Some people have harder lifes than others.
Saying everybody has a few things that they struggle is kind of offensive.
I struggle because my parents were drug addicts and my father tried to kill us all when I was 5.
Saying everybody has a few things that they struggle is kind of offensive.
I struggle because my parents were drug addicts and my father tried to kill us all when I was 5.
You can have a life harder than most and at the same time not having the worst life in the world.
17% of children experience violence at home. The fact that 5000k away there are other kids dying in wars is the consolation you think it is.
And at the gifted children's organisations I've seen families who have it much harder than we ever did. Children in those families grew up to be resilient, face danger, and overcome obstacles direct and obstacles covert. Some of them with physical disabilities too.
Somebody is always suffering worse than we are.
The comment they replied to was apparently suggesting that everyone struggles in some areas, so it's meaningless to highlight one group's struggle over another given that they all have reached a certain stable career.
GP main point (as I understand it) is: no, some people actually do struggle harder than others to make it.
I don't know why people get triggered and start comparing traumas but let's avoid doing it here.
I certainly don't want to compare traumas and I don't consider my family to be traumatised. I'm certain that some HNers could describe further personal experiences that they've overcome. Have we any Sudanese? People from east Ukraine? Yeminites?