It's interesting how these things affect different people.
I mean, this one gave me Emotions too, but very different ones -- while my parents weren't wealthy, they both worked, and that meant that we kept the lights on and could spare some food for me to experiment with (and I went shopping with whichever parent was buying food, usually my mother, so I had an idea of what things cost). On the other hand because they both worked I spent a lot of time in the house by myself once I 'graduated' from babysitting, and because I've always been fat trying to watch my mother cook was very hit or miss because she would often yell at me for being fat, send me away from the kitchen, and restrict what I could eat.
But otoh we did always have utilities and enough food that I could waste some. And you're right, that is privilege.
Also, part of my approach to this is that I love to cook (and bake, and they are different). It's one of my creative outlets, and I chose it in part because it's relatively inexpensive (flour and sugar cost less than marble or oil paints, anyway). I would have been upset if I'd been barred from cooking due to expense just as I would have been if I'd been barred from drawing because paper and pens cost too much. But then, I knew we could have these things. If paper and pens and flour and sugar had indeed cost us too much... at any rate, you've given me a lot of food for thought.
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I mean, this one gave me Emotions too, but very different ones -- while my parents weren't wealthy, they both worked, and that meant that we kept the lights on and could spare some food for me to experiment with (and I went shopping with whichever parent was buying food, usually my mother, so I had an idea of what things cost). On the other hand because they both worked I spent a lot of time in the house by myself once I 'graduated' from babysitting, and because I've always been fat trying to watch my mother cook was very hit or miss because she would often yell at me for being fat, send me away from the kitchen, and restrict what I could eat.
But otoh we did always have utilities and enough food that I could waste some. And you're right, that is privilege.
Also, part of my approach to this is that I love to cook (and bake, and they are different). It's one of my creative outlets, and I chose it in part because it's relatively inexpensive (flour and sugar cost less than marble or oil paints, anyway). I would have been upset if I'd been barred from cooking due to expense just as I would have been if I'd been barred from drawing because paper and pens cost too much. But then, I knew we could have these things. If paper and pens and flour and sugar had indeed cost us too much... at any rate, you've given me a lot of food for thought.