“People Think I Can’t Hear Them”: 48 Secrets People Accidentally Were Exposed To

Well, when I was in second grade my mom let it slip that my best friend was adopted but then she said, omg, I don't know if she knows so you can't tell her, so I walk around until middle school knowing she was adopted and her parents didn't tell her until she was in middle school. She comes to school and tells us and on the inside I was just relieved to not be carrying that around any more, and I never told her I had known.