another kid discovers unknown scars from their chilhood, news @ 11

[aplethora]

i'm a little embarrassed about it, but this cracked article made me cry because i related so closely with it. i don't like to talk about it often, but i grew up in a pretty poor household. all of my friends come from well-off middle class families, so it's hard to make them understand what my family's situation was like, and often feel as though i

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[queen_insane]

I don't think there is anything to be ashamed of. You grew up in a way that allowed you to be better with money than a lot of America. One of the issues I think we have as Americans is that we over spend and that you know the value of money is something that a lot of people just don't get.

You have a common sense and knowledge that a lot of American's don't have. That's something to be prideful of, not something to hide away from.

And it means that now that you do have the extra money you are better at saving it for when you really really need it.

[twasadark]

I get it. I've never gone hungry or been homeless, but I am familiar with grinding poverty and it sucks bilge. There's a whole sense of deep fear of not enough that goes along with it - a desperate sort of grasping desire from being denied worldly goods. I get frustrated with people who knock those who shop at Wal-Mart and drive shitty cars and live in the bad part of town. People don't do that stuff because they want to but because they have to in order to survive. I've been on my own since I was 17 and it's been a precarious existence sometimes. I'd like to say I'm good with money now but I'm not, really, and I need to continually challenge my own perceptions and reactions because of my history with money. One of those joys of life ...

[alwaysenduphere]

i still can't believe you survive in muncie without a winter coat.

i never understood money growing up because i never had to worry about it, my parents had us covered well enough. but now it's all i can fucking think about, and i don't know if it's worse because my parents didn't worry when i was a kid either and now there's not enough so it's all worry all the time, but i certainly wouldn't have understood any of those habits as a kid like i do now.