Fear of the Unknown - Why I Decided to Search for my Birth Mother.
To those who were raised with their genetic family, it may seem that searching for your birth mother would be an obvious choice. For me at least, it was not. Before I start, I should note, that my parents and I share the same race, so it was not apparent to anyone that my genetic heritage may be different from the rest of my family. Growing up, I was the only child I knew that was adopted. It wasn’t until high school that I met another adoptee. As early as elementary school, friends would ask if I wanted to find my birth mother or question “How can you not know where you are from?”. People will say things like this all the time to adoptees (I will get more into this in a future post). It’s bizarre and scary for them to think that you don’t have information that they have effortlessly available to them. At this young age, it was impossible for me to even begin to understand the depth of this process and what finding my birth mother would mean fo...