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Aella
@Aella_Girl
It's a bit of a weird sensation to realize that the majority of my peers didn't grow up lower class, they mostly went to college and didn't work jobs that put them in a lot of physical pain. I think I unconsciously assumed that there were more people from my class out here.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
My childhood life feels mostly invisible here. My childhood best friend has her hands permanently fucked from scrubbing floors for years. Few (none?) of my "highschool* friends went to college. Nobody left Idaho. They're mostly working minimum wage jobs... indefinitely.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Also to clarify I don't think this is specifically a homeschooler thing; the ppl from my earlier-childhood homeschool community from california ended up a bit more typically middle class.
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@slutreplik
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@Aella_Girl
You are way smarter than your peers. It isn’t that complicated really, what complicates things is that you cling on to an identity of belonging in a certain ”class”.
Nick Debany
@BuySidePrussian
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@Aella_Girl
I don’t think the poll accurately represents the different ‘classes’ people can come from. Limiting it to just two probably forces a lot of people say they had it better than others (since it always could have been worse), even if relatively they did not.
Stephan W
@Saporaku
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@Aella_Girl
There would be a lot more understanding of your class if more people got out. That’s something I have noticed is how disconnected people are as I have done okay. But I look at my friends, and everyone is in the same class or lower than their parents.
Cow Tongue
@cowtung
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@Aella_Girl
I grew up on welfare surrounded by middle class. Learned to code, made some good investments, and now I'm solidly upper-middle. Still think like I'm poor though.
Elvon
@_Elvon_
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@Aella_Girl
Very interesting. I was homeschooled in Dallas and have exactly the opposite experience. All of our parents were lower middle class, but almost every one of my childhood friends got an engineering/medical degree, and is very well off now.
John Cox: Unanonymous
@jcoxmichigan
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It is interesting to see the difference between our perception of how well we thought our class would conquer the world and the reality of just how mundane their lives turned out to be. We are in general failed states.