🚫 What it means to have grown up experiencing socio-economic discrimination
Growing up with socio-economic discrimination meant your family's financial situation made you feel "less than" in a world where money determined your access to opportunities, respect, and belonging.
You may have learned to calculate whether your family could afford basic necessities while other kids worried about which snacks to choose. Your survival strategy became making something from nothing and reading the subtle signs that money was getting tight before anyone said a word, developing remarkable resourcefulness but also chronic anxiety about scarcity.
You may have felt most at home with others who understood financial struggle, gravitating toward spaces where not having money wasn't seen as a personal failing. But the wound of class discrimination means you sometimes push yourself twice as hard to prove you're enough, haunted by fear that every negative assumption about poor people might be true.