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Temple Grandin, Cows and Autism

Submitted by AngelaW on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 22:37
  • Autism
  • HBO movie
  • Intercountry adoption
  • International adoption
  • Special needs
  • Ukraine

temple grandinSaturday night I saw down with my family to watch a biopic for Temple Grandin. I have been reading about Dr Template Grandin for years and years. I expected to love it ... and I did. It is a must-see movie.

Temple is a highly successful 62-year old woman with autism. She invented a career for herself in the cattle industry. She has transformed how autism is seen and how cows (and many other prey animals) are handled.

The movie quickly moved from "4-year old Temple being diagnosed with autism" to "33-year old Temple with a masters degree  in animal science."  

Sensory integration disorder was clearly explained. This is such a hard issue for people to understand. I still remember issues that happened in first grade. So I explained SID to Natasha's  first grade teacher. Seriously... the teacher thought that I was making it up... to excuse Natasha's bad behavior. (ARGH!)

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Hole In My Heart, Adoptee Talks

Submitted by AngelaW on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 22:39
  • Adoptees
  • Clean House
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Clean House is a reality show. A team of people clean up a family's clutter. And the show's host Niecy chats with the adults in the family. Niecy's goal is to get the family to acknowledge what caused the clutter. A very messy house tends to be an external expression of internal distress.

Watching The Jones Family episode of Clean House made me cry. The mother just couldn't hear her daughter. The failure to communication was painful to watch. Adoption is mentioned.

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Adoption Disruption Not Necessarily Bad

Submitted by AngelaW on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:00
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If an attorney does not have any disrupted adoptions, is this a good thing? What if an adoption attorney had more than a few disrupted adoptions. Does this make him a bad attorney?

Should the attorney be asked why the adoptions were disrupted? Seems to me the reason is more relevant than a number.

Maybe an attorney had to disrupt the adoption on ethical grounds. In my eyes this would not make him a bad attorney; this type of attorney would be placing the rights of the child in front and center.

.... I do not think a disruption should be viewed as a necessarily bad thing.

- unknown father

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Dear Twitter Adoptee

Submitted by AngelaW on Sun, 04/26/2009 - 13:46
  • Adoptees
  • twitter

twitter dear adopteeDear Twitter Adoptee, my thoughts were too complex to express in 140 characters. I tried but I couldn't pack enough meaning into a tweet.

It does seem random for us to connect via twitter. I found you because someone was mean to you on an "adoption" blog. This drove you to vent tweet on adoption. I replied to your tweet. Then you replied to me.

People say that twitter may replace google for a search engine. I don't think it will, but I admit that twitter is a source for daily news.

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Changing Adopted Child's Name, Keeping The Past Alive

Submitted by AngelaW on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 21:15
  • Adoptee rights
  • Adoption basics
  • International adoption
  • international birth certificate
  • reasons to change name
  • Ukraine

Natasha in park love spring blue dress Kathleen30 said:

I am an international adoptee, I feel changing a childs name completely is stripping them of their heritage or what will soon be left of it...Have a name from that part of the country and incorporate it with a name to where they will be settling.

Sometimes that is the only link the child will ever have to their birth parents and that is being stripped away. This also goes for domestic adoption.

from: Adoption Baby Names With Nicknames: Annabelle

There are 2 easy ways to get an adoptive parent email list excited. Ask:

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