I am about to turn 24, and I (am lucky enough to) still live with my parents whereas most of my friends have already "moved on." I live in a small town in the bible belt, and it seems like a good chunk of the people that just graduated college are now getting married to their high school sweetheart and having kids right off the bat. Some of my other high school friends (I didn't have a good college run) are now actuaries, accountants, and IT guys and are relatively comfortable with serious partners. Needless to say, I can't really relate to them at all anymore, unfortunately (nor would they really have time to get together regardless).
Idk I just kinda feel embarrassed about the state of my life as a person in their mid-twenties still living at home and I'm curious if anyone can relate. My parents aren't rich or anything like that, so they can't help me pay off my student debt or any of my medical bills, but they're giving me a place for free so I cannot complain. It seems like everywhere I go I can't get away from people (or even media in general) mocking the idea of living with your parents because you're a loser with mental health problems who can't pull yourself up by the bootstraps and start a company with your trust fund money or some shit
I don't, but if I did FUCK no, theres nothing wrong in the slightest with still living at home, for MILLIONS of people that's the only play that makes sense, anyone who finds that shameful can sit on a cactus and gargle battery acid
feeling shame for living at home is like so many other things a brainworm obtained through indoctrination, same as how it's 'taboo' to discuss pay at work. It's NOT, they just want you to feel that way to motivate you to behave advantageously to them. Don't talk about your pay so we can more easily get away with paying you less. Don't stay living at home, you have to move out so we can sink our fingers into you, burden you with (more) debt, and extract profits from you
Thanks for the kind words :)
Happy to say them! :Care-Comrade:
You're valuable inherently, you needn't fulfil arbitrary benchmarks of our capitalist society for that to be true, it's just hard to remember sometimes. Stay strong comrade!
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