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What I Was Really Avoiding: Jay Barbanel on Adoption, Therapy & Healing
Jay Barbanel, author of Finding Tico, unpacks what he spent two decades avoiding, and what it took to finally choose healing over silence.
Embracing Complexity: Insights from a Transgender Adoptee
Growing up as an Adoptee has its own share of difficulties. Growing up as a transgender person also has its own share of difficulties. Growing up as a transgender Adoptee is complicated to say the least.
A real life Oreo: my experience as a transracial adoptee
As a transracial adoptee when I think of an Oreo, it reminds me of how I used to think of myself — a Black man that had internalized white culture, and for the record not by choice.
Mental Health Preparedness: My experience with mental illness growing up adopted
I discovered these quotes on a fact sheet I found among my 1978-79 adoption documents after my parents’ deaths.
