Adoptees - were u fascinated as a child (or even still now) by families who all looked the same?

Yes. When my son was born I couldn't figure out who he looked like. In fact I didn't know until he was 7 and other people were able to pick him out in a crowd, people who had never even seen him in pictures. I still have problems seeing myself in my children. I see myself in my mom but only because you would have to be completely blind to miss it. Families with strong genetic traits often wig me out. My daughter has twin cousins who strongly resemble one of her second cousins, again it creeps me out and I really don't like to see them all together (even more so since they all look amazingly like my daughter!).

OMG! Girl, I used to make up stuff, resemblances that may not have really been there. We were all the within the same color palette but didn't favor a ton. When I finally met my birth family, it was nice to see people who looked like me but it was almost weird! None the less, I am glad that I did it. My a-parents never made me feel any different or made comments about it. Matter of fact, for years, no one even knew I was adopted. When they found out, it was just like "Oh!.... Ok!" I thought it was obvious but to others it really wasn't.

I dont think its weird, Id expect kids in the same family to look similar, if not a like and to look similar if not alike to their parents. What I would find interesting and comment on more so is a child that looked completely different than their parents or siblings... for instance, if 2 blonds w/ blue eyes adults had a child w/ dark brown hair I would find the fact that the recessive gene was chosen to create the baby as interesting. I wouldnt say 'and who's the daddy of this one' but Id be curious how the child came to look so differently. Otherwise, I say to families that look a like 'well there's no guessing who the parents (or father) is'.

Families have become more diverse and multicultural even, but I dont think a diverse family or a family that looks like clones any weirder. Thats me though. Im adopted and look like my adopted dad so much that people say I got his traits vs. my adoptive moms and Im not even blood, so how's that for interesting?!

Yes.

When I was very little, I used to get sick at every holiday and family event. Seeing people who looked like each other both fascinated and upset me.

Growing up looking so different, I felt that I was unbearably unattractive. Every time I looked at myself in the mirror, the first thought that came to my head was "ugly"

yes lmao and then when i found my family last year i realized the reason i was so fascinated was because everyone in my family looks alike. almost all 300 of them. my cousin married someone that looks like me and i thought she was my cousin till i asked her. It is weird. sometimes it freaks me out cause i have family members on my dad's side that look like people on my moms side. we have a lot of mixtures in our family too though. Korean, Hawaiian, Black, White Cherokee. basically everything but hispanic. makes it kinda hard not to look like the next person.

Not really, although I think that's because I could never recognise likenesses, having never seen any of my own for myself.

I'm more struck by it now, having just (in the last couple of months) met both my bparents (and two of my four half-siblings, a nephew and a cousin... :D). For the first time in my life, I've been able to see someone who looks like me that I didn't give birth to. The closest I can get to explaining the impact this has had on my psyche, is that it has been immense. :s

To tell you the truth they kind of creep me out. Maybe it's because my a'mom's family all look very much alike, meaning I always stood out and felt a bit of a freak?

LOL!!!

I look so much like my mother people think we're sisters. Strangers remark about how much alike we look.

I just never considered I was creeping people out.

I wanted to say that one of my best friends from High School was adopted and SHE was fascinated by how alike my mom and I look. She loved going out with us and thought it was hilarious if someone commented.

Of all the families I know most do not resemble each other and there are no adopted ones in the family.

yeah, I used to take this weird pride in not looking like anybody in my a-family (until we were at a family gathering and they were showing slides and couldn't remember who was who becuase they all looked alike, and then I felt like an outsider). But when I met my first family I was suddenly THRILLED beyond belief to look like somebody. I still pinch myself when I see my first dad because he looks so much like me that it feels like a dream.