Heh. The thing is that I'm pretty sure "priviledged" doesn't cover my childhood in any way, shape, or form, and yet I can still check a lot of what's on that list, but because of odd priorities (music lessons of some sort are not to be done without, we'd go without new clothes or heating or any number of other things before we'd not have piano lessons, etc.) not because of us actually being able to afford such stuff easily.
*shrugs* Things balance out. It was nice enough to get piano lessons, but there are days when I'd have preferred a heated bedroom, new clothes, or something other than school lunch leftovers for dinner. And it's not as though valuing my education somehow conjured money for it out of thin air. They didn't pay a cent towards my college education, after all.
I'm not trying to put out some kind of sob story, or anything, just saying that this sort of generic set of questions doesn't necessarily mean anything.
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I'm not trying to put out some kind of sob story, or anything, just saying that this sort of generic set of questions doesn't necessarily mean anything.
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Your version of privilege depends what you want, I think, not just what you have.
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