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Today, I’m in a training to help local clinicians become more competent in the field of Adoption. While I don’t do therapy per se, my degree is clinical – and while my role is less clinical than a therapist’s, I do find myself considering clinical issues and the impact adoption has not only on the children but the families as well. One of the topics we tackled today was about feeling different.

The topic struck me as both pertinent and silly at the same time. Of course a child who is adopted has the potential to feel different, but truly, can you show me ANY child who, at some point, does not feel that they are different?

For that matter, can you find me any adult today who doesn’t still feel, to some degree, different? The saying makes me smile every time, but how true – “You’re unique… Just like everyone else.”

And yet, those differences, those uniquenesses, truly make us more alike than we can ever imagine.