For context - I'm the only child of 2 university educated top professional parents and up until 13 went to a predominantly very middle class school with similar children. I felt different from my school friends - I was the only be who was an only child and had a much more career focused mother than the rest.
The other thing is - and this is slightly different from a lot of 'naice middle class families maybe but maybe cos I was an only child with /2 career oriented parents I ended up watching loads of - telly - 😮 - even as young as 7 - and when I mentioned a TV programme - often my classmates hadn't heard of it. Now I actually don't think this was a bad thing at all as it happens 'cos I think it opened my eyes to new experiences. As an only child I ended up watching more telly and being on my own a lot more than my classmates through default really - and I don't think this is a bad thing - think it's quite a good thing actually as it made me feel freer and opened my eyes up to new experiences and broadened my outlook. The bad thing is maybe is that I felt nothing much in common with my peers and used to hate their games and spend a lot of lunchtimes in the yard on my own.
The other thing is - which may make some people clutch pearls - we went as a family on packaged holidays abroad to working class hotels 😮😮 - think Majorca etc where the demographic would be a bit like the types in the sitcom Phoenix Nights! My school friends by contrast went on 'naice' holidays with other m/c educated families, My mum was a boring wallflower and never socialised with anyone on holiday - cos she was eager to point out the differences between her and our fellow holiday makers. Thing is I found the Phoenix Nights brigade much better company than my schoolmates and their families !
My mum also used to drink and get aggressive so this might explain things as well - as an only child j was left on my own to deal with this shit show !! I can remember going to a friends 10th birthday party, feeling it was shit and feeling I had nowt in common with these rather prissy, precious girls.
Anyone else feel this level of disconnect from people they grew up with ?