Great Kysilia wrote:Czechostan wrote:This is an incredibly surbanite, white, middle-class-centric view of how people grow up. If you live in a poorer community, if you grow up as a minority, if you grow up in a claustrophobic, bustling city, you're by no means sheltered.
I am poor and do live in a poorer community.
High school was still a much more sheltered time for me.
Sounds like a decent high school experience. Not so for most of the poorer people I've talked to, who have come from broken homes or whose schools don't have adequate funding or who fall into drug addiction. Perhaps you're the exception.