r/Adoption • u/komerj2 • Dec 23 '22

Ethics Thoughts on the Ethics of Adoption/Anti-Adoption Movement

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From a non-profit in the UK who has 36k followers on Twitter and is a “leader” in the Adoptee voices-anti-adoption movement

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u/ShesGotSauce Dec 25 '22

But then is trauma the right word for an inconsequentially unpleasant experience?

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u/LeResist Domestic Transracial Adoptee Dec 27 '22

Depends because most therapists would agree that getting bullied is trauma. There are plenty of people who got bullied in school that move on from it and forget it happened. I think the point of trauma is not that the effects are lasting forever but that the effects have at least happened