unrelated thoughts: on being an unruly adoptee
the podcast by wes unruh
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There is a phrase that I first encountered in Betty Jean Lifton’s book Journey of the Adopted Self, the term “genetic bewilderment” and “cumulative adoption trauma.” Becoming a father, meeting someone, finally, who looked like me, even if it took a few years to really become apparent, was a kind of anchor.
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You probably have not seen Warlock III: The End of Innocence (1999). Not a lot of people have. It was an outlier to a franchise that had marginal popularity in the 1980s and – to be clear – it was direct to video. It neither fits with the previous films from the Warlock franchise, nor is it particularly remarkable as a stand-alone horror film. It is, one might say, a “deep cut.” Unless you were looking for it, you likely have not seen this film. Yet, as an adoptee film, Warlock III does some remarkable things.
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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.
