Connor Howe

And it's like I kind of have both because I'm also – I have a dad in Ireland who I've never met and has kept me a secret from his family for my entire life.

Wow.

It's yeah, it's even in an open adoption with my mom.

It's not like everything is perfect.

Not to say that I'm not happy to have her and those types of things, but it's definitely not.

I said this in another podcast.

I feel like the experience of being a person in an open adoption is very politicized.

They kind of hold you up as this poster child of like, look, he's happy and without actually ever asking if you're happy.

Did you feel the pressure from people like, oh, I should be happy?

Yeah, of course.

I mean I don't really think anyone in my life was like, hey, you have to feel this specific emotion.

But it definitely is one of those things where I grew up and I was the only person I knew in an open adoption.

I mean even today.

Like you said, I've been around this world for like a year publicly and I have a few thousand followers.

I've only met like I think one person who's in an open adoption.

Christina, you guys are going to talk too soon.

But yeah, like it's – there's not a lot of people – and open adoption has been around since the 70s.

It's been around for 50 years.

Like it's not really as common as it's presented because the industry uses the term so broadly –

It's very broad.