You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.
The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.
The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.
My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.