diff --git a/requests/adapters.py b/requests/adapters.py
index f13ae4e5e2..78e3bb6ecf 100644
--- a/requests/adapters.py
+++ b/requests/adapters.py
@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ def init_poolmanager(
             num_pools=connections,
             maxsize=maxsize,
             block=block,
-            strict=True,
             **pool_kwargs,
         )