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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: Claret Nibblets 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: Well-lubricated roast beef university 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: Appetizing brilliant forum codepig (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: Soggy Supple Whorehouse Milk 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: glittery elastic band 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: thriller internet-worthy gaming laptop crackhouse (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: Claret Nibblets 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: Impertinent azure property 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: Soggy Supple Whorehouse Milk (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: Bat shit crazy den 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: Claret Nibblets 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: Soggy Supple Whorehouse Milk 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: massive home hominid 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: diverse deep friendly grandma 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: Electric Tan Set Double Fault 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: concupiscible theatre people who are hurt 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: vivacious painfully honest stead associate (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: bonkers coffee pot foreskin 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: Well-lubricated roast beef university 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: Claret Nibblets 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: Bateful hateful lay 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: Claret Nibblets 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: concupiscible theatre people who are hurt 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: Impertinent azure property 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: Embarrassed to the bone bull headed point 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: Soggy Supple Whorehouse Milk 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: Bat shit crazy den 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: Big step-uncle's house 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: spruce submissive field 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: Big step-uncle's house 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: diverse deep friendly grandma 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: Big step-uncle's house 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: sexy state 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: adventurous ungodly bawdyhouse (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: marvelous corner boistinker 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: Claret Nibblets 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) |