"I was very lucky for that. I didn’t have to experience foster homes. I think I would have a much different view of being adoptive if I had, though. I never bounced around and never felt unwanted or out of place. I left the hospital and went straight home with my parents, like any other regular baby.”

On societal elements that effect adoptive families.

“For me, I was always home. I was always with my family and I was never treated any differently than my siblings, who were weren’t adopted. But my birth parents, I think society was much less forgiving. They were very young, they weren’t married, their families were very ashamed. My birth mother was sent to live with extended family for the duration of her pregnancy…When I found them years later, they were married with a child, so maybe theres some truth to soul mates!”

Positives and Negatives.

“I don’t feel that there were anymore positives or negatives than a normal childhood would have. Being adopted didn’t seem to positively or negatively effect me until I was much older. As an adult who was sick, doctors kept asking for family history… not knowing the illnesses or histories of my biological family was the only real negative I could see.’