"No cable TV" is a struggle? This is one of the few times where the following is actually fair to use: check your fucking privilege.
My older brother wasn't planned; and my mother WAS on birth control at the time. Abortion is a pretty strong trigger for my mother, and thus really isn't much of an option for her. So, my brother was born. Born to a pair of parents to whom $40 was a lot of money. To parents that were having to survive off fucking BLACKBERRIES THEY FOUND ON A BUSH outside my maternal grandfather's house. They were denied food stamps and welfare because "they made too much money." My grandmother didn't lift a finger to help them, neither did my grandfather. Nobody was there to save them, nobody was there to fucking help them, and they survived.
I was actually wanted, planned for, but even I was still born to a family that was under constant threat of homelessness and hunger. Those two threats, by the way, were only removed in the past few months. I've lived with that fear my whole god damned life. I knew nobody that could help us would. My grandmother held no love for us, and my grandfather considers us vultures. Other family members, the ones that aren't complete pieces of shit, would help where they could, of course, but their means are very limited.
So, the next time you think you've got it hard because you can't watch Cartoon Network or AMC, remember the story of my fucking family. Remember my poor mother. Then, shut your whiny cunthole of a mouth before I fucking stab it shut with skewers.
