Encouragement, tips and resources for adoptees seeking to learn more about themselves, the journey and the process of reconnection.
Welcome to My Adopted Life. Here you will find resources on navigating adoption reunion and healing from identity-shattering events like learning you are adopted, dealing with the shock of a DNA surprise, or discovering you are donor-conceived. I have been in reunion with both my birth mother and birth father since 2010. I blog about my life as a black market baby and managing reunions with adoptive family and biological relatives.
I urge you to check out the resources section for links to books, talks, adoption support groups, and writing classes.
What one would call a Black Market Baby, my outside-the-system “adoption,” meant my “adoptive” parents never received my birth certificate, an adoption never took place, and the name I used never existed on any legal paperwork.
I am currently seeking representation for the memoir I wrote about being sold on the black market, solving my mystery, and the crippling consequences of growing up with parents who lived with the fear that someone might return to take back their baby. Thank you for stopping by. If you like, please sign up for my newsletter and leave a few comments while you’re here.
Thanks so much for visiting,
Patricia Knight Meyer
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
