I've got most of the fundamentals for Mastodon down.

If you're trying to figure out how to get more content showing up in your timeline, you're struggling to find people, or you're not sure what all this talk of federation or a Fediverse means, HMU.

#AdopteeTwitter #Adoptees #AdopteeMastodon

I some times feel like having one mother is standard, having two is a bonus and having three is just absurd. In my life, there is one child that know with a similar set of moms (though two of hers have the ability to legally marry, which mine did not). It also feels like it is usually too much to disambiguate who I mean-- birthmother, adoptive mom, mom's long term partner (30 years by the time she died). I also feel like I'm "too much." #AdopteeMastodon #adoptees
is there an #AdopteeMastodon or other sort of #AdopteeVoices #adoptee community here?