| I
realize that this is a complaint site as I helped to create
it, but in order to understand the damage done to me by the
ATO, I must go back to the beginning. I've included a short
table of contents, but in order to truly understand, you really
must read from the beginning. I hope that you read it all, every
single page. I hope that when you're finished reading, you'll
be as angry as I am, as hurt that any group of people could
do to another person as what these people have done to my family
and I. Things, thoughts and feelings, that I thought I had put
behind me, things that I thought were long gone, have come back
to haunt me in more ways than one. This is my story, my life. |
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What you
have just read is the original introduction to this series
of articles. It has been a few years since this article was
written and the pain from this experience is long gone, the
memory however, will remain with me forever. While reorganizing
Justice Junction, I had considered removing this series of
articles as it really doesn't mean very much to me anymore.
Then I considered the thousands of other people affected by
adoption and realized that they still need to be aware of
the ATO and their practices. So, I've decided to leave the
pages up for now. In some ways, they also help to remind me
of the limitations of love, care and concern that people have
for one another - whether related by adoption or a "birth
parents" supposed love for a child given up for adoption.
Am I angry?
Bitter? Resentful? I used to be. With the help of a good,
caring minister and God, I have learned to forgive my birthmother
and the rest of my "biological" family. Everyone
makes mistakes - some learn from them and repent as I have
done while others would rather turn their backs on the one
that they have wronged in some feeble attempt to pretend the
act never happened and that's ok. If they can live with themselves,
who am I to judge?
I have
cleaned up the pages and deleted some others - there simply
is no sense in remaining angry and bitter. If I allowed that to happen, I'd end up just like my birthmother .. and that is never going to happen. So, again, here
is my story. |
