Connor Howe

My name's Connor Howe.

I feel like... It was about a year ago I started posting.

Something like that, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I've been kind of in this space for a long time, but just kind of as an observer, I know a lot of people who are adopted.

I've listened to a lot of people's stories on podcasts and all kinds of mediums.

And for me, really, I...

And it's similar to you guys.

Like I was in an open adoption and I've seen so many people share their experiences about gramping closed adoptions or adoptions that don't look like mine.

And I would read these books and listen to these podcasts.

And not everyone was saying it, but there's a big group of people that was saying like,

You know, here's all the issues that happened with adoption in the past, past tense, but now today things are so different because open adoption exists and, you know, everything's so amazing.

And I was like, well, I don't really feel like this.

You know, I'd be in these support groups of people that didn't see their parents at all growing up, have never met their parents, don't know their parents' names and like...

I mean, I had a different experience than that.

I knew who my mom was.

I've seen her.

I can get into my story, but I was in an open adoption.

It wasn't like I saw her all the time, but I saw her.

I knew who she was.

She knew who I was.