How Spoiled - or let’s say - Privileged?

Let’s find out how spoiled Philipp is after all. Things that are true, are marked as bold.

1. Father went to college.
2. Father finished college.
3. Mother went to college.
4. Mother finished college. (OK, we kids, the new Aschauer generation should definitely get further than this).
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor - aunt is a maths professor.
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home - I don’t think so, and if I didn’t touch all 500 of them. I was into Tom Turbo, the Knickerbockerbande, but that’s about it. I have more books now though, and given I am 19, I am struggling with the term and definition of “childhood.”
9. Were read children’s books by a parent - one way my mom was motivating us to get into reading books (she finially succeeded) was a genius deal: She’d read one page and I/my brother the next one. If that reading session was before going to bed, we’d fall asleep sooner than my mom wanted us.
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 - Haha, I was waiting for a question like that considering the “how much did you read when you were young”-point. Welll, I had flute lessons annnd then my parents invested into a Philipp plays guitar Hero. As you might know: I am not musical at all. So this was a pure failure.
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18 - Flute and Guitar, so can we now skip the traumatic musical education part of my non-musical childhood, geeez! My potential was so poor I didn’t even dare marking it bold. So here a silent “mhm.”
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively - Oh media is soooo not objective, so people who wouldn’t mark that bold should never mind that point.
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18 - OK, I am not that fancy pants, but I got one now, before I turned 19. Quite spoiled though, but I needed it to go to the US to pay for bills and crap. So that doesn’t help the fact that I am spoiled. Anyhoooo…
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs - Not yet in college, but they will, who else? Me? The bank? Huh… Funny people asking questions like that.
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs - They better. Or I’ll end up flipping burgers at McDonalds.
16. Went to a private special high school - OK, BRG Krems Ringstraße is special in so many ways but not in an educational aspect. If you now know what I am alluting to, HONK!
17. Went to summer camp - Nopes. Never have, might want to do that though in case I end up as a teacher. DO IT FOR THE KIDS.
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18 - I did give private tutor lessons.
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels - Like camping is for losers. I did camp. Just not as a family.
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18 - Until the age of 5. That was the time span I wasn’t rhetorically strong enough to talk my parents out of having me wear all the old cloths of my brother. After that I was ruling my parents pretty muchas and got all new cloths, so I am way to proud of that to not put it in freaking bold letters.
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them - Nopes, sharing it with brother and sister on the weekends. It works out well, surprisingly.
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child.
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house.
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home.
25. You had your own room as a child - As I said above with the cloths, until I was 13 I had to share my room with my brother but after that I was rhetorically wise enough (My wisdom came in stages, you know.) to make them break down a wall to enhance the living quality of the rooms I was dumped in. My mom’s office was merged with the storage room.
26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18 - Duh, of course. 12 or so.
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course - I am glad I didn’t have to worry about SATs.
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school - Well I did. But my children won’t have TVs in their bedrooms. All the nasty things that are on TV nowadays.
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college - Bausparer do count as funds right?
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 - Turkey and Greece.
31. Went on a cruise with your family - I was so little I can’t remember. I see pictures in my album but I am like “When was that?!” - Besides, when I was little I didn’t like going on boats, ships and planes. I was afraid of crashes. That somehow changed when I was 16 or so. Haha.
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family - Cruises I don’t remember.
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up - Yep, there is this great visit of the nature history museum.
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family - I didn’t know until my dad made us go to the woods and cut down trees and shit (I couldn’t help the naughty expression there).

NOT SO SPOILED AFTER ALL. 21 out of 34.

This meme is from “What Privileges Do You Have?”, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.

Thank you Amiexpat for this fun meme.