u/benjamini790

I'm white and was adopted when I was a toddler by my family who is Korean. I love my family, but I've always felt a little left out, especially by our extended family. We have family who live in Korea and they've come to visit us in the United States and we've gone to visit them, but they've always made weird comments about me being white. My immediate family I don't feel this at all with, they treat me as their own, but other people I've met in life seem to think it's weird for some reason. They have a different reaction to knowing I'm white and adopted by an Asian family than knowing an Asian is being adopted by a white family. I've also heard of a lot of transracial adoptions, but I've never heard much about Asians adopting white people, I have a few Asian friends who were adopted by white families, it's usually the other way around, I've never met anyone who was white and adopted by another culture, so I was just wondering if anyone here is.

I'm white and was adopted when I was a toddler by my family who is Korean. I love my family, but I've always felt a little left out, especially by our extended family. We have family who live in Korea and they've come to visit us in the United States and we've gone to visit them, but they've always made weird comments about me being white. My immediate family I don't feel this at all with, they treat me as their own, but other people I've met in life seem to think it's weird for some reason. They have a different reaction to knowing I'm white and adopted by an Asian family than knowing an Asian is being adopted by a white family. I've also heard of a lot of transracial adoptions, but I've never heard much about Asians adopting white people, I have a few Asian friends who were adopted by white families, it's usually the other way around and I was just wondering if I'm the only one. And if you are white and adopted by an Asian family or any other culture, do you also get weird reactions?

Sometimes in the mornings I'll make myself cereal and then go take a shower so when I come back the cereal will be soggy.

I was adopted by my dads when I was still a baby and they raised me to be pretty open to everything. They never took me to church, but they taught me about Christianity, and lately I've started feeling more of a pull towards it. I've only been to church a few times when I was in middle school and my friend invited me to his youth group, and people acted really weird when they found out that my parents are gay. I want to start going to church, and I'm trying to find somewhere that is okay with my family. Any advice on finding a church?

I'm looking into where I want to go to college and I'm not really sure. I want to go somewhere where they allow freshmen to have single rooms because I like my privacy and I get anxious when I have to share a room with other people because it feels like they're watching me. I just want a college where I don't have to go out of my comfort zone much, I'm really not trying to get out of it even though I know I probably should. I live in Tennessee, I don't want to go too far from home, but I'm okay with going maybe a couple states away. Anyone know of any colleges where I can kind of keep to myself?