I'm adopted too, known since I can remember as my parents always told me. I am VERY lucky to have the parents and family I have.
It's much harder in Canada to find your birth parents but the government freed things up a few years ago so I applied for and got my information. I was able to (after a lot of work) find my birth mother in Winnipeg and wrote to her. She seemed happy to hear from me and said she never forgot my birthday. Things were a lot different in the 60's as she was 18 and unwed. She came to Calgary to have me so no one would know, and gave me up right away.
I explained I wanted nothing more than contact with her, and left the ball in her court; if she wanted more contact with me other than the letters just write and I would send her all my contact information or I would not contact her again - she never wrote back.
No real skin off my nose as I said I have had a great upbringing.
I did find out I have a half brother in Ontario, but unless my birth mother tells him I don't know if I should contact him. Maybe if she passes.
My real name is Shane Rene
- Half Italian half Ukrainian, but I prefer to stay Irish and Welsh
Tread slowly....I know a girl who found her birth mother, only to findout she was a product of rape and her birth mother wanted nothing to do with her.