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Adoption – a chance for life | Ádám Sebesfi | TEDxBudapestSalon


thank you very much so my whole story
started with a phone call a phone call
yeah the phone rang that I was coming
and I would be born in hours in the
meantime my mom and my dad got in the
car and went to the hospital my dad
drove like a car racer through the town
but he couldn’t say that she was driving
a woman who would leave a life to a
child also in these minutes
my grandparents started to go to the
hospital as well it’s okay that my
parents my mom and dad were in a hurry
because I was their first child but I
was the ninth grandchild of my four my
grandparents the ninth but they also
came to the hospital there was a
stranger on the bed alone husband or a
boy nowhere at the time my parents
arrived my mom went ran into the room
where my birth giver tried to give birth
to me I wasn’t an easy accident so my
mom cut my umbilical cord I started to
cry but from oh my god my life only
heard my voice she didn’t want to see me
she never saw me and I also never saw
her this is very important
so when I was about five years old I
asked my mother who has this woman this
woman was your birth giver this was the
woman was for you who give a chance for
a life she went home but she was in the
hospital just in a simple sort where
they where she didn’t have to see
several happy mothers because it would
be very hard for her after that she went
home and we also I saw only one photo of
my birth giver she wasn’t too tall it’s
okay and she got she had brown hair just
one photo of my birth giver my mother
took it because they have met before
because it wasn’t a secret adoption it’s
also very important the two pair of
parents meet each other and with the
help of a company that option happens no
offset allowed you cannot pay for the
child you have to wait years for the
child not just nine months decisions my
life started with two decisions one
woman decided that she won’t kill me I
won’t be the victim of an abortion and
another woman my mother of course when
my father decided that they would like
to raise a child not me just any child
loads of you may think that somebody
gave up on me and this is a sad story
but absolutely not a person who was
pregnant with me wanted the best for me
she wanted to keep me alive she wanted
the lovely family where I can grow up
and I have a message for her it was a
good affort and I would like to say
thank you I don’t know her this is why
this is why I send this message from
here I don’t want to know her this is my
decision
why because she isn’t my mother my mom
is the one who brought me up just think
if a couple is searching for you that
they have is wrapped in the hospital and
they are your real parents and the
genetics are the same so you are healed
real parents the biological parents
would you like to live with them don’t
you think that the love and the care
that you get up until this time is more
important than the DNA I think these are
more important than the DNA honesty
honesty was the most important thing in
our life I wouldn’t stand here if I
wasn’t if I didn’t experience it in the
best way in an optimal way a child
doesn’t realize that he adopted like in
a Hollywood film not after dinner
sitting on a balcony does he to be faced
the fact when his 20 years old the child
will think her her life was a lie his
life was a lie the life was a lie
yes absolutely is he right absolutely my
parents never told me that I was too
young to understand it I was just about
5 years old when I played with my
friends and my friend’s mother look at
to show old pictures for me
these pictures showed me my friend’s
little sister when she was in their
mommy’s tummy when I arrived home I
asked my mother why they were Anthony
photos like my friend’s little sister
mom I wasn’t in your tummy
I haven’t er I haven’t asked the
question as concrete as this before
there are two possible answer for it yes
or no it isn’t any space for hesitation
they stopped doing everything my parents
stopped doing everything and looked into
my eyes and my mother said no this was
the first moment when I realized that
I’m adopted at the time my mother could
think if I was too young to understand
it I was too little to understand it but
she knew if she wasn’t honest with me in
this question in the most important
question she couldn’t expect me to be
honest with her later a child thinks
about lot of things so I do what would
have happened if my birth giver would
richer what would have happened if I
searched for her and what would she
answer to the question why should he
decide it
these questions are in every adapted
child’s mind but also very important how
the parents reacted my parents prepared
me for the peoples who don’t know
anything about adoption they profit
stereotypes stereotypes say that we are
the adopted children’s are are
traumatized No
and the word is very bad for us because
we are living not my we are living not
as our biological family but it’s just
stereotypes my parents is my real
parents
they love me unconditionally I think I
am the living proof that the adoption is
a solution for the abortion and I’m
fighting for the adoption to be a
solution for the abortion so this is my
life this is the unconditionally love I
think thank you [Applause]
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