AITA for being completely honest to my biological parents about how my childhood was really awful?
Abandoned at birth and shuffled through the cold, uncertain world of foster care, she carried a lifetime of silent scars into her 19th year.
Now in college, a sudden message from a man claiming to be her father shattered the fragile walls she had built, igniting a storm of hope and trepidation she wasn’t ready to face.
The reunion was a cruel masquerade—her birth parents arrived not alone, but with new spouses and children, parading a picture-perfect family she was never part of.
As she sat there, drowning in forced smiles and whispered jealousy, the weight of rejection pressed down harder than ever, reminding her that some wounds never truly heal.
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The original poster (OP) experienced an intense emotional reaction during their first meeting with their biological parents, stemming from deep-seated feelings of abandonment and resentment over their difficult childhood in foster care.
The conflict centers on the OP's sudden, raw honesty, which brought pain to the biological parents, who appeared to have structured the reunion in a way that did not account for the OP's potential emotional state.
Is the OP justified in their feelings of anger and in expressing them so forcefully at the meeting, or should they have managed their expectations and controlled their emotional outburst to preserve the fragile possibility of a future relationship with their biological family?
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