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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people are awful and are one of the reasons former foster youth are so stigmatized. I grew up in foster care and aged out at 18. I lived in dozens of homes from infancy until I aged out. I experienced severe abuse and trauma. I aged out into homelessness my senior year of high school, but I graduated with a 4.2 GPA and went on to college. I graduated at the top of my class. Today I have a career and run a program to better the lives of former foster youth. Do I have problems? Sure, but so do you! And if you don't, you're lying to yourself.

I could start listing off all kinds of people struggling in life and try to lump them as a class of people to stamp warning labels on. You know who are the most dangerous people statically? Straight, White, Heterosexual, MIDDLE CLASS men.

And I don't believe that telling someone you grew up in foster care is taboo or something you should be ashamed to bring up on a second date. It's like saying you can't tell someone you have a mom and a dad on a second date. Or telling gay people not to mention their partners because it's just too much information that they love someone. Foster care was my life experience and I'm not going to hide it to make YOU feel more comfortable. It might make you uncomfortable because it's not the same story you're used to hearing, but that's your problem, not mine. It took me a LONG time, but I finally stopped being ashamed of it. When people ask me about my family (because everyone asks about your family) I tell them I grew up in foster care. Screw you people with your severe judgement and/or pity. [/quote]

Why the hell did you bump an 18 month old thread to  write this?
That means you deliberately had to look for threads on foster care that you perceived to be negative so you could go on your rant .   Not the actions of a healthy person. Seek help.

- another person who grew up in foster care.[/quote]

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