J.D Vance, Best-Selling Author Opens Up About His Painful Childhood And The Future Ahead | NBC News 

3 of us were in orphanage 2 in private homes and all 5 in foster homes and children's mom got us back 2 times

God bless all those who rescue.

And Usha

His mamaw reminds me of my grandma the way she is shown in the show is pretty spot on to my gma and my gma is the one who I saw as taking care of me and she is truly my best friend

Not all heroes wear capes.

I’m adopted and was abandoned by my mother and loss my father to an overdose... You are indeed right I’m thirty two now and there are still scars.🥀😢💔

Ithaca Comments Yes

I'm only 4 years removed from childhood. I'm working on trying to recover. It is rough especially with little to no support.

@@sparklingdaisy3169 read the book 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. It will change ur life!

Oh yes the my mom watched the movie and it made her cry so bad. It was spot on. She has to deal with the trauma for the rest of her life.

Really? Just look at the reviews of his book on Amazon and you will see that he's anything but a 'champion for every child.'

@@jenniferlawrence9473 haters gonna hate. Jealousy is a wasted emotion. This guy made lemonade out of lemons and you want to take that from him? Wow, really??

@@PEGGYHART It's jealous to point out the problems with someone, that go ignored by others? If you like him, that's up to you. Don't pretend criticism is personally offensive or something.

@@fleebertreatise1063 what are the problems with him?

@@bhazerelli7611 Well, it's nothing about him personally. It's that his book and the movie from it gives a lot of the wrong messages. It makes everything about personal failing, and completely ignored systems that contribute to poverty in rural areas. The kind of capitalism that we have in the US has done a huge number in the rural areas of the country, and led to people leaving in droves. It is his personal story and that's fine, but some people are taking a message from it that doesn't make sense. Also, he could have helped his mother in a better way (from what happened in the movie). She's having a drug issue, and anyone going through that is going to have some struggles getting past it. Here's one criticism of his book and the surrounding conversation: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/leaving-conservatism-behind-blue-collar-republican-progressive

Totally Agree

That makeup was insane, she looked just like her!

Agreed she did excellent omg 😱

My fav character was mamaw you have a problem with that you can see the barrel of my gun epic

@@Crystalian432 she must've been such a sweet human in real life

So do i

I was balling 30 minutes in. It reminded of my and my family’s childhood.

Most of us can relate. Tears flowing hard.

I grew up around these people. My family was like this. But I found the movie to be so cringey. The acting was bad. It felt completely inauthentic

Me too.

You weren’t lucky, ...you did it! Give yourself a lot of credit.👍🇺🇸

I have been through a lot of what he has and my Grandmother played a HUGE role in why I didn't end up pregnant as a teenager and/or a drug addicted/alcoholic or dead.

@@krista8920 I’m so proud of you cos you listened to your amazing Grandma

The Book covers the Struggle of Poor Disenfranchised White people who are regularly neglected and ignored.

I also saw the movie and thought it was amazing, but what troubles me is that someone that grew up 'dirt poor' has chosen to be a Republican which traditionally is someone that supports the rich and corporate interested rather than the poor and disenfranchised. Sorry, I don't buy the good guy act for one second. It makes a good story though.

Vance was in great part able to overcome his past because he is highly intelligent and highly educated. There are many reasons people overcome their past but it helps to be so intelligent and good-looking and articulate. Some would give up because they are not of good IQ or looks or articulation and so many other things. Though most people have no idea how they looks and other things about themselves. So they get ahead through ignorance.

A lot of older siblings that grow up in these situations tend to blame themselves for not doing more to protect their younger siblings. I’m a counseling intern working w a client who blames herself for not protecting her younger siblings from their father molesting them.

So running for senate and bragging about the endorsement of an anti semite while being funded by billionaire Peter Thiel to then give him tax cuts and then screwing over people in Appalachia is awesome? Have you changed your opinion on Vance?

This was planned. The whole thing. The fact that he's now running for senate means that NBC, NY Times and even Ron Howard and Netflix were all (albeit unwittingly) working for his campaign. And he's in it for himself, not for helping others. He wants to make himself and his republican friends richer by pushing this republican trope of picking yourself up by your bootstraps. If he was serious, he'd be fighting to get serious legislative changes to the U.S: to actually help the poor and the middle class but alas he's not. Republican tax cuts do not help the poor. Nor does their war on drugs help solve the opioid crisis.

West Virginia, here. With you, babe. ❤️

Yeh it amazed me when I saw the real woman at the end of the film. They even walked the same

Same here...

How are you guys doing now? Did you get out of it?

you grew up in rural Appalachia also?

Mammaw looks exactly how I imagined her in my head upon reading his book.

Same girl. It was like I already watched the movie so many times before.

So true!

@J Walker it was playing in some theatres,, we saw it in Landmark theatres chain

I.e., in America!!

