[DancinBear63]

I was adopted as an infant, and am totally in love with my parents, and my life. I've always loved hearing my adoption story, and would pity my friends who 'weren't chosen'. My husband and I are currently waiting to be matched in a domestic adoption, and I look forward to sharing the positive qualities of adoption with our future children.

[idahonurse]

I'm with all of you guys!! I have always felt that adoption has just made me the most unique person ever. . . loved talking about it growing up. Loved that I was different. Loved being the center of attention at times when people wanted to ask me questions. I have never felt wounded. . . only wonderfully blessed, fully loved, hand chosen. I actually wish that adoption could be a more utilized choice for women. . . I just know TONS of wonderful couples who would just be great parents for a child. I can think of five couples off the top of my head right now here at work who are looking into adopting. There is just something so magnificent and right and pure and good about a woman giving up something out of perfect love and another woman taking up the mantel and providing that perfect love in another's place. What a miracle adoption is! I always think of Moses' mother, who placed him on a stream in a basket of reeds, hoping that another would find him and love him as she had hoped to!! She didn't give him up because she was poor, or a bad person, or living an unhealthy lifestyle. . . no. . . she gave him up to perserve his life in the face of certain death. And to think, he then grew up to lead his people out of harms way. . . The tapestry of life may appear gnarled and disorganized from the underside, where we are looking. But from the top, where God is, it is a work of art, a masterpiece!

[walkedaway]

Thank you so much for posting this. I don't particularly want to be found and I haven't been searching which has caused me a lot of guilt especially when I come across articles and posts about "primal wounds" that I've supposedly been hiding. I'm happy that there are other people that feel proud of their adoption like I do and that there isn't something wrong with me for feeling this way.

-Gen

[xemtrockstarx]

I love being adopted, at 21 I could not be more proud of my family (I don't even consider them "adoptive" - they ARE my real family) and love them. I do not see being adopted as any different as being raised by bio parents minus the fact you have different DNA/health issues at times.

Now, I will not say sometimes kids did not try to make me feel bad about being adopted - but kids are mean sometimes and I was strong then anyway.

I have always been fairly indifferent about being adopted - I rarely think about it really. I don't feel abandoned or unwanted or anything like that.

[SuzySSunshine]

I like being adopted so much that that is how I formed my family!

It is a terrible shame that society is so anxious to paint a picture of tragedy, distress and failure on the face of adoption.