The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
|
 |
 
|
If someone says "I grew up poor" is that horseshit
Poast new message in this thread
Date: July 5th, 2026 3:54 PM Author: Boyish hell place of business the people that tell this story live in Houses with Foundations and yards and Cars and had Consoles and stuff
the actual poors who don't tell this story live in Trailers. no one asks them their stories. |
Date: July 5th, 2026 3:55 PM Author: scarlet excitant step-uncle's house wrinkle whoops I misread OP but I would say that even if you had a roof over your head you count as growing up poor if your family regularly couldn't afford one or more of: electricity, food, running water
but yeah I agree people that made their way to white picket fence are way more likely to say that |
 |
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:05 PM Author: Chartreuse gay wizard alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980101) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:04 PM Author: Vermilion kink-friendly psychic newt when i graduated i dated a younger girl in ug who would constantly talk about how poor she was growin up and how hard it was
we went to her childhood home her parents were still living in in san antonio and i was expecting us to go to the hood
we drove up to a clean neighborhood and her house had 6 bedrooms and was two stories |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:07 PM Author: bipolar effete church Kind of how women dont see men who are under 6', they dont see the entire working class, just UMC and above so lower UMC is the floor and "poor" in a sense. To them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980105) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:10 PM Author: contagious jet spot deer antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980107) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:15 PM Author: Boyish hell place of business people definitely see what they want to see
if someone just wants to be a Loser and ngaf they'll convince themselves that any degree of success is rare or doesn't exist basically.
Also libs/redditors really want to think that everyone is poor.
|
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: dark area redditors really are poor though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980159) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:26 PM Author: Vermilion kink-friendly psychic newt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980125) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 7:39 PM Author: Slippery office You just don’t understand!!! That bitch Kaitlyn wore head-to-toe Abercrombie and Kendra Scott jewelry while she had to get some of her wardrobe staples from Marshalls and Old Navy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980396) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:15 PM Author: Boyish hell place of business wtf did she have to say for herself lmao. did her dad get a Promotion? or is this the entire story lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980113) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: Vermilion kink-friendly psychic newt i laughed my ass off at her and was likfe wtf r u talking about
u could tell she felt stupid af
i showed her what poor actually was and she had no response |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 11:01 AM Author: wild potus You showed her (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981432) |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Peach stead corn cake lol you pulled down your pants and showed her your 3 inch shrimp? 😂 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981897) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: fishy razzle university nibblets Herro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980108) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:36 PM Author: slate half-breed in the US yes its horseshit. proles try to spin life as blue collar in poughkeepsie as "growing up poor" its fucking absurd.
true poverty only exists in other countries. |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: mahogany provocative round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980156) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: startled navy boistinker everything is experienced relative to your peers. this is the same kind of argument shitboomers make - "yeah Houses are 40-50x your Income now but back when I bought, we didn't have fancy electronics like iPhones!" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980167) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:50 PM Author: scarlet excitant step-uncle's house wrinkle you're in denial if you don't think some people in the U.S. are living like people in poor countries. obviously it's not as widespread here but there are absolutely people living in abject poverty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980180) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 5:19 PM Author: Boyish hell place of business yeah that's what I'm saying, it exists but the "I grew up poor" people aren't the ones who experience it. Maybe because they'd just say "I am poor atm" lol.
also because of credit cards the poorest idiots can experience Consoles and Disney World at least on occasion. so not experiencing these things is more likely to be parents not wanting to spend money on that shit, possibly combined with being frugal or Indian. |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 5:22 PM Author: Pontificating Therapy Dilemma kids who grew up as literal bums or homeless generally try to hide that fact, for a lot of different reasons. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980218) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 5:54 PM Author: Boyish hell place of business Unless it's a Lie or the poverty is way behind you, people avoid bringing it up.
if you walk into OCI with a generic "I am Poor" study they will want you to gtfo. No one wants to get labeled Scum at the worst possible time. |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 10:22 AM Author: slate half-breed in the US you get free food, housing, and income. Not to mention the safety nets of police, fire, and adequate roadway/infastructure system. the only people who dont have this in the US are either drug addicts or retards.
you also do not have to worry about military conscription, child labor, sex slavery, and other brutal shit that happens in the slums of third world countries. |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:40 PM Author: dark area Rare in the suburbs other than housing projects and trailer parks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980162) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 5:57 PM Author: Magical factory reset button temple Jews fled persecution in Europe, came to America with 5 shekels in their pockets and somehow reached the pinnacle of their professions within a year of arriving. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980285) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 6:10 PM Author: Vermilion kink-friendly psychic newt yeah world jewery surely didnt help fund them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980308) |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 7:47 PM Author: Slippery office People who grew up poor or poverty-adjacent mostly reminisce fondly about their upbringings and honor their families, even though, or maybe even *because* they struggled. But they do it very, very quietly and only in like company.
And then people who grew up poor AND caught up the some horrendous web of substance abusing family and similar things to hard to either end of the spectrum. Either they’re blowing up social media with a constant stream of attention-poasting about their “trauma” or they will work very, very, very had to avoid the subject of family and childhood altogether |
|
Date: July 5th, 2026 8:03 PM Author: amethyst space dingle berry I grew up poor and abused and used like a piece of household furniture. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980417) |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 11:03 AM Author: Bronze mewling principal's office halford no you didn't (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981434) |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 2:41 PM Author: amethyst space dingle berry I absolutely grew up poor and I’m still poor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981885) |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Peach stead corn cake no you didn't (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981900) |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 2:48 PM Author: amethyst space dingle berry You don’t know anything about it pumo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981910) |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 11:02 AM Author: Citrine fiercely-loyal tanning salon pozpig I grew up gay and retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981433) |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: Vengeful Location Boiling Water (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981914) |
|
Date: July 6th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: Umber sexy stage associate Real poors are usually ashamed of their upbringing. In college LMC kids try to improve their position in the progressive stack (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49982081) |
|
Date: July 7th, 2026 8:09 AM Author: Boyish hell place of business That’s what I’m saying. Not just shame but that people will give them a blank look at best if they talk about it. It’s not the type of situation where you can milk it in any relevant way, and OCI is at stake. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49983519) |