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Arab Twitter users have been busy sharing their experience growing up in an Arab family as #GrowingUpArab trended in Egypt, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates Wednesday morning.

Some people shared the usual clichés:

#GrowingUpArab your parents get sohappy if you get high grades because it means they have something to brag about in front of their friends
— سوس? (@Liquoriceeee) July 15, 2015

#growinguparab when you're 5 years old and your parents are showing you which medical school you're going to at 18
— Abu Ali (@Never4get1948) July 15, 2015

#growinguparab
It turns into WW3 when it's time to pay the bill at restaurants
— Rezane (@Rezanereinaa) July 15, 2015

If the call was international, yelling was a necessity
Baba wallah they can hear you just fine?#GrowingUpArab pic.twitter.com/9rqBoeVtAu
— Zainab (@ZainabMera) July 15, 2015

Others wanted to educate us:

#GrowingUpArab If you never figured it out, Inshallah means no.
— Han (@HRSBoom) July 15, 2015

#GrowingUpArab drinking shay cures everything.
— Maisy (@ArcticMaisy) July 15, 2015

But we also realized how it's still tough being a girl in some Arab families:

#GrowingUpArab Me & my sisters always clean while my brothers play Xbox
— ? (@queenayerabg) July 15, 2015

Trying to tell your uncle how you want to go to college and get an education but he still insists on getting married #GrowingUpArab
— Wale (@Walaa_hollaa) July 15, 2015

#GrowingUpArab when you really didn't have a name and you were referred to as ibn or bint "your dad's name"
— leena❃ (@leenaxbean) July 15, 2015

Seems like the time for a feminist revolution has come, girls.

Arab Twitterverse shares what it's like #GrowingUpArab

Arabs took to Twitter to tell us what it was like #GrowingUpArab in the Middle East and abroad.

Some people shared the usual clichés:

Others wanted to educate us:

But we also realized how it's still tough being a girl in some Arab families:

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Arab Twitterverse shares what it's like #GrowingUpArab

Arabs took to Twitter to tell us what it was like #GrowingUpArab in the Middle East and abroad.

Some people shared the usual clichés:

Others wanted to educate us:

But we also realized how it's still tough being a girl in some Arab families:

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