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Re: Just found out I'm adopted - June 16th 2020, 11:14 PM

I can't imagine how devastating that must have been for you. You found out in such an unfortunate and unintentional way. I understand that you feel angry. You feel lied to and betrayed.

With all of that said, may I suggest taking a step back and looking at the situation from their perspective? You're 14 years old. It's never easy for a parent to tell their child they never gave birth to them. It's common for a lot of parents to want to wait until the right time to tell their child they were adopted. Many parents wait until their child is 16-18. They wanted you to grow up having a normal, loving life. Not one where you were to grow up and feel like your parents weren't really 'yours'.

It's easy to say that they should have just told you, or to have such high expectations in knowing when the right time would be to even tell you. Or to even consider that they should have told you from a right age... but that wouldn't have been fair. Have you thought about asking them why they kept this from you? It's all very well and good yelling at them and practically wanting to disown them as parents, but maybe there was a very good reason for their decision. You won't know what it was until you sit down and find out. Sure you may say that you don't care, but do you really want to sit there being angry with feelings of betrayal for the rest of your life? You'll grow up to become very miserable. For all you know, maybe they didn't tell you for the fact they feared the exact reaction you gave them.

Take all the time you need to calm down and collect yourself, but please talk to them. Again, it was really horrifying that you found out by accident, but please don't spend your time focusing entirely on the negative aspects of the situation. You'll come off worse for it.