Societies Antisocial Ignorance of Dissociative Identity Disorder — Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! The 1999 film Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name, was received as one of the most controversial films of the year and has since gained strong cult popularity. The first line sets the dark mood for the entirety of the film. …

A boyhood Journey towards truth, self-discovery and acceptance. — After watching the above-titled movie twice, tonight, I reminded myself of the times I used to dream of what it would be like to be a child of a rock star? From the usual point of reference as a wish. We’ve all done it, haven’t we? From a place of…

There, I said it! But how can we heal it? — Do I need to say any more? Well, you’re here now. If you’ve gotten passed the title, you aren’t like the regular person that blindly blows past the issues that adoption raises. For that, I thank you.

Russia’s Mass Child Trafficking — Russia to fast-track adoptions of ‘forcibly deported’ Ukrainian children. According to various sources, the Russian occupiers have already forcibly removed 121,000 Ukrainian children. These are orphans and those who still have parents. The adoptee community saw this coming. Here’s an article I wrote days before the Russia — Ukraine war commenced. Russia — Ukraine War Orphans. What’s next? Where is the world heading?medium.com

She didn’t know what to throw away or what to keep! “Brenda’s Got a Baby” is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now (1991). The song was first released as a promotional CD single a month prior to the album’s release and then, in February…

Loss and Grief are the fundamental experiences of adoption. — The study of birth and death as existential transitions, comparing and contrasting these two life events from a ritual and embodied perspective, can reveal novel insights into spirituality. Firstly the importance of studying birth and death from an embodied, ritualized and symbolic perspective relates to several observations. …

Thank You to my Friends and Family. — I posted on Facebook on the 16th February 2022 publicly to express my experience of adoption to my friends in an effort to advocate for understanding and education. I did so after a pretty vicious altercation regarding LGBTQ surrogacy and adoption story. Where I originally replied with: We know surrogacy causes a newborn a purposeful…

A Transgression From Adoptee Phenomenology — WTF did he just say… Phenomenology is a philosophy of experience. For phenomenology, the ultimate source of all meaning and value is the lived experience. Although phenomenology seeks to be scientific, it does not attempt to study consciousness from the perspective of clinical psychology or neurology. Instead, it seeks through systematic reflection to determine the essential properties and structures of lived experience. A commonly cited criticism of adoption research is the failure to allow members…

What’s next? Where is the world heading? — Russia has troops surrounding parts of Ukrainian. and It’s completely evident that the Ukraine crisis is approaching a diplomatic roadblock. A military conflict is increasingly likely within the next 24 -48 hours. The World Day of War Orphans was on 6 January. It was started by the French organisation SOS…