What is it like to look in the mirror when you don’t know anyone you are biologically related to? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do most people look at themselves and have those quick thoughts about how they have their mother’s eyes or their father’s nose? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What do I think about? I question who I look like. I question what I will look like when I get older. Do my eyes look like my mother’s? Do I have any siblings? Do we look alike? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will I ever meet my family? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Realistically, I will never know or meet my biological family. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I will never know where I got my nose. Unless I have children biologically, I will never know anyone who shares my DNA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The thought is daunting. Sometime’s it debilitates me. It is so terrifying knowing there is a biological family out there, but you may never know them. If I have biological children, I will never be able to look at them and say, “Oh hey you have your grandmother’s nose!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mirrors may not be this triggering for non-adopted people. They may not look into them and think about their entire family history (or lack thereof). And no, not all adoptees think these things either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I do. I question where my family is. I question what they are doing. I question if they think of me. Maybe they do. Maybe they don’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But I will probably never know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is it like to look in the mirror when you don’t know anyone you are biologically related to? Do most people look…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[41,130,235,255,298,665],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption","tag-adoptee","tag-birth-family","tag-daily-thoughts","tag-dna-test","tag-genetics","tag-transracial-adoption"],"yoast_head":"\n