Exposure
I recently shared my story on the @officialpeopleofindia page ( click here for the link ). It went pretty much how I thought it would. I knew by sharing my story with them, it was going to reach out to a much larger audience. It was nerve-racking and anxiety-inducing. But I knew I needed it to be done. Let people see the other side of a system they believe is best for abandoned and unwanted children. The comments to my story included those confused and angered by me saying I was brought up with love and abuse. Like it's impossible to experience both. To them, I can explain my trauma to you, I cannot understand it for you. As I read through more, there was empathy and backlash. Backlash because I was shedding adoption and my adoptive parents in a negative light. And this is why it was important for me to share. Because there are a countless number of adoptees afraid of this backlash. Afraid of what society will tell them how to feel. That we need to suppress all the bad and just be...