10/11/07 11:17 - ID#41605

Generation X+1?

I was born in 1979, which technically is the last year of Generation X. Or, sometimes, I'm under the 'MTV Generation' classification or even say I'm one of the earliest in Generation Y. I don't feel like I belong to any of those. My cohort is adrift in time and popular conception.

This is surely a troubling issue, does anyone know any demographically inclined therapists who could help me navigate through this distress?

james writes at 08:26:26 10/12/07 - Comment #26194: I told the same thing to my parole officer Lauren!

I mean, I have murdered but that doesn't make me a murderer.

jim writes at 11:26:51 10/12/07 - Comment #26170: Interesting that you'd categorize me as one who needs externally imposed categories, Lauren, thus giving me exactly what I desire.

lauren writes at 11:21:00 10/12/07 - Comment #26168: Identities are fluid and unstable my friend. Do we ever fit neatly into any of these fairly arbitrary categories? And what good does it do us if we do?

museumchick writes at 10:57:54 10/12/07 - Comment #26162: I was born in 1982- I never really felt like I belonged to a generation. I'm old enough to remember the Berlin Wall coming down, but I don't think I'm really in the Gen X generation mindset.

jim writes at 10:48:21 10/12/07 - Comment #26161: My parents were baby boomers who had us later on, around the time the very earliest of Gen X were starting to have kids.

I remember reading articles about all the 20-somethings who were slackers in Gen X when I was still a Sophomore in high school - definitely felt like they were talking about someone else. And I totally missed out on caring about Nirvana or any other typical cultural keystones from that generation.

It's ironic that the 'Slacker Generation' has somehow managed to create so many new businesses and to be so economically focused. For all that they were supposed to be the end of civilization and a disgrace, they sure have turned out to be Good Little Citizens.

The Baby Boomers scared their parents with Rock and Roll, and the Slackers scared their parents with computer games. But it turns out you can get a lot more done with a mouse or joystick then you can with a joint and an LP.

vincent writes at 12:55:20 10/12/07 - Comment #26153: The whole late 70's is a blur when you're figuring that out in some aspects. To be honest the year 1980 only comes from the explosion of the # of births pertaining to the "echo boom" of baby boomers having kids late in life.

I figure the people born in the mid to late 70's were luck to see cool shit and also watch things end. The thing that keeps "us" form being relevant is that the mid 1970's were the period of the least amount of births in the last 50 years.

I'm just lucky to kinda get away with making myself younger than I am. To be honest I think that although fundamentally people my real age are more interesting, insightful and enlightened at the same time for the most part collectively we have come up short in the grand scheme of things.

In some crazy ways I wish I was 21 again today. The challenges with what is going on in the world and the resources that are available make it very exciting. So in some ways I am envious while at the opposite end I do shake my head at times. For example every thinks they're hot daddy's little girl from Clarance or the O.P. thinking that they're a Vally Girl CelebuTARD speaking in that high pitched squeal sqeek.....ect...../RANT

tinypliny writes at 12:36:52 10/12/07 - Comment #26152: Blimey What a tongue twister for those born in 2000. The Z generation.

drew writes at 12:31:45 10/12/07 - Comment #26151: I was born in 1978, I feel your pain. I identify with X a lot more than Y, but sometimes people don't consider me an X by year of birth.

tinypliny writes at 12:27:08 10/12/07 - Comment #26148: I am not a demographically inclined therapist (and I am not sure there is a genuine one around a 200 mile radius). However, I have a way through the distress. It has worked for me all the time.

I feel like I don't belong to any generation at all and I am quite happy with it. I don't want to belong. I am very glad to have the mental liberty to skippety-hop from generation to generation. The generational switch is within easy reach. Don't deny and dissove your self.

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