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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...
Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams
  07/05/26
whoops I misread OP but I would say that even if you had a r...
Irradiated black woman
  07/05/26
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Ultramarine base jap
  07/05/26
when i graduated i dated a younger girl in ug who would cons...
Thriller ruby school cafeteria
  07/05/26
Kind of how women dont see men who are under 6', they dont s...
appetizing liquid oxygen sandwich
  07/05/26
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electric shrine
  07/05/26
people definitely see what they want to see if someone ju...
Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams
  07/05/26
redditors really are poor though
Abnormal Bisexual Roast Beef Dopamine
  07/05/26
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Thriller ruby school cafeteria
  07/05/26
You just don’t understand!!! That bitch Kaitlyn wore ...
Marvelous deranged regret coffee pot
  07/05/26
wtf did she have to say for herself lmao. did her dad get a ...
Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams
  07/05/26
i laughed my ass off at her and was likfe wtf r u talking ab...
Thriller ruby school cafeteria
  07/05/26
You showed her
amber flickering associate
  07/06/26
lol you pulled down your pants and showed her your 3 inch sh...
Chocolate Sick Menage
  07/06/26
Herro
opaque dysfunction
  07/05/26
in the US yes its horseshit. proles try to spin life as blue...
sexy black nursing home shitlib
  07/05/26
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salmon corner
  07/05/26
everything is experienced relative to your peers. this is th...
Khaki 180 Rehab
  07/05/26
you're in denial if you don't think some people in the U.S. ...
Irradiated black woman
  07/05/26
yeah that's what I'm saying, it exists but the "I grew ...
Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams
  07/05/26
kids who grew up as literal bums or homeless generally try t...
charismatic azure property pozpig
  07/05/26
Unless it's a Lie or the poverty is way behind you, people a...
Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams
  07/05/26
in the US you get free food, housing, and income. Not to men...
sexy black nursing home shitlib
  07/06/26
Rare in the suburbs other than housing projects and trailer ...
Abnormal Bisexual Roast Beef Dopamine
  07/05/26
Jews fled persecution in Europe, came to America with 5 shek...
Laughsome Gaped Party Of The First Part Cruise Ship
  07/05/26
yeah world jewery surely didnt help fund them
Thriller ruby school cafeteria
  07/05/26
People who grew up poor or poverty-adjacent mostly reminisce...
Marvelous deranged regret coffee pot
  07/05/26
I grew up poor and abused and used like a piece of household...
Beady-eyed Crystalline Kitty Cat Ape
  07/05/26
no you didn't
vibrant cowardly doctorate yarmulke
  07/06/26
I absolutely grew up poor and I’m still poor.
Beady-eyed Crystalline Kitty Cat Ape
  07/06/26
no you didn't
Chocolate Sick Menage
  07/06/26
You don’t know anything about it pumo.
Beady-eyed Crystalline Kitty Cat Ape
  07/06/26
I grew up gay and retarded
passionate persian
  07/06/26
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boyish mother office
  07/06/26
Real poors are usually ashamed of their upbringing. In coll...
galvanic hilarious chapel factory reset button
  07/06/26
That’s what I’m saying. Not just shame but that ...
cowgod
  07/07/26


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Date: July 5th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980090)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 3:55 PM
Author: Irradiated black woman

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980091)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:05 PM
Author: Ultramarine base jap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980101)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:04 PM
Author: Thriller ruby school cafeteria

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980100)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:07 PM
Author: appetizing liquid oxygen sandwich

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980105)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:10 PM
Author: electric shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980107)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:15 PM
Author: Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980111)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:39 PM
Author: Abnormal Bisexual Roast Beef Dopamine

redditors really are poor though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980159)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:26 PM
Author: Thriller ruby school cafeteria



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980125)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 7:39 PM
Author: Marvelous deranged regret coffee pot

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980396)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:15 PM
Author: Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980113)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:27 PM
Author: Thriller ruby school cafeteria

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980126)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:01 AM
Author: amber flickering associate

You showed her

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49981432)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:45 PM
Author: Chocolate Sick Menage

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49981897)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:13 PM
Author: opaque dysfunction

Herro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980108)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:36 PM
Author: sexy black nursing home shitlib

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980153)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:37 PM
Author: salmon corner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980156)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: Khaki 180 Rehab

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980167)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:50 PM
Author: Irradiated black woman

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980180)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:19 PM
Author: Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980215)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:22 PM
Author: charismatic azure property pozpig

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980218)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:54 PM
Author: Hairraiser pontificating cumskin laser beams

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980278)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 10:22 AM
Author: sexy black nursing home shitlib

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49981392)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:40 PM
Author: Abnormal Bisexual Roast Beef Dopamine

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980162)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:57 PM
Author: Laughsome Gaped Party Of The First Part Cruise Ship

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980285)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 6:10 PM
Author: Thriller ruby school cafeteria

yeah world jewery surely didnt help fund them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980308)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 7:47 PM
Author: Marvelous deranged regret coffee pot

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980403)



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Date: July 5th, 2026 8:03 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Crystalline Kitty Cat Ape

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49980417)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:03 AM
Author: vibrant cowardly doctorate yarmulke

no you didn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49981434)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:41 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Crystalline Kitty Cat Ape

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49981885)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:45 PM
Author: Chocolate Sick Menage

no you didn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49981900)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:48 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Crystalline Kitty Cat Ape

You don’t know anything about it pumo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49981910)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 11:02 AM
Author: passionate persian

I grew up gay and retarded

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49981433)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 2:49 PM
Author: boyish mother office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879857&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310900#49981914)



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Date: July 6th, 2026 4:27 PM
Author: galvanic hilarious chapel factory reset button

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\u0026mark_id=5310900#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\u0026mark_id=5310900#49983519)