Question about identity
Hi everyone, thank you for your very interesting posts and responses. I hope my question doesn’t appear offensive, it’s sincerely not my intention, I’m only seeking to educate myself. As I read posts from this subreddit as well as donorconceived subreddit, I see that a lot of DCP here feel like they “miss half of their identity”, that “half of me is missing” or “fake”. This defers from my lived experience and from what I read in other sources. Feeling this way implies, it seems to me, that you feel like your donor, even if you never met them, is half of you, that your parent who is also your genetic parent is the other half, and, therefore, that your legal/gestational/raising parent who doesn’t share your DNA is nothing at all, not related at all to you and not any part of you. Am I misinterpreting or misunderstanding? If not, what led you to see things this way?