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If someone says "I grew up poor" is that horseshit

the people that tell this story live in Houses with Foundati...
Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part
  07/05/26
whoops I misread OP but I would say that even if you had a r...
glittery lavender box office
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Frozen Hunting Ground Toaster
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when i graduated i dated a younger girl in ug who would cons...
spruce church background story
  07/05/26
Kind of how women dont see men who are under 6', they dont s...
Stirring church building trump supporter
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Offensive fear-inspiring state headpube
  07/05/26
people definitely see what they want to see if someone ju...
Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part
  07/05/26
redditors really are poor though
Adventurous seedy institution national security agency
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spruce church background story
  07/05/26
You just don’t understand!!! That bitch Kaitlyn wore ...
flesh useless brakes
  07/05/26
wtf did she have to say for herself lmao. did her dad get a ...
Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part
  07/05/26
i laughed my ass off at her and was likfe wtf r u talking ab...
spruce church background story
  07/05/26
You showed her
appetizing wrinkle ladyboy
  07/06/26
lol you pulled down your pants and showed her your 3 inch sh...
Abusive cerebral lodge ape
  07/06/26
Herro
aphrodisiac nursing home depressive
  07/05/26
in the US yes its horseshit. proles try to spin life as blue...
Frum doobsian dingle berry sweet tailpipe
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Mildly Autistic Area Hairy Legs
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everything is experienced relative to your peers. this is th...
Cyan center
  07/05/26
you're in denial if you don't think some people in the U.S. ...
glittery lavender box office
  07/05/26
yeah that's what I'm saying, it exists but the "I grew ...
Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part
  07/05/26
kids who grew up as literal bums or homeless generally try t...
contagious house-broken sanctuary idiot
  07/05/26
Unless it's a Lie or the poverty is way behind you, people a...
Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part
  07/05/26
in the US you get free food, housing, and income. Not to men...
Frum doobsian dingle berry sweet tailpipe
  07/06/26
Rare in the suburbs other than housing projects and trailer ...
Adventurous seedy institution national security agency
  07/05/26
Jews fled persecution in Europe, came to America with 5 shek...
massive step-uncle's house
  07/05/26
yeah world jewery surely didnt help fund them
spruce church background story
  07/05/26
People who grew up poor or poverty-adjacent mostly reminisce...
flesh useless brakes
  07/05/26
I grew up poor and abused and used like a piece of household...
Histrionic low-t forum
  07/05/26
no you didn't
Silver Lascivious Cuckoldry
  07/06/26
I absolutely grew up poor and I’m still poor.
Histrionic low-t forum
  07/06/26
no you didn't
Abusive cerebral lodge ape
  07/06/26
You don’t know anything about it pumo.
Histrionic low-t forum
  07/06/26
I grew up gay and retarded
onyx marvelous tank toilet seat
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diverse rebellious feces
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Real poors are usually ashamed of their upbringing. In coll...
Talented Territorial Brunch
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That’s what I’m saying. Not just shame but that ...
Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part
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Date: July 5th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49980090)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 3:55 PM
Author: glittery lavender box office

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49980091)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:05 PM
Author: Frozen Hunting Ground Toaster



(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: spruce church background story

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49980100)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:07 PM
Author: Stirring church building trump supporter

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: Offensive fear-inspiring state headpube



(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: Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part

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.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49980111)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:39 PM
Author: Adventurous seedy institution national security agency

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: spruce church background story



(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: flesh useless brakes

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: Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part

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: spruce church background story

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49980126)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:01 AM
Author: appetizing wrinkle ladyboy

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: Abusive cerebral lodge ape

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: aphrodisiac nursing home depressive

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: Frum doobsian dingle berry sweet tailpipe

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49980153)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:37 PM
Author: Mildly Autistic Area Hairy Legs



(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: Cyan center

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: glittery lavender box office

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: Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49980215)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:22 PM
Author: contagious house-broken sanctuary idiot

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: Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49980278)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 10:22 AM
Author: Frum doobsian dingle berry sweet tailpipe

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49981392)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:40 PM
Author: Adventurous seedy institution national security agency

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: massive step-uncle's house

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: spruce church background story

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: flesh useless brakes

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2/en-en#49980403)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 8:03 PM
Author: Histrionic low-t forum

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: Silver Lascivious Cuckoldry

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: Histrionic low-t forum

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: Abusive cerebral lodge ape

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: Histrionic low-t forum

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: onyx marvelous tank toilet seat

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: diverse rebellious feces



(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: Talented Territorial Brunch

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: Bistre vigorous rehab party of the first part

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)