#actuallyadopted

OC adopts/character adopts, that type. Especially when the person who buys them refers to them explicitly as an adopt, or categorises them away specifically as an adopt, continuously mentions them as not as their own creation outside of giving credit to the original artist, that sort of thing.

With animal/feral/creature type ocs I can understand it more, I see it kind of like an animal shelter adoption type (which has its own issues maybe)

On that note about shelters: once again am I being oversensitive or is it actually odd how people will refer to "oc adopts" as being in "a shelter" or "an orphanage" and will frequently campaign to do trades in order to "rehome" them or "give the adopts to a good loving home" to "a new owner" or words to that effect.

The Hidden Path

June 23, 2022

Even if your adoptive family is lovely and kind.

Even if you are glad you were adopted.

Even if it happened before you were old enough to remember.

Let your body and mind grieve. It's okay.

Adoption trauma is real, valid, and effects different people differently. I love my adoptive family very much, I'm very grateful I was adopted, but there is no positive that leads to a parent being seperated from their child.

Just like any other trauma, adopted people need love, support, and joy all throughout our lives. We are not to be pitied, but are to be supported.

If you are adopted, let yourself process your complicated feelings about your adoption.