Typical Twitter Story, But the AdoptionLand Team Makeup is Impressive!
So I was searching #adoption on Twitter like I do most every day, at least once. More if I am bored. I find Twitter to be entertaining while doing boring things like sitting in my car waiting for children, or waiting at a store. As long as I have my reading glasses and can actually see what is on my phone, searching for #adoption and the like opens up a whole new world of tweeters who, well, tweet, adoption rainbows and unicorn farts. Sometimes, I like to poke the unicorns with my sword of snark.
Planned Parenthood Director turned Pro-Life Advocate ? Hell ya!
I found this lovely bit of rainbow Kool-Aid.
According to her profile Abby is “Planned Parenthood Director turned Pro-Life Advocate! From Austin, TX · abbyjohnson.org” Really now? All those aborted fetuses getting to you? Do you hear their cries in your dreams?
I could not resist. I am going to hell. That’s a given. I’m OK with that.
Now, we must remember she is a former ABORTIONIST PROFESSIONAL, so she’s must KNOW better than I about things like MY LIFE. Especially as there must be GOD on her side!
Please tell me what to do. After all, I have had many years of training being a “good birthmother” Yes, yes, perhaps I just need an adoption Kool-Aid booster shot? Give it to me, Abby! I’m just JONESING hardcore for that Adoption Kool-Aid! Yum..Pro-Life flavor!! My fav-o-rite!
I love it when people tell you about your own experience. Oh right, you lived my life? Tell me more about what I feel. What SHOULD I do?? Credit. I need credit? What bullshit am I buying?
Will the Truth about Adoption Relinquish be Heard?
No.
OKso.. I say it sucks, but you tell me it’s beautiful. Or wait, is only the “choice” beautiful, coz you know.. I choose LIFE. But the aftermath CAN suck? Is that OK? Or do we just not give two shits about the LIFE after choosing “life”. You know, like the ideal of “life” is the beautiful part, but the reality of life can be ignored? Is that where we are going?
Ah yes, the expected, “I know people who say it is beautiful” dismissal. What is left unsaid: I know there for that you must be lying or crazy or bitter or all, so I can dismiss you now. Yes, tell me that losing my son was worth.. I don’t know $30,000 to the adoption agency?? It wasn’t worth it to me.. but wait… I don’t know what I am talking about. I only LIVED it. Got to keep that in mind!!
Yeah to the Backup Twitter Truth Team
Enter in Greg! Yes, our own Potential-AP–thinking-about-adoption infertile guy! I have now tribed him. He is one of us!
If that’s not enough, RandomMusings 23 comes ins. We had a rough start and she even inspired this. Needless to say, she has grown on me. Or I on her. Or Both. We get along fine now and are Twitter buddies. Maybe I just wear people down?
And let’s be fair and add in Shannon.. an adoptive mother. Always a fab retweeter and Twitter buddy! Love Shannon.
Now THAT’s a back up team!
Going back to logic? Perhaps actual BELIEVE the truth from people who actual had the experiences of losing a child to adoption?? I know SILLY ME! Silly Us. Are we just spinning our wheels?
Fine.. let’s try something that can encompass all. Maybe if I concede a tiny bit, I can get a tad of acknowledgement? Some validation? Come on! Give me something, Abby!
But alas, no… Abby .. and I admit I cannot type that name right now with out the visual of that horrible Abby Women from DanceMoms… isn’t talking now that there are a handful of us saying the same thing. In fact, I am having a hard time getting the screen shots from the whole conversation. I think she blocked some stuff, but NOT ENOUGH!!! Muahhahaha! I still got screen shots!
The Final Dig; YOU ARE A BIRTHMOTHER HERO!
Of course, she can add to the conversation when she gets more two cents added that fits her viewpoint. I kept this part in because after all of the previous conversations, @AbbyJohnson feels the need to stick to the course. She dismisses the opposite dissenting opinion yet again.
I will beat you DOWN with the hero label! YOU ARE A HERO. I don’t care what you say, Take the Cape! TAKE THE MUTHERFUCKING CAPE!
WEAR THE CAPE!! You are a BIRTHMTOHER HERO!!! WEAR THE CAPE!!!!
I love the Smell of Unicorn Farts in the Morning
Danielle, another birthmother, adds her welcomed bit. And we unload with some rainbow loving unicorn fart mockery.
Only if it comes with a cape. I’m gonna burn that damn cape.
Thanks, Greg! Thanks to all. Now who has matches?
Abby Johnson was about to get fired by Planned Parenthood when she quit and went over to the other side with a ridiculous story about witnessing an abortion which “Texas Monthly” magazine debunked. She’s now making quite a good living trying to take reproductive choices away from Texas women. Thank you for taking her on.
Ohhhhh.. thanks for the back ground info. I did not bother diggin on her, so that’s nice to know!
DENIAL helps everyone SURVIVE. Once the kool aid stops tasting good you have to develop new coping skills. I think many, many mothers and fathers who came first, adoptees and adoptive parents clutch denial like a security blanket…they/we must at all costs.
But, for some of us all of a sudden of gradually, the koolaid of denial ceases to work. We scramble, cry and scream and develop (over days and weeks and years) new coping skills that seem harder at first than that good ol’ denial but that with tears and hard work end up to be so much more healthy.
Some people are never going to get there no matter what anyone says, and sometimes I wonder why I got there and others don’t. Some people will use denial forever…it’s just too hard to “go there”. And it all looks rosy.
Meanwhile, while we look like idiots and people snicker behind our backs we know what is up. People are going to keep drinking the KoolAid until it stops tasting good, til it stops working, and they probably won’t be swayed by anything I say, and I wonder sometimes if it is my job to sway them or if I am obligated to speak my truth, even though I am more than happy to do so for those willing to listen.