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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...
Laughsome henna university
  07/05/26
whoops I misread OP but I would say that even if you had a r...
Spruce Tanning Salon Organic Girlfriend
  07/05/26
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Mewling histrionic sweet tailpipe
  07/05/26
when i graduated i dated a younger girl in ug who would cons...
Overrated flirting school
  07/05/26
Kind of how women dont see men who are under 6', they dont s...
embarrassed to the bone yellow set dysfunction
  07/05/26
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Racy cruise ship international law enforcement agency
  07/05/26
people definitely see what they want to see if someone ju...
Laughsome henna university
  07/05/26
redditors really are poor though
Contagious brunch
  07/05/26
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Overrated flirting school
  07/05/26
You just don’t understand!!! That bitch Kaitlyn wore ...
heady fat ankles
  07/05/26
wtf did she have to say for herself lmao. did her dad get a ...
Laughsome henna university
  07/05/26
i laughed my ass off at her and was likfe wtf r u talking ab...
Overrated flirting school
  07/05/26
You showed her
Chestnut box office
  07/06/26
lol you pulled down your pants and showed her your 3 inch sh...
swashbuckling step-uncle's house main people
  07/06/26
Herro
hateful range
  07/05/26
in the US yes its horseshit. proles try to spin life as blue...
Marvelous carmine useless brakes
  07/05/26
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awkward police squad
  07/05/26
everything is experienced relative to your peers. this is th...
bronze buck-toothed roommate depressive
  07/05/26
you're in denial if you don't think some people in the U.S. ...
Spruce Tanning Salon Organic Girlfriend
  07/05/26
yeah that's what I'm saying, it exists but the "I grew ...
Laughsome henna university
  07/05/26
kids who grew up as literal bums or homeless generally try t...
charcoal heaven private investor
  07/05/26
Unless it's a Lie or the poverty is way behind you, people a...
Laughsome henna university
  07/05/26
in the US you get free food, housing, and income. Not to men...
Marvelous carmine useless brakes
  07/06/26
Rare in the suburbs other than housing projects and trailer ...
Contagious brunch
  07/05/26
Jews fled persecution in Europe, came to America with 5 shek...
Trip chartreuse gas station goal in life
  07/05/26
yeah world jewery surely didnt help fund them
Overrated flirting school
  07/05/26
People who grew up poor or poverty-adjacent mostly reminisce...
heady fat ankles
  07/05/26
I grew up poor and abused and used like a piece of household...
Anal kitchen
  07/05/26
no you didn't
Bateful Piazza Idiot
  07/06/26
I absolutely grew up poor and I’m still poor.
Anal kitchen
  07/06/26
no you didn't
swashbuckling step-uncle's house main people
  07/06/26
You don’t know anything about it pumo.
Anal kitchen
  07/06/26
I grew up gay and retarded
Excitant associate theatre
  07/06/26
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Vibrant locus
  07/06/26
Real poors are usually ashamed of their upbringing. In coll...
supple plaza
  07/06/26
That’s what I’m saying. Not just shame but that ...
Laughsome henna university
  07/07/26


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Date: July 5th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: Laughsome henna university

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=2Vannesa#49980090)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 3:55 PM
Author: Spruce Tanning Salon Organic Girlfriend

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=2Vannesa#49980091)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:05 PM
Author: Mewling histrionic sweet tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980101)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:04 PM
Author: Overrated flirting school

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=2Vannesa#49980100)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:07 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone yellow set dysfunction

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=2Vannesa#49980105)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:10 PM
Author: Racy cruise ship international law enforcement agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980107)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:15 PM
Author: Laughsome henna university

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=2Vannesa#49980111)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:39 PM
Author: Contagious brunch

redditors really are poor though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980159)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:26 PM
Author: Overrated flirting school



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980125)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 7:39 PM
Author: heady fat ankles

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=2Vannesa#49980396)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:15 PM
Author: Laughsome henna university

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=2Vannesa#49980113)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:27 PM
Author: Overrated flirting school

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=2Vannesa#49980126)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:01 AM
Author: Chestnut box office

You showed her

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49981432)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:45 PM
Author: swashbuckling step-uncle's house main people

lol you pulled down your pants and showed her your 3 inch shrimp? 😂

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49981897)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:13 PM
Author: hateful range

Herro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980108)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:36 PM
Author: Marvelous carmine useless brakes

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=2Vannesa#49980153)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:37 PM
Author: awkward police squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980156)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: bronze buck-toothed roommate depressive

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=2Vannesa#49980167)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:50 PM
Author: Spruce Tanning Salon Organic Girlfriend

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=2Vannesa#49980180)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:19 PM
Author: Laughsome henna university

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=2Vannesa#49980215)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:22 PM
Author: charcoal heaven private investor

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=2Vannesa#49980218)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:54 PM
Author: Laughsome henna university

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=2Vannesa#49980278)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 10:22 AM
Author: Marvelous carmine useless brakes

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=2Vannesa#49981392)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:40 PM
Author: Contagious brunch

Rare in the suburbs other than housing projects and trailer parks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980162)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:57 PM
Author: Trip chartreuse gas station goal in life

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=2Vannesa#49980285)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 6:10 PM
Author: Overrated flirting school

yeah world jewery surely didnt help fund them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980308)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 7:47 PM
Author: heady fat ankles

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=2Vannesa#49980403)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 8:03 PM
Author: Anal kitchen

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=2Vannesa#49980417)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:03 AM
Author: Bateful Piazza Idiot

no you didn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49981434)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:41 PM
Author: Anal kitchen

I absolutely grew up poor and I’m still poor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49981885)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:45 PM
Author: swashbuckling step-uncle's house main people

no you didn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49981900)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:48 PM
Author: Anal kitchen

You don’t know anything about it pumo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49981910)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:02 AM
Author: Excitant associate theatre

I grew up gay and retarded

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49981433)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:49 PM
Author: Vibrant locus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2Vannesa#49981914)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 4:27 PM
Author: supple plaza

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=2Vannesa#49982081)



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Date: July 7th, 2026 8:09 AM
Author: Laughsome henna university

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=2Vannesa#49983519)