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What are characteristics common to adoptees?

Just wondering what you all think either from personal experience or your knowledge of research etc...
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I was thinking more along the lines of personality traits. I should have worded this differently. :)


    




Flying Monkey #073177
Over achievers
Low self esteem
Denial
People pleasing
Relationship difficulties
Self harm, ie. substance abuse, eating disorders, self mutilation
Depression
Trying to project/obtain perfection
Fear of intimacy
Fear of abandonment


BOTZ
We have lost our mothers.


Mom to Foster Children
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They have lost...

Their mothers
Their fathers
Their family
Their history
Their sense of belonging
Their sense of self
Their lives

Just to name a few


kateiskate
andraya pretty much hit the nail on the head.


allen.rench
Sounds like most of those characteristics listed here are as much common in children in broken homes as in adoptees.


sunny
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A lot that Andraya mentioned.

Many of us are very empathic.


gibberish
None my dear!! To think that adoption CHANGES your personality is hogwash! People are people and adoption has nothing to do with it!!





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