Multiracial Mental Health (Part I): The Mixed Experience

I am the multiracial child of a Taiwanese immigrant, herself the child of parents who fled the Chinese Communist Revolution, and a White parent with French–Scottish heritage. I spent my childhood summers in Taiwan and the rest of the year in San Antonio, Texas. In Texas, my brother and I were often the subject of other parents’ fascination, and I grew up thinking “exotic” was a compliment. I often fielded questions about where I was from and “what kind of Chinese” I was–better, I suppose, than the times other students offered up guesses about my Asian ethnicity while singing a taunting song and pulling at the skin around their eyes. <a href="https://medium.com/@mirandanadeau/multiracial-mental-health-the-mixed-experience-1-ecf74743adfe">Read More</a>