When can we watch this doco?

Adoptee worldwide speaking out against adoption to stop it happening to others

Yes yes please 🎉❤

Oh my gosh, tears…So look forward to this. 💕

Well said

Adopters were also lied too blank slate baby just like your own The requlishers put the adoptee in adoption unless baby scoop no sympathy from me evil is real alot of requlishers do not care Still adoption is all lies

Adoption is lies Relquishment unless baby scoop era i have no sympathy for you you probably a narcist

The day you were given away to strangers The day you were placed with strangers What a sick twisted world

No adoption No false second birth certificate with adopters name a lie No identity changed No calling no dna related and dna related birth. Lies No pretending father non exist or non intrested no person should be given away to strangers without fathers permission Strangers should be last choice

I see you can rent it, but can you purchase the video?

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😂😂😂

I got my Adoptee Army sweatshirt hoodie today & love it!

You’re absolutely right! Thx

Thank you! 😢😢❤❤❤

I think we all have our own trajectories. Some are more effed up than others. 😂 imo

It’s a crapshoot. If it works, it works. If not.. ugh. IMO

Adoption is unnatural! Bottom line.

Total I am such a bloody victim attitude pathetic. Get out in the world and live your life

What do people expect Adoptee Lost their entire family in one day Are issued a new false identity Are told to call non biological related and related birth Are issued with a false birth certificate Adoption is based on lies so that's why it does not work

The best fucked up video I have scene in a while❤

Thank you for sharing your adoptee experience about this, Autumn! I wish adoptive parents understood what you're saying more. If we were more on board with our adopted children, we would be able to help them find resources to find relief from at least some of the pain you're going through. But often in our ignorance or our inability to see the Truth in front of our eyes, we adoptive parents ADD ON trauma to our adopted kids. And that's not OK. Regarding your "effed up" poetry: I asked my first adoption therapist if adoption trauma is always THE THING - the root of the self-destructive behavior. And she said it's not necessarily always THE THING, but it's always A THING. If we can just acknowledge that, we'll already be one step ahead, right? And holy cow I can't wait to see you Autumn, Moses, Daria, Kira, and more wonderful adoptees IN PERSON next weekend at our OC screening. Tickets here: ReckoningOC.eventbrite.com Join us in person OR on Zoom for our 7pm PST screening on July 29, 2023.

the sound of the soul crying but also beauty and a lifetime of powerful and distant love, no matter what, love always prevails in one way or another xxxxxxx

Nancy and Dr paul Sunderland are willing to tell the truth about adoption

I thought I was the only one who hadn't done DNA? 😬 Thank you to DNAngels for supporting Autumn and the film!

I have met both of my birth parents. It was terrifying but went really well with both, better with my mother.

I think that I want to go to a support group at age 53 but I just want to talk and get ideas for healing. I have no interest in sitting around bashing either of my mothers and feeling sorry for myself. I suppose every support is different and I can always leave if the group is not a good fit.

So true. Spread the word ❤

Good job 👌!! Do not get left behind - 'promosm' .

Hi. I'm so interested in watching the lost sons documentary. Where can I watch it.

Given up by their original mothers? In Australia, no, babies were taken at birth.

Adoption legislation is a private colonisation. By law I was rendered FILIUS NULLIUS, "child of no one" and then the government chooses my Adopters and conspires by hiding my birth certificate and issue a new FAKE birth certificate stating I was born to a genetic stranger. This type of legislation needs to be binned in the SHAME bin of legislation based on POWER OVER OTHERS.

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Infertility has a distinct connection with narcissism… most adoption parents are infertile. So… it’s directly related to the home adoptees go into

Infertility has a distinct connection with narcissism… most adoption parents are infertile. So… it’s directly related to the home adoptees go into

So awesome, Autumn! The final version is something to be so proud of. Thank you for your labor of love for all of us!

The reform is family preservation FIRST! Preventing unnecessary adoptions by educating and informing Mothers of the real facts and hard truths of the adoption process including the trauma that separating a Mother and her baby inflicts on them both. Family preservation and open records for all adult adoptees is the right things to do. Mothers are deceived and coerced to relinquish under false pretenses and their children do not enter into any contract and should not be held to secrecy. No one has ever produced a document guaranteeing secrecy or anonymity. The indu$try is not based on truth or transparency and therefore needs complete and total reform with clear and concise regulation and legal consequences when ethics are not front and center when providing non-directive options to a Mother considering adoption for her baby.

