by Here’s my answers to today’s questions at https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/139433.html
1. What sets you apart from your friends?
Two things:
– I several serious chronic illnesses that impact my ability to have a job or just live a life.
– I’m adopted. I’ve only ever personally known one person in my regular circles who was adopted too. She was a class mate of mine in comprehensive school.
I looked at the statistics from 1987-2023 out of curiosity and there were about 90-250 adoptions every year, not counting adoptions from abroad which added maybe another 200 to number per year. So adoptions are quite rare and they have been going down for a long time, too.
2. What sets you apart from your family?
Same answers as #1.
3. What sets you apart from your coworkers/fellow students?
I don’t have either now. Once I finished comprehensive school and started vocational school and then entered work life, I’ve never personally met anyone else who was also adopted or at least no one I got to know well enough to share what our families are like. I only once heard about a co-worker in one of my temp jobs about to adopt a child from abroad but I never met them as I was temping for that exactly that person. I’ve met people who know other people (usually one) who had adopted but meeting other adoptees out in the wild never happens… unless it’s a support group for adoptees or something else that is designed to bring them together.
4. What is the one thing about you that is most unique?
Not sure. If not counting the chronic illnesses and being adopted, the things that used to make me unique are pretty common now that fandom has gone mainstream and also because I don’t have the energy to be so active in fandom anymore.
5. What is your most interesting quality?
You’d have to ask that from somebody other than me!
