ORANGES MCGEE WRITES

I am a Korean-American adoptee and a cognitive neuroscientist. This blog is about the demand many of us grew up with: hold one story, live another. The authorized version said belonging was settled. The true one included a missing first chapter and a house where naming the gap made you the problem.

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I write about how that split lives in the brain and in adult life: attachment, parenting, friendship, identity, and the work of refusing to abandon the true account so the official one can stay tidy.