I Survived Adoption Hooded Sweatshirt

I SURVIVED ADOPTION I CAN SURVIVE ANYTHING  This graphic design was inspired by Adoptee Merch founder, Pamela Karanova. What does “I SURVIVED ADOPTION I CAN SURVIVE ANYTHING” mean to me? I’ve survived many things in life, and multiple traumatic situations but for me being adopted has been by far the hardest, deepest, rawest most difficult trauma and wound I have experience to date. I don’t like to compare traumatic events but because I have experienced many I know first hand which ones I’ve been able to heal from, which ones I’ve been impacted by the most and how these traumas have impacted me in various ways over my lifetime. The reason this graphic design was so important to me is because we live in a world that glorifies the very same thing that causes adoptees trauma: ADOPTION.  I don’t think non-adoptees have ever had a reason to TRY to understand what it’s like to have your trauma celebrated by the world. I mean why would they? There is no other trauma but adoption that is glorif