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Late Discovery Adoptee

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This is who I am

Gallery

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Diana Dunning

This gallery contains 3 photos.

I’m clearing out ‘stuff’ including paintings by Dymphna, the person who for the first 43 years of my life, I believed was my mother. One of her paintings in particular irritates me. In it she has tried to capture my … Continue reading →

Posted in Adoptees | Tagged identity

Drawing trauma

Gallery

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Diana Dunning

This gallery contains 2 photos.

I am encouraged by creative potential and process. What started as a photograph of pieces of glass, became the milieu to explore, express, and externalise my daily experience as a late discovery adoptee. From January to August 2020 I worked … Continue reading →

Posted in Adoptees, art, healing, late discovery adoptee, trauma

Still Sitting under the Trauma tree

Gallery

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Diana Dunning

This gallery contains 4 photos.

My working life came to an abrupt end in April 2019. I could do it no longer, aware that I was becoming more reactive and despondent by the changes in the work space to an open plan office, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in adopted, Adoptees, adoption, Complex Trauma, Diana Dunning, IdentityRites, Late Discovery, late discovery adoptee, trauma

Blogs I Follow

  • The skeptic's kaddish
  • The adventures of “Aspy Girl”
  • The Broken Inside of Me
  • Lightning Droplets
  • WildDingo
  • landofgazillionadoptees.wordpress.com/
  • Daniel Drennan ElAwar
  • Kim Coull
  • adopteeidentityrites
  • soulscratchings
  • Beyond Two Worlds
  • I Sat in Silent Musing
  • Through the Eyes of an Adopted Kid
  • The Unpublished Chapters
  • Diary of a Not-So-Angry Asian Adoptee
  • LarryClow.com
  • Where Are You From?
  • Dear Birth Mother
  • The WordPress.com Blog

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The skeptic's kaddish

of a son

The adventures of “Aspy Girl”

living with ASD

The Broken Inside of Me

Secrets, Betrayal, Romance & Love, combined are the pieces of me

Lightning Droplets

Little flecks of inspiration and creativity

WildDingo

Late Discovery Adoptee

landofgazillionadoptees.wordpress.com/

Daniel Drennan ElAwar

Adoptee, rematriated.

Kim Coull

Poet, Writer, Artist, & Late Discovery Adoptee

adopteeidentityrites

adoptee and identity issues

soulscratchings

A hopeful student trying to navigate contemporary Canadian culture

Beyond Two Worlds

Musings of a Taiwanese-American Adoptee

I Sat in Silent Musing

A place to share my thoughts & my photography

Through the Eyes of an Adopted Kid

For those who are adopted or wonder what it's like to be adopted

The Unpublished Chapters

It feels good to be lost in the right direction.

Diary of a Not-So-Angry Asian Adoptee

Mom, wife, adoptee, advocate, former HuffPost contributor, and somewhat self-deprecating and neurotic goofball.

LarryClow.com

Where Are You From?

Where multicultural Australia comes together

Dear Birth Mother

Letters to the woman that gave me life and then chose to give me more

The WordPress.com Blog

Late Discovery Adoptee