Well, hello, guys. We are back again for Kate and I break it down.

I just want to say a huge thank you to all of the adoptees and birth parents that we had come and share their stories.

I don't think people understand how vulnerable that they have to be in order to share these things,

these intimate things.

And then on a platform, too, where people can judge you or take your stories and twist it and stuff.

But I just want to say a huge thank you to everybody that jumped on and um is helping just you know spread awareness and more education about adoption i think that

that is awesome and huge so definitely just want to say thank you to everybody because i don't think

people get how hard it really is i mean these people have lived these experiences and it's like i mean

it's well and it takes it takes guts yeah these experiences and it's like, I mean, it's Well, and it takes, it takes guts, you know? And it's like they come to us and we're filming it and

recording it and, you know, putting it out there for the world to listen to. That's hard.

I got people tell me that like their families get mad. Like they, like, they sent me messages that their family say, why would you do this? So even behind the scenes, adoptees are like being criticized for just sharing their truth or what they feel that, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Kind of like when you actually see that they take their own power and say something and tell their story and they literally have fan members saying try to shut them down

yeah what i think is the whole the whole point that they're just the one person in this whole

adoption triad that just gets completely silenced yeah and yeah nobody even wants to listen to them

and they're literally saying what is what has been good for them what has caused harm what has caused

trauma what they would

want to see different? Like, hello, it's coming out of the mouths of the people the most affected.

And so, like you said, for their family to get mad at them for talking about their own story,

is crazy. And if the family's getting mad at them, can you just imagine how the internet feels?

Because the internet, I think, is the most ruthless, cruel, uneducated, unformed, just completely.

I mean, I have never seen anyone or any kind of community react the way that the internet does when you talk about, if you don't talk about adoption being beautiful and amazing and awesome, you're the worst person on the planet.

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