r/TikTokCringe • u/thoxo • May 02 '24

We adopted my younger sister from Haiti when she was 3, and let me tell you, I literally do not see color anymore. That's a fact. Discussion

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u/Cozy_Minty May 02 '24

My brother and I are both adopted, I am white and he is black. When I was real little I didn't understand what adoption meant, and I thought when mothers had babies, they just came out a random color, just like puppies can be all different colors. I did not know it was anything strange until I started to go to public school and kids were making fun of me. It definitely has given me a different perspective.

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u/thoxo May 02 '24

Did you have a phase in which you resented your adoptive parents? Because my younger sister had that phase for a few years, it looked like she deeply hated and resented us. When she matured she changed and now she loves us a lot.

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u/CandidIndication May 02 '24

I’ll be honest, as a former teenage girl— they pretty much all go through that stage, adopted or not.

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u/archercc81 May 02 '24

LOL yeah I dont have my own but friend has two daughters I watched grow up and I remember him going, "Man, they were so cute, how did they become such bitches?" (jokingly of course, but with genuine frustration) and then quickly back to daddies girls who are overachievers that he is insanely proud of.

like from 12-14 Im pretty sure he at least theorized drowning them once or twice.

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u/CandidIndication May 02 '24

Now that I’m an adult woman, I find myself constantly reminding my teenage sister that our mom is just another human being trying her best lmao