adoption - A Boy In Letters

The Final Word Is Here In My Hands

Content note This poem discusses childhood abuse and neglect, foster care, disability, trauma, depression, and suicidal thoughts. These topics may be upsetting or triggering for some readers. Please take care…

Autism Mental health Mutism Personal Experiences

Get to know me

I’ve wanted to do this for ages, but I kept getting too busy or just forgetting. But it’s finally here—a huge list of questions and answers with loads of details…

Personal Experiences Poem poetry

Someone Worth Holding On To

Foreword / Introduction Sometimes people forget that foster care isn’t just hard for the children in the system who come and go. It’s hard for the children who are already…

Personal Experiences Poem poetry

Why would you want a broken child like me?

Foreword / Introduction This poem speaks where I cannot. It's part of my series sharing my raw feelings about foster care and adoption. To my adoptive parents: I mean no…

Autism Mental health Mutism Personal Experiences poetry

You weren’t there! You don’t know what I went through!

Foreword / Introduction This is my first poem that's just from my gut feelings, not like the political ones I usually write. It's gonna be about my real emotions, so…