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I fucking hate when people try to say my brother isn’t really my brother bc he’s adopted. He’s just as much a member of our family as I am, blood doesn’t automatically equate to family. Plus he was adopted at birth, we’re the only family he’s ever had
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Anonymous 3w

I semi relate to this. When people find out I dont share a father with my siblings, they suddenly start calling them “half-siblings”. No, they’re not half of a person. I watched all 3 of those babies grow up into amazing people. They are my full siblings, whether we have the exact same parents or not.

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Anonymous 3w

I mean he’s your adoptive brother, you could love him more than some hypothetical genetic brother you’ve never met, but there are differences. Like if I was doing a genetic analysis of your family 200 years from now I would not call him your brother, I’d say he’s your adoptive brother. Family by blood isn’t everything, so why say people are a part of that when they aren’t anyway?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Nobody gives a fuck about what happens 200 years from now we’ll all be dead. The point is that NOW, CURRENTLY, adopted or not, he was raised as full part of the family and OP’s sibling.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

No, there are no differences. He’s my brother. People like you are the problem.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

You’re looking at it from a point of emotion while I’m looking at it in terms of genetics and language. I think the issue is you have some sort of weird and false deep seated idea that adopted family is somehow lesser than genetic family if this is such a problem for you

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

There’s no issue with calling him your adopted brother, my dad has an adopted sister and she literally prefers he call her that

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Nobody refers to their biological siblings as their biological siblings, so there’s no reason to refer to my brother as my adopted brother.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Well that’s implied when you say brother. I guess you just have a different idea of family from most people then, most ppl see family as a genetic thing. It’s the same reason people call the family they marry into their in laws

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

You’re the one with a different idea of family. Family shouldn’t be defined by just blood. Also people refer to their in laws as in laws when they have bad relationships with them, when they’re close with them it’s just their family

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

I mean that’s literally what family is tho lol, when my mom talks about my paternal grandpa she says my father in law not “dad” even tho she likes him. Ig we just have very diff ways of looking at it. When I think family I think blood. I also don’t think family is the most important thing, some ppl have crazy families they’d rather not talk to. Family is a word with a particular meaning like any other word imo, I’m closer to my friends than some of my cousins but that doesn’t make them my family

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