#adoptees — Public Fediverse posts

so, to summarize:
posts in the #adoptees of Bluesky feed come from people who have survived adoption, displacement, severance; and only adoption-focused posts that include certain hashtags or symbols go into the feed.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sfy6irvmfmnwxe4ouhrrn7a/post/3muvbmonjck2n

Adoptees are welcome to post to the feed, and they certainly don’t need to follow me! Anyone interested in posting to the feed just needs to let me know. And to get a post into the feed you need to include a hashtag like #adoption #adoptees #adopteesky or the 🥚 emoji.

The family reunion [for my adoptive family] is this weekend. The last time I attended a reunion was probably in 2007. I got married in 2008. I never had a spouse or boyfriend or friend to attend with me. Cousins within my age bracket rarely ever attended & if they did, they either hid away reading a book or were very much better than I at small talk, connecting with distant relatives they probably won't see again till next year. My grandmother was alive & I attended most of the reunions with her. I wanted to. Reunions were typically held at a state park where I could go on brief walks, hikes, play with a camera without making others [or me] feel weird. Late last year, I learned I have biological half-siblings... I'm not going to the a-family reunion this year, though it's been years... it somehow seems so wrong that I would be attending yet another family reunion without my siblings.

#adopteevoices #adoptees #adopteefam #justthoughts #braindump