Girls Adoption Connect
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July 19, 2022
What makes you feel different?
Adoptee edition…
Slide descriptions
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Slide one: What makes you feel different? Adoptee edition.
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Slide two: When someone mentions something culturally and expects me to understand it because I'm Chinese.
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Slide three: When I'm surrounded by my white relatives who are biologically related.
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Slide four: When my friends look like their parents, and I don't.
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Slide five: I can't speak Chinese but people assume I can.
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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.”
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Slide seven: Not knowing anything genetically about myself.