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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got a free PC as a bday gift for my 18th bday, which I was bullied into giving up to my younger brother, ending my wannabe developer career.

I stared at walls for a good chunk of my life, thinking if only I had something to work with, maybe I'd make something.

Wondering if there was some junk I could turn into an useful machine.

Now I'm in debt, because I had to pull my family out of debt.

I only inherited genetic diseases, I live out of spite to the world that didn't want me.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Left with debt and trauma, yet we didn't ask to be born. Especially into this nightmare. This world and those at the top have a host to answer for.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is why I don't want and won't have kids. I spent my entire childhood asking "why would you bring me here, if you don't want me?"

i feel that in my bones.

i didn't have kids because like, growing up in this. fuck that. i care too much about them to let them live in this.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

I was adopted, then abused. Like, they had to go out of their way to get a kid and then treated it like crap. Met my bio mom as an adult. She was 15, drunk, wanted to get laid at a party, and by the time she realized she was pregnant couldn’t abort. Fucking pro-lifers, I was this close to not having to deal with this shit. This close!!!!

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Pretty much. Unwanted in the world, yet treated as if we owe it something in return.