i am a high functioning who for years. i think i came out nice

[Marika]

I always wonder whenever I see posts about JD Vance poverty growing up…what
to believe?
I mean, think about it… I have no idea what my father’s salary ever was,
but same kind of claims (both extremes) could be made about us.
We didn’t grow up in the heart of the ghetto, but we were darn close, just
like Vance didn’t grow up in the heart of Appalachia. Close, but not in the
heart of it.
Our house was 4 bedrooms too (6 if you count the third floor) and looked
pretty un-poor from the outside. The neighborhood was nice back then.
We didn’t take golf lessons, but we regularly went skiing, ice skating, and
camping, month long summer camps (as bad as they were, I’m sure they
weren’t cheap), had a above ground pool in the backyard, and went to
private school for 12 years each.
All that makes us sound pretty not-poor, don’t you think?
I really think almost anything can be framed and presented to achieve an
agenda, on either end of the spectrum. I should write a book, too.

The only really big difference between us and Vance is that our mother
didn’t throw it all away by being a drug addict who married 3 times and had
to ship her kids away to grandparents.
Oh, and none of us ever got a free ride at a prestigious graduate school.

[Marika]

Post by Marika
I always wonder whenever I see posts about JD Vance poverty growing up…what
to believe?
I mean, think about it… I have no idea what my father’s salary ever was,
but same kind of claims (both extremes) could be made about us.
We didn’t grow up in the heart of the ghetto, but we were darn close, just
like Vance didn’t grow up in the heart of Appalachia. Close, but not in the
heart of it.
Our house was 4 bedrooms too (6 if you count the third floor) and looked
pretty un-poor from the outside. The neighborhood was nice back then.
We didn’t take golf lessons, but we regularly went skiing, ice skating, and
camping, month long summer camps (as bad as they were, I’m sure they
weren’t cheap), had a above ground pool in the backyard, and went to
private school for 12 years each.
All that makes us sound pretty not-poor, don’t you think?
I really think almost anything can be framed and presented to achieve an
agenda, on either end of the spectrum. I should write a book, too.
The only really big difference between us and Vance is that our mother
didn’t throw it all away by being a drug addict who married 3 times and had
to ship her kids away to grandparents.
Oh, and none of us ever got a free ride at a prestigious graduate school.

I was watching There is No I in Threesome

Boring. Logged out half way thru

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-02-13/there-is-no-i-in-threesome-twist-hbo-max

[Marika]

Post by Marika

Post by Marika
I always wonder whenever I see posts about JD Vance poverty growing up…what
to believe?
I mean, think about it… I have no idea what my father’s salary ever was,
but same kind of claims (both extremes) could be made about us.
We didn’t grow up in the heart of the ghetto, but we were darn close, just
like Vance didn’t grow up in the heart of Appalachia. Close, but not in the
heart of it.
Our house was 4 bedrooms too (6 if you count the third floor) and looked
pretty un-poor from the outside. The neighborhood was nice back then.
We didn’t take golf lessons, but we regularly went skiing, ice skating, and
camping, month long summer camps (as bad as they were, I’m sure they
weren’t cheap), had a above ground pool in the backyard, and went to
private school for 12 years each.
All that makes us sound pretty not-poor, don’t you think?
I really think almost anything can be framed and presented to achieve an
agenda, on either end of the spectrum. I should write a book, too.
The only really big difference between us and Vance is that our mother
didn’t throw it all away by being a drug addict who married 3 times and had
to ship her kids away to grandparents.
Oh, and none of us ever got a free ride at a prestigious graduate school.

I was watching There is No I in Threesome
Boring. Logged out half way thru
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-02-13/there-is-no-i-in-threesome-twist-hbo-max

“morning. Hadn’t I also admired photographs of his strange children? Wasn’t
there something about a diabetic wife? “Miss Gunnar,” he always called me,
and did not despise me or ignore me for my sweetness.
He leaned on the desk and peered closely at me. His sympathy melted me.
Tears—I didn’t feel them until they hit my chin. The middle of my face felt
shut off, shorted out.
“Gu-blug,” I muttered, nonsense. My throat was full of mucus. I stood up, I
tried to speak. “It wasn’t—” I started to sob. The enormous ugliness of my
face was distinctly tangible. I wanted to explain that it was a lost love
that had made me behave so wildly, that of course I knew it was foolish for
one such as I, hardly above slime, to presume to love. I wanted to tell him
I had always been a sucker for a pretty face.
“It’s not drugs! It’s…” Pain, I was going to say, and to aid my credibility
I employed a half-remembered tool of rhetoric, the downward swoop of the
palms to the podium—in this case, the back office desk. But instead I fell
onto the raised[…]”

Excerpt From
Toad
Katherine Dunn