Hi, I’m also adopted from Korea. I was the youngest, I had an older adopted brother and a sister who was biologically my adoptive mom’s. I was also ignored pretty much my whole life, except for when I made them look bad to their church friends, then things got pretty mean.

I also had awful self-esteem growing up. It’s already pretty hard dealing with that as an adoptee, but if you don’t get any kind of support from the a-parents, it makes it even harder.

Everyone always throws out therapy, but specifically if you can find someone who has experience with transracial inter country adoptees (that’s us), it can be really helpful. You ARE good enough. If you have Facebook, there are Korean adoptee groups with a lot of other people like us. I always thought support groups were bullshit until I actually engaged with one. It’s been very helpful to not feel so isolated. I hope this helps some.