Amazing! I will do my best to support you!

Thank you for all your work and effort 🙏🏻❤️🫂

I'm looking forward to watching the film

So when can we see it????

As an Australian Domestic adoptee from the closed adoption era (Forced Adoption era/Baby Scoop era), I first read ‘The Primal Wound’ 25 years ago. This reading was the first step for me in acquiring a vocabulary that explained and described my experience of adoption. ‘Reckoning with the Primal Wound’ helps elevate the conversation beyond the printed page with an intelligent and intimate portrait of the lived experience of relinquishment and removal. In centring the adoptee experience within this larger conversation it helps give a much-needed voice that is often not heard. What it helps to illustrate is that ‘adoption’ is in itself not a simple and singular event. It has a dramatic and ongoing effect throughout the lifetime of the individual. This effect is also then inherited by any future offspring. As this story unfolded on screen I was profoundly moved as I could see difficulties playing out, with questions being asked that were all too similar to my own experience and other adoptees I intimately know.

As an Australian Domestic adoptee from the closed adoption era (Forced Adoption era/Baby Scoop era), I first read ‘The Primal Wound’ 25 years ago. This reading was the first step for me in acquiring a vocabulary that explained and described my experience of adoption. ‘Reckoning with the Primal Wound’ helps elevate the conversation beyond the printed page with an intelligent and intimate portrait of the lived experience of relinquishment and removal. In centring the adoptee experience within this larger conversation it helps give a much-needed voice that is often not heard. What it helps to illustrate is that ‘adoption’ is in itself not a simple and singular event. It has a dramatic and ongoing effect throughout the lifetime of the individual. As this story unfolded on screen I was profoundly moved as I could see difficulties playing out, with questions being asked that were all too similar to my own experience and other adoptees I intimately know.

How can I view this film? I realize it's been screened at different film festivals and I visited your website but I cannot seem to find out how to watch it myself. Thanks so much. I am an adoptee and discovered The Primal Wound a year ago and finally am starting to make sense of my challenges in life.

Thank you for making this movie. I stumbled upon it today for a reason. I always think I've worked through all my trauma with my adoption, then a feeling pops up out of nowhere, the primal would came up and I found you. The general population needs to see it because they have no idea and no understanding. Trying to talk about it with non-adoptees, they don't have a clue. They don't know what language to use, how to reference your life, and your parents when commenting on your personal story, of being adopted, what it's like to be adopted. Adopted parents are seen as kind, wonderful, loving angels to take in a baby that is not theirs. We're told that we're special, someone chose us. What a crazy narrative that was created to make adoptive parents and adoptees feel better. I was recently told that parents who adopt children are angels, that they can take a child that's not theirs and love and accept it. I was horrified by her statement--educated people who are ignorant and clueless. However, I do get that some people want a baby so badly, that they do whatever it takes to get one, and maybe they should not be parents. But they need the baby to make their marriage work, to fit into their dream of life. Adoptees are the most marginalized segment of society. I'm an adoptee. I've observed and witnessed over the years, several people adopting children, it's mostly out of selfishness because they need their family to be complete. It's not adopting children who have no parents, or from impoverished countries, people who want their children to be raised in a better environment, sometimes people sell their children. What I've witnessed is people paying to get the baby of their dreams, that fits into their world to fill the voids in their lives. It's happened in my family, and I know several middle-aged couples who have adopted their first children recently because they've been married for a long time or alone, and they need that child to complete their family or their life. That's how I ended up with my adoptive parents.

Leaving us hanging with the question, “Should a child never be adopted” isn’t fair. I’ve been shut down with that question too many times to count, which feels like my trauma is being dismissed. I hope I live to see the day where adoption is a last resort and when needed, adoptees are empowered and society allows adoptees to process their grief and express themselves freely…and have complete access to their biological families should they so choose. I’m eager (but tentative, because it’s gonna open unattended wounds) to see this documentary. I’m so thankful for technology and social media that has given us the ability to mobilize the adoptee community and educate society. Thank you fellow adoptees, for the emotional labour you put into this kind of work. I see you.

Thank you making this ♥️