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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 92 points 4 months ago

I was born in 81, so I get lumped in as a millennial AND a gen-Xer AND an 80s kid AND a 90s kid... Anyone I try to have a discussion with assumes I'm wrong because I'm either too young or too old to understand. People older than me think I'm a most leftist bleeding heart liberal that has ever existed, but people younger than me think I'm a hard line conservative half the time. Quite frankly it's exhausting.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 70 points 4 months ago

Have you tried being born in a different year?

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

My plan is to claim that I'm "about 38" for the next decade or so...

[-] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you wanna get real pedantic about it, millennials are considered to be FROM 1981 to 1996. I was born a few years after you, and I get called an Elder Millennial. Which always makes me imagine those Teletubbie Elders and they're bad ass.

ETA: I don't think you can ever escape the "you're too young to understand" crowd of GenX haters. I caught that shade too, which is extremely boring and rude lol

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Every night but apparently wishes don't actually work no matter how many innocents you sacrifice or how perfect your binding circle.

[-] Brocon@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Born in 80. Share the feeling. We are called xennials. And it's unnerving... sometimes.

[-] zod000@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Don't be unnerved by our superior life experience!

[-] Brocon@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Superior... Well. I don't miss the smell of smoke everywhere. But I do miss the slower news cycle. And not having to grow up with any media that try's to tell me everybody is everybody's enemy.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

How about the part where only we so accurately can gauge how shitty the internet has gotten in the last 15 years. I don't consider superior life experiences a benefit when they only serve to remind us what was lost and can never be reclaimed.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Fucking same. But hey, at least for a few more months, I'm 42, so I got that going for me.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You probably started remembering stuff in '84 and were 9 in '90, so you qualify as both an 80s and 90s kid.

[-] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Sounds like you're somewhere around the center in a polarised society

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Honestly I'd argue it was the sweetest spot to live in, we came home with the street lights and didn't have to go through metal detectors at school.

The only problem is literally no one younger or older than us cares that we struggled with the boomers for longer than anyone. Millennials call me boomer, boomers call me millennial. Fuck all of you I remember what the world was like before popups.

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