Adoptees Crossing Lines

We are 2 people with 2 very different experiences of being adopted. In this podcast we deconstruct the romanticism holding up the adoption industry and expose the lies, abuse, and pain that gets silenced. We’re here to unwrap the shiny bow around adoption and speak our truths as adoptees. In doing so, we explain what it means and what it feels like to “come out of the fog”. This isn't your feel good podcast, we are angry, healing and honest adoptees.

Episodes

Thank you Tosha!

May 30, 2023 • 5 mins

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Adoptee Origin Story: Dr. Noelle

April 28, 2023 • 29 mins

Adoptee Origin Story: Dr. Noelle

Two white people raised me, an African American child. I’m Dr. Noelle and this is the secret-filled story of my adoption after being an orphan in Texas.

What we discussed

(00:00) Cosplaying as adoptees?

(01:35) The stories I was told

(05:30) My abusive adoptive mother

(06:15) Taking a DNA test to find my family

(09:42) They didn’t know I existed

(15:39) Whole for the first time in my life

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Adoptee Origin Story: Lia

April 14, 2023 • 30 mins

Adoptee Origin Story: Lia

I’m Lia and this is my adoptee origin story from foster care to reuniting with my siblings.

What I shared

(01:02) What I was told about my bio parents

(02:18) What actually happened

(04:59) My adoptive parents

(05:34) My birth father’s side of the story

(06:36) My access to adoption information

(10:04) Accessing my biological family name

(12:33) Meeting my siblings

(19:49) Aspirations for biologic...

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Adoptees & Mental Health

March 24, 2023 • 39 mins

Adoptees & Mental health

Why adoptees are more likely to commit suicide

Trigger Warning: Suicide, Suicidal ideation, Involuntary hospitalization

Adoptees are 4x more likely to commit suicide, in this episode we unpack why that is. Being an adoptee is a lifelong sentence, we have to cosplay as someone else’s child, ...

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Adoptees as Parents

March 10, 2023 • 31 mins

Adoptees as parents

Parenting as an adoptee

What’s it like when you’re adopted and then become a parent? We discuss the unexpected joys and reliefs of parenting, the mistakes we were almost programmed to make, how parenting can heal us, how to tell your children you’re adopted, and being careful about not placing a burden on our children that they ar...

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Adoptees & Identity

February 24, 2023 • 44 mins

Adoptees & Identity

For all our lives, our identities as adoptees have been stripped away from us. Our names changed, our blackness erased, and our birth certificates stolen. This episode we break down the ugly reality of having a fluid identity.

Adoption is about stripping us of our decision-making autonomy, so this episode is a call for us to recla...

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Blackness & Adoption

February 10, 2023 • 35 mins

Blackness and adoption

Adoption taught us anti-blackness

Being adopted makes us an “other” whether we were raised by white, black, or brown families. In this episode we talk about unlearning the anti-blackness we internalized as children, why black adoptees cost less than white adoptees, the parallels between adoption and slavery, and our experiences growi...

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An Open Letter to the People who Bought Me

February 9, 2023 • 33 mins

An open letter to the people who bought me

Yesterday I decided to text my adoptive parents that they failed me as parents, it was the first time I ever confronted them. I talk about how they responded in this episode and open up about being sexually assaulted as a child…then gaslighted. This was never my burden to carry, but they always blamed me. They used religion as a guise to avoid respo...

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Navigating Relationships as An Adoptee

January 27, 2023 • 32 mins

Most challenging parts of friendship and dating for adoptees

Why friendship and dating are so hard for adoptees

What friends and partners don’t understand about adoptees

As adoptees, we never want to rock the boat in any relationship we’re in be it with friends, family, or partners. The fear of abandonment is al...

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Adoption & Saviorism

January 13, 2023 • 25 mins

The fact that there are more rigorous mental health requirements for people who want to do weight loss surgeries than there are for adoptive parents is a shame. Adoptive parents think they’ve done us a huge favor and “saved” our lives, that without them we’d be worse off - that’s the lie the whole industry is built on. Holding up that lie is racism, colonialism, and narcissism. The adoption industry thrives on centering the ro...

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Grateful for What?

December 23, 2022 • 30 mins

Ungrateful Adoptees

No, I’m not grateful you adopted me.

Why would I be grateful for family separation? Why would I be grateful for being lied to about where I came from? Why would I be grateful for solving their infertility issues? It’s adoptive parents that should be grateful to have us, not the other way around. This episode is all about rejecting the tone-dead narrative of gra...

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It's A Family Reunion!

December 9, 2022 • 35 mins

It’s a Family Reunion

Family reunification for adoptees: our journeys, challenges and advice

Our family reunification stories (as adoptees)

Scouring through facebook, twitter, and adoption boards to find your biological family is a heavy journey. There are so many risks: what if they reject us again? What if they abandon us again? What if our adoptive parents feel of...

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Adoptees & Grief

November 25, 2022 • 30 mins

Adoptees and grief

Coping with grief as an adoptee

They change our name, our identity is erased. They don’t change it, we feel like outsiders. As adoptees, we don’t belong to any family…neither our adoptive family or biological family really gets us. In this episode, we talk about the many ways grief shows up for adoptees and talk about tools of coping with adoption including finding a...

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Welcome to Adoptees Crossing Lines

November 4, 2022 • 30 mins

NOT a feel good podcast about being adopted

We’re the not-so-feel-good show about adoption (coming out of the fog)

We are 3 people with 3 very different experiences of being adopted. In this podcast we deconstruct the romanticism holding up the adoption industry and expose the lies, abuse, and pain that get silenced. We’re here to unwrap the shiny bow around adoption and speak our truth...

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October 24, 2022 • 1 min

No, adoption isn’t magical.
No, I’m not grateful for being adopted.
Yes, being adopted is painful
Yes, adoption is trauma

This is the not-so-feel-good podcast where we reflect deeply on our experiences being adoptees and expose the pains inflicted by the adoption industry one episode at a time.

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Episodes

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Adoptee Origin Story: Lia

Adoptees & Mental Health

Adoptees as Parents

Adoptees & Identity

Blackness & Adoption

An Open Letter to the People who Bought Me

Navigating Relationships as An Adoptee

Adoption & Saviorism

Grateful for What?

It's A Family Reunion!

Adoptees & Grief

Welcome to Adoptees Crossing Lines

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