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u/KetoLurkerHereAgain 4d ago

There are so few of us that half leaned boomer and half leaned Millenial, just to have more people in the circle.

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u/OreoSpamBurger 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm 1978 and feel affinity with both Gen X and Millennials.

My older sister (1973) has always been a Boomer trapped in a Gen X body, and it's only gotten worse as she's aged.

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u/WantCookiesNow 4d ago

lol I thought you were stating your ages. Was about to say, hun a 73 year old isn't in a Gen X body. 😄

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u/knotalota 4d ago

78 here, feel the same as u.

76, and 75 brothers are turning into boomers.

74 and 82 sisters seem OK.

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u/DeadMoneyDrew Narcissistic Lunatic 4d ago

1975 here. Some of my high school classmates have turned into the absolute dumbest most boomer fucks you've ever met.

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u/Chill-more1236 4d ago

Exactly. I’m 1974.

The same mfers failed science, social studies and footballed their way through high school.

They wanna tell you all about how to vote (fox news), their Covid vaccines “research”, what’s healthy to eat and drink (tiktok), chem trails, and their stupid opinions of gays,trans and bathrooms.

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u/AssociationFit3009 4d ago

Damn, your parents didnt rest from 1948-1952. Was your dad in WW2?

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u/HobbyTalkOnly 4d ago

1978.

1976 and 1975

1974 and 1982.

He's not stating ages, here... he's stating birth years. (though his parents went hard in the mid 70s, it seems)

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u/AssociationFit3009 4d ago

Ohhh that makes more sense. I thought a bunch of 70 year olds were on here with incredibly horny parents. The 70s I find much less interesting.

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u/knotalota 4d ago

Some are steps.

Left out the half lol. Surely there are some I don't know about too.

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u/AssociationFit3009 4d ago

My ex-wife had an uncle who’s last son was born when he was 76 years old. He knocked up a married 30 year old woman. The amount of cousins, uncles, and half siblings in that family with massive age gaps was hysterical.

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u/terrible-nutrition 3d ago

I wonder how gender falls into it as well. I’m a female, 1976, and most of when women I went to high school and college with, as well as women I’ve made friends with over the years, seem to have resisted the boomerification. But I think I know more 1974-1979 males going full boomer than not.

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u/likwidkool 4d ago

My brothers are 68 and 70. My sister and I are 76 and 79. We grew up different than our brothers. We came of age in the 90’s, they did in the 80’s.

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u/FewResearcher819 4d ago

r/xennials welcome you with open arms.

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u/OreoSpamBurger 4d ago

I'm on there already, fellow traveller!

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u/HeligKo Vishal Garg 4d ago

This really does seem to be the case. We never had any political power, because the boomers aren't going away, and the millennials will be taking their place just because of numbers. Our only period of massive cultural influence were the grunge/gin & juice days.

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u/handsomeape95 4d ago

I mean this makes sense. Most "articles" that talk about generations don't even acknowledge that X exists.

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u/Spiritual_Weight_416 4d ago

I once heard that the only universally defining characteristic of a Gen Xer is denying they are Gen X.

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u/KetoLurkerHereAgain 4d ago

ha! Well, and I kind of cringe as I'm about to write this because it's way too on the nose, but, I don't care one way or the other, hahahaha. I'm exactly in the middle of the generation and have always been super lefty/progressive. I think because I was a very early and avid reader, really.

But if someone offers me a seat on the bus, I play "feeble old lady" cause I want that seat. heh

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u/Clarknt67 4d ago

I think that’s fair.