Ms Evon Brennan:

One cannot see it. The difference is that if people are raised in an institution, they can leave if they are white and not be identified as being raised in an institution. Being mixed-race, one leaves knowing one has come from an institution but there is always an extra burden - it is physical, one can see it. That is a reminder. When we are asked "Who are you, where do you come from?" it throws us back into a past injury, which one cannot get over. It takes years of therapeutic work and some of us will never reach the point of being completely comfortable in our skins because of what happened to us.