Post Adoption Analysis

Citing the Post Adoption Centre is self-explanatory in terms of me indirectly sharing, I am adopted. Although coupled with this statement and regarding the topic of adoption, I should add, I am not into it, so don’t go there because being an adoptee is not an identity card included in my wallet. For some people adopted, they might identify strongly as an adoptee and this applies to any category we fit into. A man who has a child can be categorised as a father but the degree to which he identifies with the role depends upon him personally. A woman with a prosthetic leg may be a professional dancer, while she fits the category of disabled and dancer, it is her choice regarding how she identifies with herself. Although, how we identify with ourselves …show more content…
All kinds of weird self-narratives others possess regarding adopted people are presented to you. With regards to the Post Adoption Centre, I attended solely because of the free sessions on offer, twelve in total and spread weekly. It was during the search for a therapist, a professional who could unblock my repressions, I discovered the government had funded local authorities to provide counselling for adopted people, with my local borough council a subscriber. Not one to pass on a freebie, the opportunity appeared timely and even if it meant therapy might incur a few adoption related queries, it was expected. Despite my displeasure to engage with the adoption topic, I knew adoption incurred psychological trauma, due to the wide reading I had undertaken on the …show more content…
An avid reader of any material ascribing what happens to babies not cared for, I had overdosed, predominately with the hope I could be salvaged, that neuroplasticity could rewire the inherently flawed system. Subsequently, I expected a barrage of issues to be lurking beneath the surface, all material for Sue to dislodge and dismantle and remove, because I was too busy, taken up with my preoccupation with