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Would you consider fostering a child in the future?
I have already fostered one or more children
Yes, I would consider fostering one or more children
No, but I would consider adopting a child
No, I wouldn't consider fostering or adopting a child
I just want a family… totally not jealous all the time each time I see one
Can’t wait to have my own!! And I get to choose who I get to do that with! I don’t even want a big one just another person would do (I’ve lived alone since i aged out the system)
I love imaging how our house would be and how quiet and gentle we could have it I don’t know I just think about it a lot. Especially the simple things like getting to cook together… a kitchen so full of life where no one needs to yell or argue somewhere safe.
(Apologies for this soppy post :)
does anyone have any tips about foster care or the cps system in general?
im a minor (usa, not saying my state nor specific age on here for safety reasons). i am being emotionally abused by my mother.
a cps case is currently open. i have a notebook documenting about a month’s worth of emotional abuse and just daily life. i mentioned it several times to people (interviewer and the person who im assuming was my caseworker or maybe just a social worker) but no one has even looked at it or asked for it. i have never (to my knowledge) been physically abused by my mother. i was recently taken to get a psych evaluation. i was strongly recommended family therapy but i denied wanting it.
most people who i have told about the emotional abuse have seen it at most as a disagreement. i am not dumb. i can tell when people don’t believe me or are not ‘safe’ (for lack of a better word).
i currently do not want to get formally diagnosed with anything i have self-diagnosed myself with (DID, autism, ADHD, etc.) because my mother may use that as leverage in arguments or to gaslight me with.
i have no relatives to live with that are able to take me and my little sister in, and my father passed away when i was much younger.
i will not go into detail on the emotional abuse here, but i may answer some questions about it if it applies to a tip or to answer a question i or someone else has.
i want to go into foster care with my little sister, but i was told i could not because it was not physical. they sent me home with my emotionally abusive mother.
i have narrowly avoided a few breakdowns because if i get angry i know i will be labeled as “explosive”, “violent”, or a “problem child”, which could absolutely hurt my side of things and make even more people think that i am just “overreacting” about the abuse.
how would i convince them (basically just any person with relation to my case) that the emotional abuse is happening? almost nobody believes me as of now. how would i go about getting into foster care with my little sister?
i will update if i have the energy to. thank you all and stay safe.
All I want in life is an eyebrow piercing, but I can’t get one:(
My legal guardian lowkey strict😔
Fanfic writers. Hello. When you need to add angst to a story, consider not being like "oh he was in foster care! How fucked up is that?" without at the very LEAST doing some research and/or talking to a foster kid about their experiences.
I'm not the spokesperson for foster kids but I speak for all of us when I ask that you maybe stop using it as a cheap sob story to whump your blorbos with. Foster care is not inherently bad, nor does every child in the system have a bad experience.
Also! If you want to use foster care as a storytelling device, maybe keep that same energy when it comes to educating yourself about foster care, donating to organizations (if you're able), and raising awareness.
If you have any questions at all about foster care, my experience, or how to write it realistically and gracefully in your fanfiction, don't hesitate to reach out to me.
Here are some of my favorite organizations that have helped me personally. Please support them if you can.
Can I just say I HATE how everything holds memories. Every fucking thing.
I just listened to New Perspective by p!atd for the first time since 2014.
In 2014 I was 14 and in foster care, in what was supposed to be a short-term group home, this 👌 fucking close to offing myself. I had lost everyone and everything because my mother was an addict and my family is religious, and I wanted to be myself and be honest with them.
I grew close with people that I never spoke to again. I screamed the lyrics to New Perspective in the car because there were so few songs that made me feel.
"Stop there, and let me correct it- I wanna live my life from a new perspective"
That was all I wanted. To be able to look at my life and not feel pity. Not feel broken. Not feel lost and abandoned and confused and
Alone.
Every friend I made was gone in a matter of weeks and meanwhile I stayed.
Eventually I stopped caring. Friends and I would skip school and speed over the bridge with our windows down, screaming-
"Stop there, and let me correct it, I want to live my life from a new perspective-"
Because they were broken too. Because we were broken together.
I have so much more to say but it's hard to put into words.
I hate how everything holds memories.
There is something so odd about writing college application essays like ah yes let me summarize some of the most traumatic life altering things in a way that doesn’t make me seem traumatized but like I’ve overcome my trauma while still living through some of it in less than 300 words
