Adoptee edition…

Slide descriptions

  • Slide one: What makes you feel different? Adoptee edition.
  • Slide two: When someone mentions something culturally and expects me to understand it because I'm Chinese.
  • Slide three: When I'm surrounded by my white relatives who are biologically related.
  • Slide four: When my friends look like their parents, and I don't.
  • Slide five: I can't speak Chinese but people assume I can.
  • Slide six: When the French school system didn't see my birth certificate as legitimate because of my adoption and a “record of a foreign birth.”
  • Slide seven: Not knowing anything genetically about myself.