A Korean Adoptee And Her Paintings

Hi, my name is Jenna. Adopted from Seoul, Korea. I wanted to start this blog for other adoptees and myself. To capture my life and thoughts, feelings and advice to other adoptees!oh yeah... I'm an artist as well. Check out my paintings!

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My second cousin who is also a korean adoptee focund me through the 23 and me DNA test!!! Whooo!! The closest family I’ve ever found!! Happy ☺️

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I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!! From the Newton Fam- Jen + Norm 💚

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::Adoption Awareness month thoughts::

Hi all! Please if you have any comments, thoughts, and if you’d like to share your adoption story with me. Please PM anytime. Also, I can’t speak for eveyone but for myself, I find it a weird month for me. Adoption Awareness month is great! I love it. It can also be a hard month... it gets me thinking about adoption and thinking about others who were as well. I try to help in any way I can. To lend my support and thoughts. If anyone needs help or need to talk ever. Please do not hesitate to PM me.

I find it a hard month because thinking about adoption makes me go over everything about my adoption story. My journey- what it has been like for me, what I have been through, what I face. I think about so much to do with adoption .. I️ can be quiet and that is unlike me.

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Adoption support

I just want to say... I know there are great adoptive parents out there are I have heard stories of horrible ones. If you adopt a child, you need to support, protect and love your child no matter what. Even if adopted or blood ... growing up and being in a positive and loving supportive educational and a great environment overall.. seems best for a child. I don’t have children.. BUT what I do know , is what my experiences were growing up as an adoptive child.

Deat Parents: Please, adoption is a very high privelage and is very exciting to have a child, especially if you cannot bear a child on your own or some other circumstances. Before adoption, you need to understand, you need to love this child no matter what- adopted children may have a harder one adjusting (depending on age of adoption) and (what they went through already), it’s hard enough deep down in our internal self that we were ripped away from our mother and not even knowing her. The need of wanting to know or see or to be pulled toward wanting information about our mother or father is just natural. Some adoptees I know do not want to know anything about their parents or want to search for anything and are content. Which is perfectly fine but some do. Please do not ruin it for your child that wants to search. Curiosity is a virtue. It’s natural. I was never curious or wanted to for years. I actually had anger and hate toward my adoption story and had issues around it.

FYI, it is hard enough that most adoptees are adopted through another family of a different race. Which is great but we need the parents to teach both cultures. Both their own and the families. If you can please put your child in language classes, I wish I was able to now that I am older. If you can go back when they are older together ,to the country they were born. Gives more open mind and light to where they are from!

Also, parents- just love love love . Support and be there. You don’t understand what they are going through unless you have- don’t say you understand. Just be supportive and if you have a problem with your adoptive child searching or have any racial issues between the family and the adoptee. SHAME ON YOU! yes I said it. SHAME FUCKING SHAME. Adoptees already go though lots with not knowing where they came from and feeling as if they are a outcast- in my circumstance u did sometimes - I feel that is why I had issues as a child- I knew I was korean but didn’t know much about my culture. I was raised in a white family- but race never crossed my mind- I would get made fun of in class and by others for being asian. Which is Fucking rediculous. How fuckin racist our country is. Anyway- that is a topic on its own. But I am going to say this. When I got made fun of- they would call me names but always in my mind- I was just like them , I never looked at color of skin or anything- I would think..” I am just like you”. I never looked at color of skin or distinguished .. we are all people and that’s all I thought as a middle schooler. It is a shame that a young person has to go through this at such a young age.

Parents- please please, it can be rough raising an adopted child just as any child for that matter- I️ assume!! but if you have underlying issues about what they can or cannot do - if it has to do with their adoption - and you don’t want them searching or you have a problem with them searching or gathering or doing anything with their adoption... DONT ADOPT- OR IM SORRY YOU SHOULD NEVER OF ADOPTED. Taking a child from a bad situation into a new one? How is this fair ?!?!!!!!

THINK ABOUT THIS SHIT- I could talk all day peeps. PM IF YOU WANT- tell me how you feel.

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Happy adoption awareness month.

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Adoption awareness month

Hey y’all! It’s adoption awareness month!

I hope all is well with all you adoptees! I hope we can educate more bout adoption and also talk and speak out about our journeys,stories, feelings.. etc! Talk to me! Let me know how you feel, a quote, your adoption story. Go to my IG account : koreanadoptee255 or email me : [email protected]

I am doing research and working on gathering information and statements from other adoptees to incorporate in my future short stories! Thank you!

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Happy national adoption awareness month

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Anyone else know the feeling?!

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Thought of the week ...

You know what I hate the most.. when people ask me ,"where are you from?" And I reply, "Columbus." And they say , "no like where you from..?" And I respond again with the same answer and they ask me again ... And I want to roll my eyes me say," like ! mother fucking Columbus! , now if you wanted to ask me my ethnicity then why don't you just ask it or is that too big of a word for you to say?" Or I love how people ask me .." oh, you are adopted.." so.." North or South Korea?" And even sometimes laugh...I mean ... really? Are you trying to be ignorant and an asshole? It get old, just sayin...

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To my other fellow adoptees.. Who knows how strong our connections are when us other adoptees meet🙌🏼

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Yes!! ✊🏼

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Korean War memorial in DC

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Truths

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Yes!!!