Victim or Adoptee?

Whenever I tell anyone the life journey that an Adoptee goes through, I am told to stop playing the victim card. I know for a fact I have never played the victim. That's not even close to what an Adoptee does. Adoptee's are the greatest actors on the face of the planet. We have had to be, there was never room for victimization. We could only show gratefulness. Gratefulness and Victimization are 2 vastly different things...