Off My Chest
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Nobody in this thread knows your life story, yet you respond as if they should. First, you say you went back to college 5-6 times. No other information or context for why. Then, you introduce a new fact (that you went into massive debt) when someone says that’s lucky or privileged as though they should have known that information. Then, when they make the rational presumption that your massive debt you acquired throughout your time in college is from going to college, you reveal more information that it’s all medical debt, again as though that should have been obvious without ever giving any indication of that being the case beyond the vague term “survival” (which I took to mean surviving modern society with a high paying degree job).
I understand and appreciate that your statements make sense in your head within the context of your lived experiences, but when you choose to engage with strangers on the internet you are choosing to engage with people who lack that context and need it spelled out for them. So when someone replies to you in a manner that does not match the context they don’t have, maybe it would be a better use of time and energy to just provide that context instead of belittling them for not reading your mind.
And yes, you are still privileged for having gone to college 5-6 times. Not everybody gets accepted to college even once, which makes any college attendance at all some form of privilege. I would think after the second or third acceptance your future applications would be considered more risky for the school. The fact that they accommodated you another 2-3 times after that seems to me a sign of extra privilege, not less. Or is there even more context you’ve withheld that invalidates that line of thinking?