I Can Relate To The Struggles

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Words That Mean Something To These Lives

This is the adoption symbol (a triangle and a heart). One side of the triangle represents the biological family, while another side of it represents the adoptive family, the other and most important side represents the adopted child.

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The meaning of the heart is to say the adoptee the heart of the whole adoption.

What's Essential?

Ø Why do adopted people tend to find adjusting to life such a struggle, especially in teenage years?

 Ø  Why do adopted people tend to find adjusting to life such a struggle?

o  especially in teenage years

 Ø  How do biological children compare and differ from adopted children?

 Ø  What is often the mind set of people who are adopted?

o  How they perceive themselves

 Ø Do adoptees often find themselves facing thing such as anxiety issues?

o  How does adoption affect them socially and/or mentally?

My Reason & Relation

    The reason I picked my topic, does being adopted effect the social life of teens, is because I myself was adopted. Knowing what happened during my adoption, the reason why I was adopted I believe it really does affect how I interact with people socially, and how I perceive things. I believe it affects me socially because it effects how I perceive myself; it causes me to think that anyone who I gain a relationship with, in the end will end up leaving me or in some form cause me the same pain I experienced back before I was adopted and while I was in the process of being adopted.

    Having all these things running through my mind and do often affect me negatively; I wanted to find out if it has affected anyone else in a negative way, or do the majority move past it?