 dmegivern says: Been waiting for science to confirm what I always knew & felt growing up in poverty. It's not just about the money, it's the pain that makes it traumatic. This article was life-validating. Another great clip from dmegivern ( please don't stay away so long ).  It's true that poverty hurts. I've got pretty thick skin but I have to admit that sometimes it does hurt that I am never included in family functions. I'm not only not invited but a point is made to make sure I don't know about them.Just because I'm poor doesn't mean I'm stupid. I do find out what is going on. I resonate with tanya's comment. The clip made me take off my thick skin of dignity and pride to see how day on day and year on year real material poverty eats into me and excludes me. Bravo - a valuable comment - how profoundly we misunderstand the implications and causes of poverty! And how dreadfully we minimize them! It appears to be soul-crushing in a way that most of us never know. Perhaps its unsurprising but I don't entirely agree. The only time money or lack thereof causes distress is when it prevents you from supporting yourself or someone you care for, keeping up with the Jones' is a bit fickle by comparison to that. In my experience and that of a couple of friends of mine it builds character, makes you resourceful, adaptable and rarely if ever ungrateful for what you do have. Perhaps it is just my gypsy lineage that gives me another way of looking at things or perhaps how my mum raised me, but at some point in my late teens I simply stopped caring what people thought about me and decided to just do my own thing, I don't even think it was a conscious decision... |
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