12-24-2013, 01:15 PM
To clarify my post: kids don't understand the material things they don't have. The emotional neglect they ALWAYS recognize, and the material stuff they only learn to resent in hindsight when they grow up and see how other kids had it in comparison. I have a laundry list of fucked up shit rolling around in my psyche thanks to the parents, but "not getting an Xbox" isn't one of them. That's more a suburban kid problem. We were happy if there was food to eat. Big family + compulsive gambler = a whole lot of skimpy meals.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.