When someone’s born into it, raised in it, knows nothing else, you don’t think this way this woman does.
You don’t bitch about staying in motels, then bitch that no motel will take you without a credit card. You know the damn system and you know damn well where to get birth control. Working two jobs while going to school? Boo-hoo. Did that through high school for food. Ate out of garbage cans on the weekends. No sleep? Sure. But I’ve found out that sleep deprivation happens to anyone. Quick, easy junk food? Yes. But we never thought of that as a ‘poor decision making’. That was what we did to get the best bang for our buck and it was considered smart. We never doubted that choice. She bitches about not having the incentive to ‘improve herself’ but she’s in college!
SHE IS LYING.
Don’t tell me that ‘people don’t think like you do’. I grew up in this socioeconomic class. Poor decision making skills? Yup! Lots of that. Living in the moment? Yes.
But these are the biggest ‘dreamers’ you’ve ever met. That’s how they survive!
Suicidal depression? Turning to alcohol and drugs for relief from the despair? Always.
But that was when you just couldn’t ‘hope’ yourself out of reality for another minute. Then you either survived or you died. If you lived, you kept on dreaming until the next crash.
As someone who knew NOTHING but poverty for two straight decades, I am telling you that THIS person has no idea what she’s talking about.
There are way too many holes in her story.
My, you are working yourself into quite a passion over this, aren’t you? All caps, accusations that the writer is lying, misquoting some very simple words from me...
I did not write, as you maintain, that ‘people don’t think like you do’. I wrote, “perhaps not everybody thinks just like you do.” (I just cut and pasted those phrases to insure accuracy.) And of course, people don’t all think and react in just the same way. You can’t seriously believe that everyone in the world thinks the same way you do. I certainly do not.
If you read what she wrote, she had a middle-class upbringing. She was not raised in poverty. Neither was I. Of course, when hard times came our perceptions and reactions were different from yours.
It might be helpful if you were to ask yourself just what you are so angry about.
I agree that there are many holes in the story. Her supposed schedule is nonsense, I don’t believe it, and there are several other leaps of logic.
I also found your post very eloquent - very powerful writing. Perhaps you should consider doing some articles. The success of this unconvincing piece suggests that more could be done by better writers ...