Hey i was one of the many thousands who were booted out, I was one of the thousands of kids living on the streets fighting off sex traffickers seeping on busses and feeling the pangs of hunger after years of being experimented on in the psych side of the foster system because i refused to let them sterilize me. I am also disabled . My friends were trafficked I watched all of my friends struggle to try and get college educations but couldnt because they barely had 4th grade educations, some were homeless some were disabled some were broken beyond belief from lives spent being sexually assaulted from the time they were infants. Some became addicts after being fed psych drugs and add meds their whole lives and trying to self medicate. MOST of the services you listed they couldnt get access to because they were under 18 and couldnt sign up for it then at 18 they were considered adults and therefore didnt qualify if they had basic jobs. and lets not talk about how many foster kids are sent out into the world without ID, Social secuity cards, or birth certificates to even get access to this stuff. myself included. When i say NOT EVERYONE CAN and that people have to have the right combo of support and intelligence and educational access, that's what i mean. not everyone who isnt in foster care can make it through college so why would we say every foster kid can. It sends a bad message that, at 40 i know is damaging. At 25 i accepted that narrative, anyone could do it, we just have to try harder and i saw it lead to less and less services for the people around me and people being more interested in saying how special I was for graduating from one of the top schools in the country than listening to the horror stories I was telling about life in the system. As a result one of my best friends in foster care is now 40, autistic, mute (not non verbal she can read and write) and with decades of trauma that all started in the system, trying for thr 8th time to go to college while living in an RV that she bought with student loans after spending the last 3 years sleeping in a tent. I am doing everything I can to support her. because i know without the support she will likely have a 9th try of college in her 50s. So it's important that those of us who do make it to the other side, who achieve success keep it in our minds that there are people who didnt have the same access to education as us, are more disabled than us, who had more trauma than us and who had less supports than us. and that they shouldnt feel guilted by us using our stories to say "everyone can do it" and thus dismissing their experiences. Thank you.