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I was on the bus the other day and saw a high school girl who seemed so confident it made me feel small. I honestly felt like there was nothing I could tell her that she didn't already know or know better than me.
But that didn't make sense, I'm 29, engineer working in an R&D lab, yet I'm just a KHHV barely above minimum wage, but the challenges I deal with in life are probably much tougher in absolute terms. There must be something I could teach someone her age. So why the hell do I feel like a kid compared to her?

Then I started projecting: she's probably had a couple of boyfriends, some sexual experience, maybe a job or two, taken internships, built contacts, learned to handle crappy bosses, and in general feels like she's "mastered" teenage life. Meanwhile, I've never felt like I've dominated any stage of life. Never had that first-win narrative. Every achievement feels transactional or invisible. No fanfare, no microvictories stacking into self-assuredness. Just... trudging along.

Then I thought about the success stories from my generation in college: guys who got top internships, had charisma that opened doors, or could study for hours without burning out and already had a portfolio before college. Almost all of them had that same thing in common, they felt like they mastered teenage life by the time they entered college.
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>>82692893
2/2

But how does one go about mastering teenage life? This might just be me but in all those cases it always seemed that their families were at the very least economically accommodated. Not rich but the kind of setup where you could fuck up your first attempt asking someone out or spending money on a project, and your parents wouldn't torch you. You could experiment, fail, and get a second chance, maybe even a third. That's how you build confidence: trial and error without catastrophic consequences.

We weren't poor, not by a long shot, but we lived like every dollar was sacred. Strict, conservative budgeting where money was only for emergencies because my parents grew up poor. I never felt like I could ask my parents for anything unless I had a guarantee of success, like failure wasn't even an option.

So loser anon, do you think your economic situation as a kid influenced the fuck-up you are today?
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>>82692893
What does being poor have to do with you having a very low IQ? Tons of poor people have been able to master the things they need to do to survive and deal with their own community. in fact, to your point about KHHV cuckoldry and incoherent musings about sexual experience, poor people master sex and having a bunch of kids faster than anyone with money.
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>>82692926
>We weren't poor, not by a long shot,
You weren't poor,
>>82692926
>I never felt like I could ask my parents for anything unless I had a guarantee of success, like failure wasn't even an option.
This is the problem.



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