Explore the often-overlooked impact of pre-verbal trauma on adopted individuals. Learn about potential prenatal, birth, and postnatal experiences that can leave lasting imprints.

Hey Awesome Adoptees! Let's gather 'round the virtual campfire (marshmallows not included, sadly, blame the internet). Today, we're tackling a feeling that might bubble up every now and then, like that weird uncle at Thanksgiving who insists on telling the same joke every year: the feeling of being a missing piece.

"Do you have any family history of...?" For most, it's a matter of recalling grandparents, aunts, uncles, a quick mental inventory of inherited predispositions. For me, an adoptee, it's a vast, echoing silence. It's the ghost in my genes, the medical narrative I can't access, the missing chapter in my own health story.