codenamecesare:

ninemoons42:

gokuma:

Let me tell you, Internet, how difficult it is to do some fucking research…

That comment EXACTLY. How many times do I have to say that I absolutely wanted to kick the living shit out of Erik when he made that sarcastic comment about hardship and the Westchester mansion? He had no fucking idea what he was talking about. Charles Xavier did not have any nice idea of childhood by any possible definition of “nice”. Read the fucking manual.

Charles is extremely privileged. Privilege doesn’t automatically give privileged people an awesome life, and that erroneous idea is part of what makes people not realize that they have privilege. Everyone reading Tumblr has the privileges of leisure time and computer access, but most of us still have problems.

Even aside from Charles’s comics canon background of abuse, try replacing “telepath” with some other invisible identity that sets people apart… in the case of canon Charles, an identity that people feel they have to hide for their own safety. In XMFC, adult Charles can use his powers to keep himself and Raven safe, but we meet bb!Charles carrying a baseball bat to protect himself when he goes to find Raven in the kitchen, so for at least part of his life his telepathy didn’t protect him. (And what does it say about Charles’s childhood that he thinks he hears a burglar and he doesn’t alert any adults?)

So, yes, I think Charles could have had difficulties. None of which changes his immense privilege. Privilege means having unmerited advantages, not zero problems.