Recinda: From Orphanage to Art
Recinda, an artist, writer, and TikTok creator, was adopted from a Beirut orphanage by an American family after seven years there, navigating new languages and cultures amid a transient military life. Her journey of survival has been marked by resilience as she continues to heal from the lasting trauma of abuse experienced in both her orphanage and adoptive home.
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
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Show Notes
Recinda is an artist, writer, and TikTok creator. The chasm between Recinda now and
the baby dropped off at an orphanage based in Beirut, Lebanon, is large. She was profoundly
changed by her adoption from an American family stationed in Izmir, Turkey, after a seven-year
span of life at the orphanage. She had to become adaptive to a new language, an American
way of living, as well as the many schools and locations that are an elementary part of military
life.
Survival is the key component to Recinda’s life, even after leaving her adoptive family,
as she was not prepared mentally for an enlarged world view or life. She struggled with the
echos of the mental, physical, and sexual abuse of both the orphanage and her adoptive family.
Season 11: Adoptee Memoirs - books in order:
Practically Still a Virgin by Monica Hall
You Can't Get Rid of Me by Jesse Scott and Keri Ault
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