I don't think I ever got a good visual on her, just knew she wouldn't look like my grandparents. Thank God for grandparents, BTW! I don't know if they're so awesome because they learned from raising kids or what, but every positive thing I ever heard about myself? It was from my Grands. My Mom's mom was shocked and she cried when I mentioned this once. I think my parents were worried that telling us we were smart or pretty or even just loveable would make us "stuck up" or something. I know parents are usually doing the best they can, but it sucks to never hear kind words. Tell someone they're "crazy" or "stupid" from Day One? I don't know why my parents thought that was a good idea.

Me too!

She looks just like my Mamaw!

Solidarity with other people is one way to work through these problems. It's like looking at the situation and seeing that many people share in struggles, and if we can work together we can find solutions to them where we help not only ourselves, but others in the same situation. I'm not saying this is an obvious or easy thing. It really isn't. But it can be a helpful alternative to think and talk about when people bring this kind of thing up in a conversation at least.

I cannot understand why he would be a Trump supporter. Trump doesn’t care about the poor and disadvantaged. The GOP never has either. They’re a party for the rich and the white.

The Dems gained with the rich and white this election while the GOP gained with every minority group. get a new angle

@@ginaharris5793 It's really changed. When I was growing up, everyone I knew voted for Democrats because they were for the working class and unions. However, those days are long gone. The working class is now severely split politically, with more and more of them now voting Republican. With globalism and international trade agreements, the unions have been drastically weakened and those jobs don't really cut it anymore. Many people long for the past, when jobs were plentiful and things made sense. When everyone was proud to be an American. The majority of the Democratic Party has embraced corporatism and globalism, while forgetting about the working class in favor of identity movements and the like. Economically, it seems like they've embraced some of the ideas of Reagan. Democrats have become the status quo (the 'man' so to speak), supported by MSM and big business. And while there is still a minority of the Democrats who don't subscribe to those politics, they don't have any power to stop that trend. The Republican Party is inheriting these people, not because they themselves are conservatives, but because it's the only viable alternative to Democrats. This is not to say that the Republican Party is really any better, but they are embracing more populism and working class issues with the likes of Trump. I think there is a major shift occurring within both parties.

Loved it!

How was it?

The left hates seeing their racist “white privilege” narrative dismantled. According to their worldview, only black people can experience hardship.

@@Frederick0220 it was panned because the story was written badly and the main character is a self-absorbed, unlikeable dweeb who excels in blaming his mother and his circumstances for his problems and not helping her when he's later able to and she's still struggling. He has a chip on his shoulder, but he really needs to get over it already, he "made it" and still wants to whine about how hard it was for him to get there.

@@jiminy_cricket777 So, why does the public love it? Curious about your answer

@@Frank_Cohen read Christopher Lasch's book, The Culture of Narcissism, and you'll have your answer. Both to why some people apparently loved it and others hated it.

@@jiminy_cricket777 Homework? Gee, thanks 😉

He "seemed" like

I can relate to that .

Very well articulated

@@diannebuckhout9298 thank you!

Yes this is a problem with many urban-rural divides around the world. Electric cooperatives, postal service, public banks, and other investments in communities have been some of the most important ways quality of life improves in rural areas (well, from what I have read about. I'm sure there are other things). The market leads investors to ignore rural areas with lower population, so public investment in all parts of a country are important. I think this kind of thing is ignored with the current economic ideology of leaders.

I like this man. Wild tangent to your comment, however, Ive always wondered if given the carbon content of turds, enough time and pressure, whether or not they could one day be polished into diamonds. lol

Or break you. Not everyone comes out of a abusive upbringing intact !

Agree...can go either way....but characters stick out from the general crowd

I did. I was lucky.

I'm sad that this is true for so many. But I hope so much that his honesty and bravery help others know that we don't have to be stuck in bad cycles we learned as kids. Lindsey is also such an impressive lady. What I know of her story is more like mine, which is do the opposite of what hurt you, but keep any and all good things learned. She's an awesome lady, and what a great, loving sister!

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ji H. Listening to the audio book. Wondered about pictures. Now to find the book!

West Virginia (not anymore) and yep, it’s overlooked. Abuse and poverty.

Jen P. Mitts he is helping himself essentially. i am reading his book, and I have the opinion he is a sell-out

resireg Dang. Really?

yes, he talks about the importance of "hilbilly values" such as honor, extended family, informality, while in his own life he lives in San Francisco, and is part of the coastal Elite. His message is essentially that if you are from Appalachia, you can only succeed by abandoning your lifestyle, your traditions and your accent, and moving to the urban liberal world.

Jen P. Mitts despite moving to Ohio, he is kind of avoiding his easter Kentucky roots

resireg But isn't Eastern Kentucky a pretty tough place to thrive and have a happy life?