It’s not that I think National Adoption Day should be dropped, it’s that it should be re-focused and renamed. The whole “National Adoption Month” needs a face-lift. Who better to make the world aware of adoption than adoptees? It doesn’t mean that we can’t celebrate the success of adoption but let that come from adoptees who actually feel their adoption was something to be celebrated! There may be a couple of them willing to do that…. one or two? If the whole point of this month is adoption awareness, then how come adoptees are completely left out of it? It’s all for us, right? Without our voices, it’s not a complete story therefore, not total awareness. But I see something powerful happening… I see adoptees finding the courage to speak out. What is happening is we are taking back this month and this day. Slowly but surely, this month/day will be talked about and marketed from our perspective, as it should be. We’re taking back the control and it feels really good. I am really late to this party, I must admit. I only heard about National Adoption Month last year and did not know the other side of adoption, the not so pretty side. I knew there were adoptees that were hurting and I wanted to help them; but as good as my intentions were, I was too naive to really know how to help them. Thankfully Twitter has opened up the world to me and now I know better of the different situations that hurt adoptees. I hope that it will be easier for me to help through my blog just by understanding more. The Declassified Adoptee posted an interview with Dr. L. DiAnne Borders, who came up with the Adoption-Reconstruction Phase Theory and I realized my whole life followed those 5 phases of what I call “realization”. I hope that it makes me a better blogger. I have always and still want to share your stories on my blog. I would love to publish interviews with your unique situation. If you’re interested, let me know! I know there are a LOT of adoptee bloggers out there who are powerful and are making a real difference in giving us confidence. We need to use the strength in our numbers and continue to “flip the script” on national adoption month/day. Let’s officially rename this month and day! It’s OUR time now.