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If someone says "I grew up poor" is that horseshit
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Date: July 5th, 2026 3:54 PM Author: Bright institution boiling water 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: Histrionic gold area lettuce 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 |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:05 PM Author: Amber Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980101) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:04 PM Author: fuchsia keepsake machete 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 |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:07 PM Author: Nofapping bull headed haunted graveyard 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) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:10 PM Author: Glittery Bearded Temple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980107) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:15 PM Author: Bright institution boiling water 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.
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: french dashing brunch redditors really are poor though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980159) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:26 PM Author: fuchsia keepsake machete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980125) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 7:39 PM Author: Hot Irradiated French Chef 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) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:15 PM Author: Bright institution boiling water 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) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: fuchsia keepsake machete 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 |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:01 AM Author: federal grizzly home You showed her (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981432) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: .,.,.,.,.,...,.,,.,,.....,.,..,.,,...,.,.,,...,. 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) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: primrose den tattoo Herro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980108) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:36 PM Author: stubborn newt 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. |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: ruby hateful theater people who are hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980156) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: Citrine Spectacular Menage Genital Piercing 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) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:50 PM Author: Histrionic gold area lettuce 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) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:19 PM Author: Bright institution boiling water 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. |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:22 PM Author: Fishy office gaming laptop 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) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:54 PM Author: Bright institution boiling water 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. |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 10:22 AM Author: stubborn newt 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. |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:40 PM Author: french dashing brunch 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) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:57 PM Author: Exciting friendly grandma 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) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 6:10 PM Author: fuchsia keepsake machete yeah world jewery surely didnt help fund them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49980308) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 7:47 PM Author: Hot Irradiated French Chef 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 |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 8:03 PM Author: Carnelian internet-worthy associate meetinghouse 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) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:03 AM Author: Puce well-lubricated house no you didn't (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981434) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:41 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) 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) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: .,.,.,.,.,...,.,,.,,.....,.,..,.,,...,.,.,,...,. no you didn't (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981900) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:48 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) You don’t know anything about it pumo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981910) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:02 AM Author: unholy cracking private investor shrine I grew up gay and retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981433) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: computer online (🧐) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en/#49981914) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: Bronus Swagner 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) |
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Date: July 7th, 2026 8:09 AM Author: cowgod 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) |