19-year-old finds out she's adopted at 17, adoptive parents rage after she meets her bio mom and reveals her anger at the secret: 'My parents treated me as ungrateful for asking questions'

While being a parent under any circumstances is a huge responsibility, there are some instances where parental duties are even heavier than usual. For obvious reasons, one example of this is those who choose to adopt children. Not only does this mean that you are agreeing to raise a child, but also that you are willing to deal with any issues that arise when it comes to their birth family. Every adoption scenario is different, but it is usually something that can't be ignored.

However, that doesn't stop some adoptive families from trying their best to do exactly that. In some ways, it is understandable to want to keep things simple, but that doesn't mean that it's right, or that things will always stay this way. Most adopted children find out about their past sooner or later, even if they were adopted when they were too young to remember anything about it.

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This is exactly what happened to one young woman after her grandfather accidentally revealed she was adopted when she was seventeen. While it made some parts of her childhood make sense, she was still curious to find out more and ended up tracing her birth mother over the next couple of years, and eventually meeting her family.
For a long time, she kept this activity a secret but she eventually felt the need to tell her adoptive parents. They were initially surprised at what she had done, then angry when she talked about being upset that this secret was kept from her. It led their daughter to question if she had been unreasonable.
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AITA for telling my adoptive parents I feel anger towards them?

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The community sympathized with her difficult situation.

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