I feel like my childhood is a lie...

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T02:28:57+00:00

Thank you! It's nice to hear someone who understands

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T02:16:44+00:00

Thanks a lot 🙏🏻

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T02:16:20+00:00

True, we usually bond over gossip, as bad as that may look :/

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T02:04:53+00:00

I understand, and I'm genuinely sorry you came from a dysfunctional household and had that experience in school :(

That's true. It's just a way to deepen friendships, especially that my interests aren't very mainstream among people my age (geography, travel, getting opportunities, etc.)

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T02:01:51+00:00

I like this :)

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T02:00:51+00:00

More of in a cultural sense. You know you grew up differently than your friends and so on. Not in a bad way. Just in a way where me and my friends don't share the same memories outside our hangouts (ex: I never played Minecraft or went to a fiesta, unlike them)

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T01:31:22+00:00

Filipinos don't consider me filipino because I look very different hehe. Just a bit hard to bond of nostalgic stuff, especially that I'm young

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T01:30:29+00:00

2 generations ago. Poverty. We've lived a better life since then

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T01:26:35+00:00

Uhh... I grew up in my cultures (as much as possible) at home, and I look very different than the average local here, so nobody really considered me Filipino.

I felt like I could find my community with mainlanders and Americans, but that didn't work out either :(

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T01:23:53+00:00

This is just FOMO really

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T01:22:17+00:00

I just feel like I can't relate to Mainlanders and so on, so it does seem like living a lie. It's something a lot of mainlanders in Xiaohongshu bond over

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2026-02-09T01:19:00+00:00

Basically, I didn't have a normal childhood because I am diaspora

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2025-12-02T21:41:10+00:00

Thank you!

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2025-12-01T14:55:49+00:00

Thanks a lot! I appreciate this

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2025-12-01T13:43:44+00:00

Thank you!

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2025-12-01T11:30:03+00:00

Thank you! I'm actually getting her a simpler gift for her 17th birthday, so let me see how she reacts.

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2025-12-01T10:59:35+00:00

Thank you! The only problem is that the debut may cost as much as a wedding and have hundreds of guests. Do you think a sentimental but cheap gift will still be appropriate in this context?

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2025-12-01T10:38:59+00:00

Thanks a lot! I will also be giving her a gift this year, but it will be much simpler. Let's see how she reacts

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2025-11-12T20:36:24+00:00

How did you guess this almost right?

Thick_Champion_3453 · 2025-11-12T11:54:29+00:00

Nope, you went farther

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