Planet Adoptee

In this episode, we explore the neurological and emotional impacts of early touch deprivation in adopted infants. From disrupted attachment to long-term nervous system effects.

In this episode, I talk about the language people use around adoption and why some of it stings more than they realize.

Another episode in my continuing series of Adoptees (or Adoption) in Fiction,

I explore Les Misérables and how Fantine & Cosette’s story explores adoption loss and grief.

In this episode of Planet Adoptee, we take a closer look at the 2002 animated film Lilo & Stitch—a story that hits differently when you're adopted. From Lilo’s grief and isolation to Stitch’s chaotic journey to find belonging, this episode explores how two misfits, both dealing with abandonment in their own ways, find comfort, connection, and family in each other. It’s not just a cute Disney movie—it’s a deeply adoptee-coded story about being chosen when you feel unlovable, and the quiet power of being kept.

I changed things up to the intro and the format...Anyways, let’s talk about Annie - the orphan who sings through her trauma and gets adopted by a billionaire!!

This bonus episode is a little different.

I’m talking about how astrology helped me early on in my adoptee journey...

Content Warning:

This episode deals with heavy and potentially upsetting topics — including suicide, depression, and mental health struggles within the adoptee community.

In this episode of Adoptees in Fiction, we take a look at Batman...not as a superhero but as a child shaped by sudden loss. Bruce Wayne isn’t adopted, but his story is rooted in parental death, identity fracture, and the lifelong attempt to build meaning from trauma. We explore how his grief, emotional isolation, and obsession with control echo familiar patterns many adoptees recognize and what it means to create a persona to survive what was never processed.

In this episode, we look at Luke Skywalker through the adoptee lens. He’s raised with a partial truth about who he is, only to have that truth collapse in a single moment. We explore what it means to grow up with a curated story, the emotional rupture of late discovery, and how identity fractures and reforms after reunion. This one’s about withheld truth, destabilization, and learning to live with both versions of yourself.

In this episode, we explore Spock from Star Trek through the adoptee lens—not because he was adopted, but because his identity is split between two worlds. As a half-human, half-Vulcan navigating cultural rejection, suppressed emotion, and outsider status, Spock embodies the inner tension many adoptees feel: the sense of never fully belonging. We talk about rejection, identity fragmentation, and what integration looks like when the world demands you choose a side.