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⌈ Secret Post #2691 ⌋

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[Akuma Kyoushi]

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That's why I added the "not that I'm saying they're not." What we've gotten is still open to interpretation a little bit, but at this point, I think it's pretty clear that they're going for them being biologically related.

That said, I'd still feel the same way. It bothers me that people say "well, he said that she's his daughter, so obviously she's not adopted." Even if they weren't biologically related, she would still be his daughter.

It gets me probably more than it should just because I'm adopted, and people have pitied me my entire life. I've never felt bad because my mother isn't the person who gave birth to me, but the people who act like my parents' love for me and my connection to them isn't real have definitely made me feel pretty bad.

DA

I know zero about this comic, but as a fellow adoptee here, +1 to your second paragraph, and damn, that's fucked up to your second. (The people implying that your parents aren't *really* your parents, not you feeling bad about that, of course.)

The most I've dealt with is careless wording about "Well, aren't you curious about your real parents?" where they did mean "biological" rather than, "the people who raised you and love you aren't your real parents". It sucks that you had to deal with idiots who can't comprehend that family isn't defined by genetics.

I also get a bit oversensitive about the adoptive parents =/= "real" parents thing. I had a major issue with Once Upon a Time for the same reason.

Okay, about the Once thing? Henry was stolen from Emma. She should have never ended up in prison, just so she could fix the curse the rape queen Regina started. Also, laws in that state prohibit out of state a adoption, plus the fact that Regina would never been allowed to adopt CONSIDERING SHE MURDERED A MAN FROM THIS WORLD. Seriously, Regina=/=actual adopted families.

AYRT:

Hence why I used the word "oversensitive", not "completely justified". I stopped watching somewhere halfway through the first season, so, while I fully believe that the show justified that particular plot point, for the first six or so episodes, it really gave me an uncomfortable anti-adoption vibe. That's most of the reason I stopped watching, in fact.

I can see that, but I never saw it as adoption personally. In later seasons you find out that before Rumple gave Regina Henry, a man and his son stumbled onto her town. She murders the father and tries to keep the son, but he runs past the barrier. He comes back later as a 'villain'.

Oh here we go again.

Yes, here we go again. "So what if Regina made Graham sleep with her after she stole his heart, it's not rape because she's an adopted mother! So what if she murdered a man to get his son, she's an adopted mother so it's totes okay!"

Honestly, it wasn't a legal adoption, get over it. I'd be more insulted that people wanted to make a rapist-murderer into a poster for TV adoption representation.

That said, I'd still feel the same way. It bothers me that people say "well, he said that she's his daughter, so obviously she's not adopted." Even if they weren't biologically related, she would still be his daughter.

I'm not adopted, but my brother is, and totally agreed with this.

(I don't even LIKE my brother, but if you dare say he's not my brother, I'ma punch you, mate.)

ayrt

Oh, okay! Sorry, I misread your secret the first time, so I didn't pick up on the full meaning.

But yeah, I get what you're saying now. One of my best friends is adopted and almost daily he goes through exactly what you've described, which is completely unfair to him and his family since his parents are some of the most loving people I've ever met.

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