Disney Princess Research Paper

The expectations of fairy tales are predictable. At least one if not both parents are dead in most Disney princess movies. Along with the fact that their lives aren’t the picturesque fantasy a royal is believed to have. Which makes why I find them so comforting odd to a lot people. The reality of this is what comforts me. A child of adoption fanaticizes over the life that they can have or should have had. The dream of a perfect family is euphoric to them. They have the thoughts of, “what if I was a long lost princess.” These thoughts are what drove me to be stable, honest and trustworthy.

My family is a grand total of nine kids all of which were adopted, including me, into two families. My parents adopted seven out the nine while the other two went to another couple a few hours away. I first was told I was adopted in not the most gentle of ways due to having four brothers in the same house who liked to make you miserable. This made delicate topics become a horror show. The way I was told was because I had been upset over being yelled at by my parents and as my brothers so delicately phrased it had been, “well at least you can blame it on being adopted.” This bombshell is what made birthdays so incredibly important to me because it was my one pillar of stability.
Which is why birthday parties are the most comforting environment I can be in. I had no clue who my birth mother or father was making me have countless questions I didn’t feel comfortable asking. Yet all my questions rooted around why didn’t my parents tell me all of this sooner? I trusted them to keep me from harm and tell me the truth. This taught me that life is unpredictable, complicated but I have to set all of that aside because no matter who I was born from my mother and father were still that,