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Honestly I don’t think I’ll ever get my mom and stepdad’s logic of “when we were 15 we were paying the rent for our family’s house so why are you at 19 not working a corporate job”? And then at the same time growing up they’d talk ab how hard they worked so that my siblings and I would never know poverty. And are suprised??? We don’t have poverty level survival skills?? Suprise suprise the kids you raised in suburbia who are only used to paying car insurance and gas are not ready to budget for living alone 6 months after graduating high school.
Like seriously it took me actually interacting with other people my age and who are older than me to realize that being 19 and still living with your parents isn’t a bad/shameful thing. And that’s honestly sad. And this isn’t to say they didn’t struggle, they absolutely did, but why do I have to struggle too?? Why do they think the only way you’re supposed to learn finances is being on the brink of homelessness????