Honestly, you cant expect everyone to be held to the same expectations as you. Not all people are born with the same skills, intelligence level, etc & not everyone has the same parents or environment. If that's something you got to learn at a young age, thats a blessing.
Perhaps circumstances aided me, however, the thing that was instrumental was that I recognized the need to be frugal from an early age and that I would need money when I was older. My parents told me that it was smart, but it was my own will that carried me, not the power that their words held because when I was a kid, I was the disobedient one. In fact, it was my parents who threw me out and left me to fend to myself.
I get it that some people aren't as gifted, and perhaps not smart, but I beg to differ when people say it's impossible, because as long as long as you have the willpower to drive yourself, you
can accomplish anything. Sure, it may be a bitter fight, but you can deal the greatest blow to those who doubted your worth by coming out successful. I believe that you can, jitank.