Generalizations, how they don’t help
We have this saying in the Autism community. “If you have seen a child with Autism, you have seen A child with Autism.” You have seen one child. Why one? Because no two kids are exactly alike, including twins. So why would it be any different for an adopted child? David is adopted. David has, among other things, Reactive Attachment Disorder. I am adopted, I can see similarities in my behaviors as a child to David, just not as severe. I know of a couple of other people, both children and adults, who are adopted. You know what? Unless you know that they are adopted, you can’t tell. It isn’t like they have this tattoo on their arm, like a bar code or something that says “adopted”. Why do I bring this up? If you have seen one child that is adopted, one person that is adopted, you have see