“I was born due to an (assumed) affair and shipped off for money. Sold. A cover-up due to embarrassment of my father’s mistakes. For the first time in 30 years I thought, ‘I have to find her. I have to find my birth mother.'”
‘Did she feel guilty abandoning me in a parking lot? Did she wonder about me? For the first time in 30 years I thought, ‘I have to find her.’: Adoptee reclaims identity in search for birth family
‘You should put her up for adoption.’ They thought my ‘deformities’ would ‘severely handicap’ me.’: Woman born with amniotic band syndrome is ‘not limited in ANY way’
“‘We just don’t know what to do.’ They thought I’d never be able to walk, run, or have normal brain function. I HAD to believe in myself.”
‘I gently lathered shampoo and rinsed. I felt a fullness in my fists, countless strands in tangled clumps among the suds.’: Woman with alopecia urges ‘losing hair doesn’t equal losing value’
“Over the following weeks, fishing clumps of hair from the drain became part of my routine. People commented, ‘What a waste of a body.’ This disease isn’t cruel, the stigma is.”
‘Mommy, I made a teacher cry today.’: Mom shares daughter’s touching act of kindness for classmate with Tourette’s syndrome
“She continued, ‘There’s a boy in my class with Tourette’s syndrome. Everyone laughs because he does weird things. Today, he fell to the ground, one of the things he does. I looked around and all these kids were laughing, so I walked up to him and laid down with him.’ The ugly tears started flowing.”
‘After all the miscarriages, the doctor said, ‘You’re pregnant, with TWINS!’ I about passed out.’: Mom births miracle twin, adopts miracle daughter
“Immediately after, I began looking into adoption. I refused to give up on having a daughter. Then we got the call: ‘We have a 9-month-old girl in need of a home.'”
‘At 11, I already had a gym membership and a trainer. I had 5 medications by age 13.’: Woman on weight loss journey says ‘I need to be the healthiest me’
“I’d walk my dog and people would scream things out of their car windows. I even lost out on job opportunities because I did not ‘look’ the part. It was time to do something.”
‘The 4-year-olds were BULLIES. He couldn’t tell us what was wrong.’: Mom urges ‘teach kindness’ for Autism Acceptance Month
“They were taking his device and hiding it, and when the teacher wasn’t looking, they’d push him down. I was floored.”
‘I cried and begged God, ‘Take this away from me, or take my life. I don’t want it.’ I knew my mom would never accept me.’: Queer woman urges ‘sexuality and religion can coincide’
“I was a caged bird in my small town with my religious mother, and now I was free, discovering my full potential. I realized Christianity and sexuality do not need to fight each other. They can live peacefully.”
‘Your son got into trouble.’ I tried to stay calm.’: Dad shares how to parent an ’emotionally troubled child’
“‘The ‘cool’ guys made fun of me.’ My heart BROKE for my son. But I also encouraged him. He needed to understand it’s NORMAL.”
‘With tears in his eyes, my boyfriend said my weight bothered him.’: 22 shocking comments plus-sized woman has received
“We’re in 2021. Time to wake up. Big girls are in. And fat isn’t a bad thing.”
