Boots Chantilly<p>animals & hoards guns. & me? I’ve spent 10s of 1000s of dollars in therapy, trying to repair the damage done to me by my adopters & the industry that cheerfully sold me to monsters. For profit.</p><p>The next time you feel compelled to blindly praise <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/adoption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adoption</span></a> (or adopters), pls think of me. & my adoptive brother. & all the adoptees silently bearing their grief, confusion, trauma & abuse. & all those who didn't--or won't--survive it. /end</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AdopteeVoices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdopteeVoices</span></a></p>