So here is my concern...

I have always wanted to adopt since I was a teenager. I know I'd be a great parent, but I am doing early research to know the specific issues i could come up against. This is the problem, although I've never been convicted of a crime or parking ticket, and I'm an over-all very smart woman with a good head on her shoulders, I have a diagnosis that is stereotyped a lot. My therapist actually said she thought I had a good chance to adopt after college. I'm twenty-three in a liberal arts college, studying mass communications, I have a summer job in DC, etc. and I'm 100 percent normal and healthy, but I was diagnosed early on as schizophrenic at sixteen. I got it under control by age eighteen and I have been long term "remission" or what you would consider symptom free. I can handle high stress environments, and I'm emotionally sound and stable. Plus i love kids, and people like me. I'm very social and have a network of people/friends and especially my family. But the main thing is, I'm very well rounded and have high morals and standards. I'm Christian, but have distanced from Catholicism, basically I believe in God but I'm not ultra-religious. I'm not bisexual, but I am currently single and twenty-three. I wanted to know what I Should know to prepare. I really just want to be open and honest abou this mental disorder, but I want people to know what it means and how it applies to me before I get an automatic rejection.