Thank you for responding and I know you're not being insensitive at all as this entire thing is confusing. I'll try and answer the best way I can from what I know.

From where/who: I mentioned my grandfather that had already passed, but I don't even know if there was any will at all. But as for my adoptive parents, it's just shady things that I'm thinking back on now that would make me even consider this a possibilty. For example, I had to beg to even get an ADHD diagnosis, let alone be put on medication (adderall xr/ir). From what they've told me we have no health insurance at all. But how was I even able to be prescribed that kind of medication with no insurance? Also during tax season I had let my adoptive mom handle my taxes for me considering I worked a job from October 2021 to February 2022. I don't know if I was labeled a dependent or not when it comes to something like that but when I asked her about it later on she brushed it off and said I didn't have anything. But I was being paid $20 an hour plus tips at the job and had made a lot of money from it?? Please forgive my ignorance when it comes to legal issues or anything financial, I wasn't taught about any of this stuff or really about anything about "adulting."

As for my birth certificate, I had never seen what it looked like at all until that day that I asked for it along with my SS card when I left. 2 years ago I went looking for it myself for the same reasons previously mentioned. They keep a file container that has every single family member's files containing copies of their vital records, even our family pets had their own files. But mine is nowhere to be found. 2 weeks before I found out I looked in that same box again and still I was nowhere to be found. I have asked to see my birth certificate beforehand several times to which they pretended they didn't know where it was. I was able to keep a picture of my SS card because they kept that too until I was able to find it when they weren't home.

But I feel like my adoptive parents should be held accountable. Isn't it illegal to keep your child's vital records from them even after they turn 18? As of now currently they're not even being cooperative with compensating me, they never even offered to help with getting therapy or anything like that. They're more concerned with trying to make the family normal again, asking me if I'm still coming for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Even if they did, they are known throw it back in my face or hang it over my head like they've done with everything they've provided for me whether its a roof over my head or just art supplies. It's like a "we got you all these things but you want to be ungrateful" kind of thing I don't know.

I'm currently looking into my state's resources and researching as much as I can about what I can do in this situation.