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Originally Posted by ShadowGX
And does it change how you feel in regards to abandonment?
I chose to post this here instead of a more general forum because I'm curious how many of us BPD folk are adopted.
I am, and it does change how abandoned I feel. My biological parents didn't want me - mother was a drug and alcohol abuser (did both while I was in her apparently) and father was a low-life piece of crap who was just after a one-night stand. Bio grandmother wanted me aborted supposedly, and I wish bio mom had listened. Why give birth to me if you're going to screw me over with drugs and alcohol? I blame her for so much of where I am right now. I'm lucky to not have physical deformities, just mental ones... My adoptive mom has asked me a few times if I've ever wanted to find bio mom and at one point signed us up for a website that could link bio families, including siblings, together. Nothing ever came of it though. Out of curiosity I would like to know if she ever got clean and turned into a good person, and I'm also curious the family medical history. I know both last names, no first names. I could find out though if I wanted, but I feel I know enough right now. I'm not ready to know more and may never be. The reason I even know this much is because apparently my bio mom went to the same church as my adoptive parents did at the time and that's how she picked them. It was a big church I guess and since my parents were new to the area they didn't know of my bio mom (adoptive dad was in the Navy so they didn't stay in one place long). My adoptive parents got all of this info from someone in the middle, I think it was the attorney? I don't remember for sure now. It was a closed adoption so technically they shouldn't know this much, but I'm glad they do because it has staved off my curiosity.
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no, but often I wonder how life would have turned out for me if I was.
now I don't have any family who want to be part of my life, and every day it's jkust a catelogue of thoughts... mainly about how much I was abused as a kid.
if I was adopted to another family (perhaps a loving, understanding family), would life have been diffrent for me?
possibly
I feel really strongly about this topic- and it's just made me wonder why the hell my mother abused me (and my siblings) and put us through hell and unmentionable torture, when she could have just had us adopted
the more and more I think about it, them ore it makes me angry and them ore I wonder if she wanted us to go through that abuse- if she had us adopted, she'd lose the control she had of abusing us on a daily bases.
thanks for posting this thread, it's actually food for thought