Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Kate and I Break It Down.

And today, I don't know if you guys have seen his videos.

I've seen his videos before I even knew him on TikTok and on Facebook.

But today we have a guest and I wanted to welcome Connor to the podcast.

Hello.

Hey.

Also known as Adopted Connor.

Sure.

My name's Connor how.

Like, I don't know.

On social media, it's adopted Connor.

Yeah.

Which is honestly how I, I mean, I saw the video show it to her.

And I was going to say, you started out really like, I mean, it was fast. I feel like it was about a year ago I started posting. Okay, but you already have a lot of followers. Something like that, yeah. Your content is like, I mean, it's pretty fast growing, in my opinion. Yeah. A lot of people that come out in this space and kind of talk about adoption. What made you want to like use the platform for that specifically? Yeah, that was my question.

Like what made you decide that, okay, there's a need for talking about adoption and educating people about adoption? Yeah, I mean, I've, you know, I've been, like, kind of in this space for a long time, but just kind of as an observer, I know a lot of people who are adopted. I've listened to a lot of people's stories on podcasts and all kinds of mediums. And for me, really, like, I, and it's similar to you guys, like, I was in an open adoption and I've seen so many people share their experiences about grand-up and closed adoptions or adoptions that don't look like mine. And I would read these books, listen to these podcasts and not everyone was saying

it but there's a big group of people that was saying like you know here's all the issues that

happened with adoption in the past past tense but now today things are so different because

open adoption exists and you know everything's so amazing and I was like well I don't really feel

like this you know I'd be in these support groups of people that didn't see their parents at all

growing up have never met their parents don't't know their parents' names. And,

like, I mean, I had a different experience than that. I knew who my mom was. I've seen her, you know, I can get into my story, but like I was in an open adoption. It wasn't like I saw her all the time, but I saw her. I knew who she was. She knew who I was. And I would still feel the same

feelings. I still felt no different than any of the other people that are in these support

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