When a person who has not experienced being adopted and the challenges that come with it - feel a need to educate actual adoptees on their personal experience.

Bob told Lori she was "overreacting" for being upset that she has no idea what her biological background is and that she has abandonment issues. Bob is adoptionsplaining.

Adoptionsplain by Hbeee June 21, 2017

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Adoption means that you are put into a different home.

Adoption by Adoption February 28, 2019

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Adoption Catfishing

When you don't tell someone they're adopted their entire lives. They submit their DNA to ancestry and people tell them not to that it's fake and doesn't work anyway. And then their DNA comes back not matching their family and you tell them that it must be contaminated or they mixed up the kits.

The adoption catfishing ended at her adoptive mom's funeral. A well-meaning relative told her and now she gets to deal with her grief, the shock of finding out she's adopted and no one to ask questions to.

Adoption Catfishing by LordViper June 27, 2021

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