I previously used ChatGPT to analyse WhatsApp messages from my mother running from January through to March to identify abusive behaviour. I have been using ChatGPT and AI an increasing amount, and it is interesting to see how it deals with different requests. My mother is writing an autobiography, and in the early days of … Read more
This is not strictly related to adoption, but it is related to my mental health breakdown that occurred to my perceived emotional abuse from my birth mother. I am one of those people that will be kept up at night by random thoughts, and this is where this idea came from. One of the issues … Read more
I originally posted this one on a Facebook group, but it was auto-modded out, and I hate to waste things I have written. A lot of this post repeats what I have written in a couple of my earlier posts. I imagine this will be a trend as I constantly replay the difficulties in my … Read more
I spent my entire life thinking, or telling myself, that my adoption didn’t matter to me. My parents told me about it as soon as I was able to understand, and as far as I was concerned, they were my parents. However, I was never particularly close to them, and I wasn’t able to love … Read more
While I would prefer not to dox myself, I am UK based, I think this is pertinent information as so much adoption literature is written in the context of US adoptees. From what I have read, the US has a bit of a troubled past with adoption, with young women forced into adoption and the … Read more
I have spent a lot of time trying to process my thoughts on this relationship and understand why it caused so much damage when I was never interested in my birth family in the first place. Many people have suggested that I am being harsh on my birth mother or not understanding why I have … Read more
I decided to start this website more for myself and not specifically for other people to read. If you happen to come across this website, this post is to try and give you some idea why I am doing this. Please note that because I am mainly writing this for myself, I am not overly … Read more