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The File That Lies: When Non-Identifying Information Fails

The Promise

Jun 26, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #personal-information #non-identifying #adoptee

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Why Adoptees Thrive in Crises and Dissociate in Peace

Crisis Expert

Jun 23, 2026 · 3 min read · 2 claps #crisis #nervous-system #dissociation

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The Locked Room: What Adoptees Dream About

Non-adoptees dream about failing tests or showing up to work without pants. Adoptees dream about locked rooms, public bathrooms, and phones…

Jun 07, 2026 · 4 min read · 50 claps #dreams #dream-analysis #adoptee

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Mother’s Maiden Name (Unknown)

Paper Cut

Jun 06, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #maiden-name #real-name #adoptee

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Shame and Sympathy: Twin Burdens Adoptees Never Asked For

First Judgment in the Delivery Room

May 29, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #sympathy #shame #burden

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SH Shanta Loecker · Adoptere: Auditing the Narrative

Dear self-proclaimed ‘Wasians’:

I know what it feels like to not quite belong in most culturally defined spaces.

May 20, 2026 · 7 min read · 17 claps paywalled #wasian #asian-american #asian

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Death of Who You Thought You Were: Adoptee Awakening

Fog As Survival Gear

May 13, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #fog #awakening #adoptee

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Diagnosis Turned Weapon: Reactive Attachment Disorder and the Scapegoating of Adopted Children

Label Handed Out Like Candy

Apr 23, 2026 · 5 min read · 10 claps #reactive-attachment #rad #scapegoat

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Body’s Unfinished Archive: How Adoption Imprints the Nervous System

Reticular Activating System: Gatekeeper That Never Sleeps

Mar 01, 2026 · 6 min read · 20 claps #nervous-system #imprint #adoptee

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SH Shane Bouel · Thoughtless Delineation

The Internal Journey in a World That Does Not Share the Rupture

Adoptees as Diagnostic Instruments in an Age of Severance

Feb 28, 2026 · 4 min read · 3 claps #rupture #adoptee #severence

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Exploring New Horizons: My Journey into Understanding Sexuality

The question “Am I queer?” began to echo in my mind

Feb 23, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #gender-identity #queer #sexual-identity

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SH Shane Bouel · Thoughtless Delineation

KUNINGAN:

Where the Ancestors Return to Light, and the Displaced Soul Finds Its Way Home

Nov 30, 2025 · 4 min read · 0 claps #lineage #bali #kuningan

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Lifebooking The Adoptee Experience

It’s just one story here of course, and there are many expressions of creating a holding point for experiences of distresses made more…

Jun 26, 2025 · 3 min read · 42 claps #lifebook #adoption #social-work

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Ohana Means Nobody Gets Left Behind (Except Adoptees)

The first time I heard the word ohana, it was in a darkened theater watching Lilo & Stitch. “Ohana means family,” the little girl on screen…

Jun 11, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #adoption #adoptee #ohana

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The Library of Missing Things: What Adoption Agencies Won’t Let You Read

The Fiction of Blank Slates

May 31, 2025 · 2 min read · 50 claps #adoption #relinquishment #abandonment

SH Shane Bouel · Thoughtless Delineation

Galungan in the Land of the Forgotten Ones.

Living in Banjar Apuh, Lodtunduh, as a Rememberer Without a Lineage

Apr 23, 2025 · 2 min read · 1 claps #adoptee #bali #ceremony

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SU Susie Tell

The Day I Learned I was Adopted…..

I was 6 or 7 years old, and this moment changed everything. I wouldn’t know just how much it would affect my life, nor was I aware of how…

Jan 23, 2025 · 3 min read · 41 claps #adoptee #adopteevoices #childhood-trauma

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Fever dream — writing to survive

The fevers were a hallmark of our son’s sixth year. Each attack announced itself with a headache, sore throat, and vomiting. His…

Jun 22, 2022 · 5 min read · 0 claps #family-history #pfapa #adoptee