My Childhood as an Adoptee (Full Interview)
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
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Having been adopted at the age of two from an orphanage in Arkhangelsk, Russia, into the embrace of my New Zealand family, I delve into the path of my cultural upbringing, the history that has shaped me, and the meaningful connections I've made with my birth family. My quest to uncover the missing links of my heritage takes me to Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, each step a chapter in my evolving story.
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You are a good example of how if an orphan child is raised by a good family, the child can have a normal life. A child can get the best care in an orphanage, but a family is a family.
When I heard your story for the first time I was amazed how nice personality you have. Being such a positive person is really nice to watch. Keep going. 👍
Intelligent Alex. Eloquent and so mature emotionally. Admirable person brought up by loving parents. Very lucky Alex. One follower in here suggested why not include your brother into your video if he agrees. People will learn so much how a birth-parents and adoptive-parents can be a huge family.
Alex, you are such a sensitive and wise guy. You speak about your relationship with your adoptive parents with such love, respect and gratefulness. I do respect you for this so much. And your adoptive parents must be so beautiful souls and extremely generous people for the way they raised you all those years building in you respect to your background and not cheating you and pretending you are their blood descendant. Moreover, I respect and admire you, Alex, for the way you speak about and describe your love of your birth father. I am with you when you say it is a different kind of love, like love of someone from your past you haven't seen for a long time. I understand, your relationship with your birth father is like a relationship of two adult men who met after a long time and "fell in love" with each other. In your videos I can see your birth dad is more than happy to have learned he's had a son who he hadn't known about. His eyes speak for him. That's wonderful he feels about you like this. The two of you look and sound so identical. Like father, like som.
Thank you so much. I truly appreciate those kind words. Thank you!
Alex, you're most comprehensive interview so far. My questions were finally answered. Great interviewer and awesome interview! Cheers!
It warms my heart to hear how supportive your parents were about you finding your birth parents. I love that this was mentioned in the interview, because many cultures would see it as betrayal. I also like that you mentioned about the Teacher/Student communication difference. Many countries aren't there yet. It's important for teachers to rise their students up versus making them feel inept.
Who else wants to see Alex Gilbert's BROTHER?????
Yeah good suggestion. I am interested how his brother see the world.
You’ve given your audience so much insight, Alex. I understand somewhat the parentless parent because my father grew up in an orphanage. I feel for Mama Tatiana. You’re exceptional for working to ease her mind. She’ll blossom eventually. My dad was brilliant but I saw what the orphanage did to him. It was a hard life for him and sadly he’s gone. You can send your love to Mama Tatiana and she’ll likely struggle possibly like my dad did. Just keep on going and be sure that you know you’re dealing with an incredibly imperfect situation. Thank the Lord for and much love to your mom and dad, and for your entire family-your brothers and your little sister, Mama Tatiana, Misha and his lovely wife and extended family as well. You’re doing it!
In class, I watched the interview with my mouth open, listening to every sentence. I liked it very much
Wonderful interview. My 35-year old son (Alexander) has been called Sacha since birth. We live in Canada.
My understanding is that "Sacha" is the diminutive of Alexander, whereas "Sasha" is a girl's name.
In Slav nations Sasha is the same for Alexandr and Alexandria, at least in Czechia and Slovakia. Whether you're a boy or girl you'll be called Sasha. Same with Michaela and Michael, they're all called Misha.
Such a great interview!!!
Alex you are going to be so happy one day when you no longer need an interpreter and will be able to speak to your parents directly. Have you ever thought of sponsoring your birth mother to come to New Zealand? She could really need someone in her life and also she would be closer to you that way.
That is today :)
Superb interview lots of ❤️🙏 from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳
Alex, what a great interview. Thanks much for posting.
Did she seriously ask him if he still loved his adoptive parents??? Why would meeting his birth parents suddenly stop him loving his adoptive parents who, over 20 years, gave him love, hugs, smile, encouragement, care, resources, educated him, protected him, kept him safe, warm, took him to extracurricular classes (presumably), raised him as their own, made him their universe, paid for his upbringing??? What a total lack of understanding of adoption!
Perhaps she wanted to illustrate for the audience that meeting his biological parents didn't change his love for his parents. Odd choice of words but she doesn't have a perfect command of English although she speaks well.
