...that I started to find Asian women attractive? [Feminists, put down your pitchforks and torches...] Ever since I can remember - through my K-12 education - I was never attracted to Asian women. Maybe I was even scared of them...although I had many male Asian friends. Perhaps my memory has blotted out any attractiveness I did see?
But then this past winter I began to read more about adoption. I think Jane Trenka's first memoir was my gateway book into the entire discourse on adoption. Not coincidentally Asian women became attractive. Well, my school does have a very large (11% or so) international student population, many from Japan, South Korea and China. And, again, not coincidentally, this was around the time where the fact actually "dawned" on me that I had a birth mother. I guess I "knew" it all along, but I never really engaged with the reality of the statement.
Attractiveness, adoptedness, birth mothers...in other words...I've never seen a more Freudian thing in my life.
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