Now for our final entitled parent story of this episode, my bio mums husband offered to adopt me.

I'm already adopted. I am 18 non-binary. I don't remember the exact ages of my bio-mum and her husband, but they're in their late 40s.

I'll call them Claire and Daniel.

For some background, Claire had me and my brother while she was an addict and had a lot of untreated issues,

bipolar, BPD, schizophrenia etc.

I won't go into a lot of detail because it's very heavy, but long story short, she married a bad man.

And because of his and her actions, she lost custody of us when we were five and we eventually got adopted when we were eight.

She divorced that man and is now married to Daniel.

Now on to the story.

Claire at the time had gotten diagnosed with a terminal illness so I'd agree to fly out there to visit her.

I'd never gotten super close with Daniel but we were relatively friendly.

At first the visit was okay everyone everyone was acting normally.

But then things kind of started to go downhill.

Claire asked if I would consider moving out there for the time she had left,

and I said I would consider it.

She seemed to be happy with that answer at first, along with Daniel, but then

it started going downhill. They started acting like I was definitely moving in and started trying

to make all of these decisions before I'd even decided, like wanting to go to the

Social Security office to see if I still qualified for insurance, etc.

It was hard for me to push back on it and set boundaries because I'm autistic and communication is hard,

so I just kind of brushed it off.

One night me and Claire were having a deep conversation and Daniel joined in, which led to him

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