Great Great interview!! This is the best story ever.
Great interview!
Замечательное интервью, Алекс, спасибо тебе большое! Удачи!
The photo of little Sonja is heartmelting. I think you are beautiful Sonja.
Sacha/Sasha is a lovely name
"I wanted to meet someone who looked like me", welps, you certainly got that. Not only do you look like your Dad but you look like your Dad's mother. Moreso than your Dad!
Everyone should try to help single moms to prevent babies becoming orphaned
oh, really? nobody wants to help me
dfdkkkllkj I think you misunderstood the above statements
Yes...no abortion OR adoption. We’re supposed to be with our blood.
@@ragtimegals Be realistic. Your comment pisses me off. Tatiana had a hard life, and it seems like she didn't know what to do when she fell pregnant with Alex. Specially since she was just a kid. Her situation goes beyond simply " help single mothers", and she seems like a good person who is not reckless. There are situations where women get pregnant over and over from different fathers, collect government support, collect child support, deal with absent fathers, live in poverty ect. My brother in law went thru that. Giving his bio mom "help" was not the solution, as she was not fit to be a mother in the first place. Her mentality and reckless actions were the problem. It is delusional for you to think abortion and adoption should not be an option. In my own experience, my biological father is a compulsive liar dead beat. I was planned, my two sisters were planned, my parents were married, yet..homie dipped out. Thankfully my mother's new husband adopted me. Stop trying to cancel adoption and abortion when you have no idea what people such as myself have lived thru. You have no idea what birth parents have lived thru either. I'm speaking for those who were good people in difficult situations such as Alex's birth parents. Other individuals that I have met personally would not use help properly even if you gave it to them. They already get help with welfare year after year.
@@ragtimegals How would you feel if you were born to a single mother with 3 other children from different fathers, on welfare, in the hood, absent father, drugs, alcohol? The problem is the mentality. These people already receive money. No help will stop them from having more children or taking advantage of people who help in ways that have nothing to do with finances(I've seen it.) There are a few cases in which the mother is a good person looking for help and to better herself. Great, but that is not everything, and the child won't have a father.
May God continue to bless you and your family Alex!
“Always something that was missing” something ALL children that were given up think about.....don’t ever forget this!!! It’s extremely important when it comes to children who are given up for adoption(something I always fantasized about, once I knew I was given up for adoption) it’s very important! Don’t dismiss this!
What I mean is it’s very important for those of us who were given up as Babies from any country, that we are allowed to know where we came from, pictures and information of our biological birth parents and families. It’s SO important for adoptees you know where they came from, and the WHY! That’s I think myself one of the biggest questions, WHY was I put into the system. (From any Country)
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The interviewer has such a strong russian accent while questioning Alex, such a funny thing. You are so lucky to be away from all of that shit happening in Russia.
Hi I have a question I hope you don't mind me asking. I heard you say that your birth mother didn't tell your birth father about you and your birth father said he would have liked to raise you, do you feel your birth mother should have told your birth father?
Nice!
Жаль, что нет перевода на русский!
To inform you, the Canadian Government will permanently DISMISS your looking for your history of where you were the first years of your life(I have a telephone message on my phone telling me that my case will be permanently dismissed! If I didn’t call back in a day(it was Christmas 2019) there’s things flushed under the rug...
The interviewer is saying it was a betrayal to try to find your birth parents??? Betrayal is quite a negative way to describe his natural desire to meet them. What awful language she uses. They will be naturally curious to know about their birth background. Who wouldn't??? I've heard many adoptees on the same journey to meet their birth parents. She lacks basic understating of an adopted child and sounds judgmental.
Part of it is language. Slavs speak much more bluntly in English than how they would sound in their native language. If she was speaking Russian to him she wouldn't sound so blunt. They know English but they haven't been raised with our nice way of expression in English.
Why did the interviewer expect the adopted child to speak Russian when the dominating language in which he grew up was English??? His school and and presumably his mother (who usually has the biggest influence on what language a child speaks) was speaking English? I was born in India and lost my language skills living in Britain. It is normal for most who have experienced similar transitions. She sounded accusatory and made him feel guilty for something he had no control over