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How late adoption disclosure destabilizes self-knowledge

I'm 35 and just learned I was adopted, and now I don't know which parts of my personality are 'real' or just copying my adoptive family.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Discovering biological origins in adulthood can retroactively question the authenticity of established personality traits and family resemblances.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Life transitions as identity events?”

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