ADOPTEE RIGHTS – unrelated thoughts: on being an unruly adoptee

Ep. 9 – Co-Sign

I do not think that I am an experiment, like the adoptee triplets Robert Shafran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman who were literally experimented on in the seventies and eighties, or that there has been a preponderance of surveillance of me… more than any other person in today’s society. But a life-long anxiety about my place in the world was made worse, not better, by the circumstances of my closed adoption.

Ep. 8 – The Paper Chase

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Idaho is not a large state, and there’s only so many people in it. I don’t think the state is run by heartless automatons, there’s a reason for these laws. But it’s absurd to deny me access to a document that only proves what I already know–my biological parentage is provably different from what they keep on file.