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who all here is adopted? who knows their biological families?
i've been dying for people who are in my boat, but most adopted folk don't have AS or don't know their biological families.
i have as, i know my biological family, and my biological sister who i didn't meet till iw as 17 was dx'd last year (at 27). after struggling (i have had horrible prior experiences with 'therapy' and shrinks), i finally got dx'd over a year later.

between the adoption, knowing my biological family (the huge negatives and the only positive (my sister), the AS diagnosis, and the hearing impairment, i feel like i'm on my own little island here.

im not although i know how adopted people feel like. i hate my family and there all ret*d

... it's really not something you can understand without BEING adopted, really. it's not that simple (as hating your family). be careful what you say 'i know what that's like' to - - - the idea and the reality are not the same thing.

well i have had two stepdads and nobody in my family is related to me fully exept my two sisters so i do think i know what its like

that isn't the same as simply hating one's family, which is a story i've gotten tired of over the last ten plus years. :-p\

i think the part i'm emphasizing is that i grew up wholly without my sister who has AS. and we turned out totally the same, even though we didnt' know the other existed.

i want an older AS brother

finding amy at 17 was weird, because i am totally a hermit. so even though she is my sister, and is probably the most important family member to me, she isn't exempt from my hermit ways. which i feel bad about. :-/

It would make sense if I was adopted. I don't look like anyone in my family. I don't understand them. They don't understand me. But my parents say they got me the old-fashioned biological way.

Username88 is adopted, as are several others on here, and one, maybe two of them started threads asking the same question.

Hi, I'm adopted and have AS. You're not alone!

Me too. I was brought up knowing I was adopted but never told why. When I was old enough I had the records opened so I could find out more. It seems I have several half brothers and sisters out there somewhere but the trail is too cold - everyone had moved house so I could trace nobody.

It turned out that my biological mother and father were married when I was conceived - but unfortunately not to each other

Such is life.

Hi, RampionRampage and everyone else! I'm also adopted and so is my younger sister (she's an NT with ADHD) and I don't know anyone else in person who's adopted except for us. I don't have any information about my birth parents and I don't really care, though I'm incredibly curious to find out my cultural heritage. I'm also not sure whether or not I have Asperger's or just Sensory Integration Dysfunction. But it's still comforting to know there are other people on WS who are adopted and have AS. ^__^