In this conversation I am talking to Chelle, and our conversation hits many different points. She told me how her open started out as open, but her adopters closed it within the first few months of her life, how she was thrust into reunion when she was a teen because of issues at home, and eventually became a pert of the trouble teen industry when her adoptive parents decided they couldn't deal anymore, and she was sent to an all girls center for troubled teens. They were dehumanized, isolated even from each other, and made to work. We also talk about how she asked her birth dad to re-adopt her! 

And she told me how she is involved in the online adoption community today. 

You can find her on Instagram at @myalteredadoption

And she is a moderator for the Facebook group Adopted Chameleons

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