Our schoolies was Rotto or Dunsborough but otherwise the same deal

Yay for awesome WA stuff! I gre up out near Kalgoorlie and we did the folk song thing driving to Perth many times during school holidays

Run the sausage sizzle at your local school on election day (will accept lamington drive)

OH, another quintessentially Australian thing:

Not much to add to the conversation here other than I once played the Platypus in a primary school performance of Wombat Stew, which is a pretty Australian thing to do, other than spend the day at the beach on Australia Day.

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my mom used to threaten to pull the car over and kick out whichever of the three of us was causing the drama. i finally called her bluff once as a teen, and she actually did it! although we were a few blocks from home so it didnt really matter...

Never utter a threat you aren’t willing to carry out.

“For reasons you don’t want to read about, our m kids don’t have an iPad.”

I just want to point this out. You know who’s not represented on that stage? Non-blonde women.

Why is no one else freaking out about this??????

Yeah. I’d also like my unicorn pink, thank you very much.

Yes! It’s amazing to me how people can think of this in such cut-and-dry terms. As if somehow all the tidy paperwork erases the trauma that’s inevitably felt by an infant taken away from the person who carried them and birthed them. We are mammals, like any other. And the physical severance of an infant from its…

How and why is it privileging one over the other? Loving an adoptive parent is not mutually exclusive with wanting to know about one’s biological origins. These false dichotomies we set up (Do I love my adoptive family? vs. Am I curious about, or *gasp* also perhaps even CARE about/love my biological family?) are…

Parents who relinquish their parental rights to their children are NOT automatically legally granted anonymity. If you actually take a look at the laws in the vast majority of states, the concealment of biological parents’ identities and of the relinquished child’s original birth certificate only happens AFTER a…

For years teen parents and poor parents did not have a choice to put their children up for adoption. Their kids were taken from them because they were unmarried, poor, or non-white. And it’s not stopped today. There are still teen girls bullied into putting up their babies for adoption to wealthy people with promises…

Are you adopted?

When I tracked down my biological mother, it was very important to me that her privacy was respected. I had an intermediary reach out first in order to see how receptive she was to the idea before I went forward. Unfortunately, though, some people won’t think like that and they just show up one day, completely…

I was adopted, I located my birth mother myself and all things considered it went pretty well. That said, it’s not a game and if you were adopted and considering a search you had better be prepared for the consequences which are not always “awwwww”-worthy. I became friendly with a few counselors and searchers during…

Or, in my case, they find you on the internet, email back and forth with you for a few weeks and then just ghost on out, leaving you to wonder if it’s because you told her you’re queer or...

I was interviewed for this show- a friend of mine and I found out that we were actually half sisters (my mom had given her up for adoption, I knew about it but not who, years and years later friend and I have a random conversation and oh look at that, my mysterious half sis is my friend, who I met in my 30's). We…