WTAF?

A couple of words that have been thrown around recently are Narcissism and Gaslighting. I see a lot of adoptees using these words as a form of trying to make someone back off. It’s used as a bully tactic to throw someone off for something they say and it’s hard to explain to someone that they aren’t using the words in the right context. They would never listen anyways. So instead of trying to educate someone who refuses education, I know I will spend my time with someone who is open to education.

The worst part of all of this...adoptees are attacking adoptees instead of making our voices sound smart and caring, it’s showing us as unhinged. How do you think that affects our adoptee community? Maybe some things need to stop and maybe we should just walk away from an angry adoptee. Interacting with that type of person will only minimize what we should all be agreeing on. I do recognize that I have behaved poorly in the last few months with regards to going after a few adopters and a few adoptees. I felt at the time I was standing up for myself but now I see how I really came off. I can’t make it go away but I can go forward. I refuse to be stuck in that behaviour. I am better than what I’ve been.