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This is cute, I'm mostly a lurker but I guess I'll post just to bump this. I'm BougieBitch, a white gay from Indiana who hosed off out of the state as soon as humanly possible. Both of my parents were professors, so I had a privileged upbringing as far as education went, but my dad died when I was still in elementary school and I spent basically all of my school years coping with depression and ADHD. I got good grades despite that, and was able to get the National Merit Scholarship, which, at the time, was good for full tuition at a few institutions still, so I took the chance to move out to the northeast to get a degree in biology. However, full tuition didn't include room and board, and my mom refused to cosign a loan or otherwise help me pay for the other expenses, which I had been paying for out of the remnants of my dad's Social Security survivor payouts, so I transferred to my hometown college where I ended up paying less for (discounted) tuition, an apartment, and food than I would have for any one of the three. I finished in another year and moved back out to Boston to escape the sucking void of life and culture that is the Midwest, but I didn't manage to find a job that used my degree and I had to couchsurf for a bit while trying to find an apartment that would lease to me with no income stream. Literally the day I finally was able to move in somewhere I got a call from my stepdad telling me my mom had committed suicide by ODing on pain pills and so basically everything went back to square one. It's now 5 years later and I struck out on each of a series of attempts to become employable (couldn't get into grad school because I didn't have lab experience, had a terrible time with a teacher credentialing program, and just finished getting a second degree in computer science right into the middle of the pandemic), but things are mostly stable now cuz I got lucky with dating and am now married to someone who can support my dumb depressed rear end while I try to get my life sorted. I'd consider myself pretty leftist in terms of policy preference, but I tend to butt heads with the doomers and anti-incrementalists. Part of that is due to good experiences working within the system to get what I needed on the state level with Medicaid and on the national level with my dad's SS benefits, which obviously isn't typical for most posters/Americans. I also tend towards wonkish policy due to being from a family of eggheads, and I pay the closest attention to education, healthcare, and the Supreme Court. The threads I most regularly frequent are USPol, the Coronavirus thread, and the SC thread, though I also glance at the Israel/Palestine thread when it moves up to the first page and I've started reading the Poliwonks thread lately. Right now I'm working with a mutual aid org in my area to try to get food distributed to the unemployed and undocumented people in my city, which has been a lot more rewarding than repeatedly slamming my head into a wall with job apps. I'm hoping companies will start hiring more soon though, so I can at least have something on my resume before I'm 30. Fingers crossed!
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