You Hate Gutter Punks: Here’s My Reason to Love Them.
<p>We’ve all begged, borrowed or stolen.</p>
<p>For some value of those terms.</p>
<p>We’ve all been guilty: stolen time from jobs fucking around on FB, borrowed pens, begged for attention… humiliated ourselves begging to belong.</p>
<p>Chicago in the summer and fall is a hub for gutter punks who get immediately derided on local forums. Reddit’s r/chicago, Nextdoor Chicago and neighborhood Facebook groups explode with photos of these kids on expensive cell phones. Eye roll emojis abound.</p>
<p>But when I saw them, I got it.</p>
<p>I’ve never been goth, or punk, or nerd, or geek or or or… felt accepted by any subculture. Even in the storytelling world, I… am an outlier, not fully comfortable in my own skin. But when they see me. These dropouts see into me.</p>
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