[MissyJ]

Liberty, I know what you mean. When I received my NID, I finally got a partial picture from the second time I wrote. (Yep, I requested MORE after receiving my NID.) Unfortunately, most of it is false on my birth mother.

BIE: It's PAST time to write. Especially for older adoptees. Everyone needs to write...and write NOW.

Spread the word. Let others know of the plight of adoptees and foster kids. We ARE NOT "normal" citizens. We are NOT afforded basic information that could possibly allow us to find out if we are at risk for inherited disease.

There are some of us that are adopted that are related to Native Americans. We are not afforded the same rights as they are, simply because we were adopted. Sometimes even without the knowledge of the Native American birth father (if we were born before the ICWA).

BIE, we aren't second class citizens, we are expendable.

It's time for action. Write. Write every legislative person in the State. Let them know a law needs to be made to allow ALL adoptees and foster children their full and complete files, with nothing changed, or whited out. No questions, or conditions should be added on.

You know, I thank God for my birth mother. When I wrote, she told me she had been waiting since I turned 18. She had told her entire family about me. She answered all of my questions immediately (as in, the answers were in my mailbox 4 days after she received my letter!), openly and honestly.

When I explained how I found her (after she asked "what took you so long?") she could not believe the small amount of information I had. That's when we started comparing my NID with what was really going on.

She had no knowledge of any of the "reunion" registries. That's a shame also.