Raising awareness of adoptism/adopteephobia @this-is-adoptism - Tumblr Blog

I have too many sideblogs at this point but I thought I may as well create another one. As it seems like there's not a lot of blogs talking about adoptism* on here.

So here's an official call for asks about adoptism and adoptee experiences!

*adoptism, also called adopteephoboia, is prejudice against adoptees.

OP was adopted in the UK aged 1 and 11 months (same race adoption) and is a transgender man (I use he/him pronouns).

#adoptees #adoptism #adopteephobia #adopterism #adoption #adoptee rights #transracial adoption #<- covering bases

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Even though it's by necessity, it is weird that adoptees have to specify birth parents vs adoptive parents when non-adoptees don't have to do that. Despite the fact that it wouldn't be inaccurate to call most families with no experience of adoption "birth families".

#adoptees #adoption #adoptee rights #adoptism #adopteephobia #birth family #birth mother #birth father #birth parent

fredbydawn2-thefredening

something I feel like most people don’t notice unless you’re also adopted, but it’s literally so weird how adoptees are written in fiction. Like it’s crazy how casually a character will just say “oh, well she’s not really my mom” or like “they loved and took care of me even though I’m not their real child” as if that’s how any human person would talk. Like other than in conversations specifically about my adoption, I never refer to my parents as my “adoptive parents” and I never refer to my biological parents as my “real parents.” And of course adoption is, like, only ever used as a way to create drama about who a character’s “real parents” are or as a way to imply that a character has childhood trauma or is “messed up,” cuz adoptees can never just be normal or well adjusted cuz obviously that can only happen if you’re raised by your own flesh and blood and your adoptive parents will never really love you as much as they would their own child, I guess…

777sanele

I just love how we have children's stories like «Ugly duckling«, «Lion King«, «Jungle Book« and «Tangled« where the main character is separated from their own kind or own family and that separation is seen as a negative thing. If the separation has been done on purpose and so the person separating the protagonist from their parents can benefit from the protagonist, the person forcing the protagonist from their own kind is a villain in the story. The process of the protagonist finding their roots is usually very crucial for the plot of the story in a positive way.

The ugly duckling grows to be a beautiful swan, Simba becomes the real king of his kingdom, Rapunzel finally gets to see the real world and her biological parents.

My point is even in children's medias separation from own kind and own parents are seen as a bad thing. But as adoptees we are assumed and maybe even pressured to be grateful for the thing everyone sees as misfortune. People see adoption as a bad, unfortunate thing and everyone is happy it didn't happen to them but adoptees should be grateful for their adoptive parents for adopting them.

I know my life would be so much more difficult if I grew up as an orphan in South-Africa especially when there's been serious problems with femicide and gender based violence for past seven years. At the same time I don't know how I would be able to be grateful for being robbed my culture, my experience of being South-African. I should be grateful for being robbed my biological family and the experiences that come with growing up with people who look like me.

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