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The two strangest reactions were at different points in my life. In high school, a friend who knew I was adopted (actually born at the same hospital six months after me and always told me that was where "those mothers" all went to give birth) told me I could have sex with my brother (also adopted) and it would not really be incest. EWWWW!
Then when I met my future mil, she was going off on dh's ex-wife and how crazy she was, blah, blah, blah. Next thing I know she stops talking, looks at me and says, "But she is adopted so you know something has to be wrong with her." I gave her a piece of my mind right there. She has said some doozie stuff later, especially after my kids were born, but that was the funniest. I still have not told her, 10 months later, that I have been reunited with my bmom. Her reaction will be very negative, based on her history, and I just have not wanted to deal with it.
People can be very insensitive, that is for sure.
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