Sometimes it's knowing that you were never really wanted. You could be a ticking time bomb just waiting to go off.
Ever have to go up to your third grade teacher and ask if you would still be able to do a family tree since you're adopted? Or have your sixth grade teacher tell you that it wasn't necessary for you to do a genetic traits chart? On a lighter note, it also makes some school assignments a little awkward. You know, the one where you write down everyone in your family's hair color, eye color, widow's peck, etc. Because it's pretty hard to link the genetics of why you look the way you look when you're an Asian in a white family.īecause when you're cross-culturally adopted, you don't look like everyone in your family. It makes it hard to know what you're supposed to look like as you grow. It gives you a visual representation that you're different, that you're 'other'.
