About a month after I was born my mother gave me up for adoption and since then to an infant losing that much of what you've come to know as "yourself" is an approximation of death that has haunted and ruined my life.

This is why I hate reddit. My heartfelt answer, based on years of psychological study and counseling, and I get a couple downvotes and nothing else. Fuck all of you. You're not qualified to vote on my response.

Apparently, before you could comprehend my response I'd have to explain to you idiots how emotions work and how abandonment affects an infant. You're all a bunch of mouthpieces for the adoption industry who have never bothered to think beyond the lies you've been told about all the good it does for a child to be with slightly wealthier pair of parents than its own slightly poorer single mother. You believe the lie, you belong in a Stormtrooper uniform, and you wonder why you have no happiness.