Where you’re from isn’t a reason you can’t. For a lot of people, it’s the reason they did.

Your starting point shapes what is difficult, and it does not decide the ending. Some of what a hard place taught you is genuinely useful: reading a room quickly, making things work with less, knowing how to keep going. None of that makes the difficulty a gift, but what you gained from it is real.

Take stock of what your background taught you that other people had to learn much later. Use it deliberately instead of apologising for where it came from. Let nobody set your ceiling based on where you grew up.