I did it! I made a difference! Again!

BBC News – Germany to allow hospital births under false name bbc.in/Yav1kq NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! This is vile and abhorrent!

— 7rin (@7rin) March 15, 2013

This post not only launched an awesome thread of its own, but also spawned a side-thread that yielded startling results too.

Part of the way down this second thread, I suddenly throw in…

@boormanamanda Ooh, just found “The aim is to heighten awareness of adoption and …” *shudders @ phrasing* #LanguageGetsTrickySometimes

— 7rin (@7rin) March 17, 2013

Make A Show Of Yourselves was the page that had startled me with it’s adoption advocative language.

Immediately though, understanding entirely the point I was raising, Amanda was on to it …

Evening @katelongmate can we edit exhib statement to “heighten awareness of realities of adoption” thanks to @7rin . Fair point well made xx

— Amanda Boorman (@BoormanAmanda) March 17, 2013

And that, my friends, is another concrete achievement, because it’s the way we use the language that impacts adoptees far more than, for example, Sir Martin Narey appears to concede.