40 “Invisible” Privileges That Most People Don’t Notice Because They Have Them

I try to enjoy the good days :) Same for you. Hugs!

Yes but I have my family to help me and that puts me in a slightly better position to others who have the same situation and free health care

You're lucky for the family. I have rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia and no help. I take care of my 83 year old mother with dementia. Some days are really not a lot of fun.

Virtual hugs for you

Thanks so much.

I understand the physical and emotional pain. I hope that there is someone in your life to help you, at least emotionally.

I have emotional help from my daughter who is wonderful but not physical help because she lives 5 hours away.

I have fibromyalgia and I am going back to see my neurologist to see if anything else is going on. My family are the absolute best, they help me with anything I need. I’m sorry that you have all the struggles and hope you have some support coming to you from someone

Thank you

I'm fully aware of the definition. Everything listed here is not restricted to a specific person or group of people. Having emotionally, financially stable parents who care about you being a privilege? C'mon. Gee, I wish I had that. What group or persons would that classify me in? Having great parents can happen to any person of any income class, race, religion, etc, etc. Having shitty parents can happen to anyone. It's unfortunate and not the fault of the child. Privilege is a luxury that can be taken away when it's deserved to be.

Having a privilege has nothing to do with deserving it, ones circumstances dictates ones privileges so yeah it can happen to anyone. From what I can tell same goes for disadvantages too, everyone has some of both though certainly some have more or less of one or the other.

Happy for you and your family that you both survived.

Thanks! You too

Some jobs are not just jobs. They are long worked for careers. Many people (myself included) have a dread of losing their whole career because of small minded administrations. Once you've lost such a 'job' it is nearly impossible to re-enter your chosen profession. You can't just say "oh I'll just go get another job." That is not easy to do because your record follows you everywhere.

I will Vlacas. Hugs.

Yep, you need a license (or hours of training) to be allowed to do many things in this world. I believe some sort of requirement should be made in high school so that future parents would both have an idea of what they are getting into as well as instruction about things that will help their children do well in school and then life.

Only hearing that small part of the story makes it easy to judge Samantha, you don’t know the rest of it though. The people you speak of didn’t just decide to be shitty parents, it was a culmination of the shitty circumstances they themselves were born into. Chances are very good the person who beat their child with a belt was beaten as a child and so on. I’m not condoning their shitty behaviour, but I do believe that everyone is doing the best they can with what they have and some folks have had very, very little in the way of resources and a whole lot of hurt in this traumatized world. We are all a product of our circumstances.

Yes, we all learn from our parents- being like our parents or not being like our parents. My father was an alcoholic, who had to raise us after my parents divorced because our mother was escaping all the problems at home and did not want to ruin that escape by taking us along (6 of us back when you did not let anyone know your parents were divorced). Yes, my father beat us with a belt - his father had beaten him. We did not get lunch money and there was no free lunch at school. We brought what we could from home. We did acquire good work ethic because our father worked hard and demanded that we did as well. Every one of us used this background to parent bett

Hit post before I was finished editing what I was trying to explain. There were six of us, one went on to beat his kids, one drank to excess, but mostly we all tried to use our experiences to become better parents than we had - choosing to parent differently. All of us kept the work ethic he'd passed on to us - getting through college and/or working our way out of the lowest jobs that we started in. as well as a number of other traits we chose to carry on. Now, I'm sure our kids will do the same thing / picking and choosing what they experienced with us to determine how they will raise their families.