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I had a very difficult upbringing.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.

I'm like, 'Wow, I guess a lot of people didn't have this type of upbringing'... that old world technique of, you know, nothing's given to you, you've gotta work for everything you've done... It's just different from what I'm seeing today.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.