Being on the cusp between two supposed “generations.”

I am an "X-ennial" ('81) - Definitely Gen X. Hours on a bike, till the street lights came on. Delivering girl scout cookies to stranger's doors with zero parental supervision. Hours alone at the skating rink (Leo's). Perilous moments when mom & dad said "walk it off".

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Rode bikes all over until the streetlights came on, even at 7 or 8. Let myself in after school because both my parents worked. I came of age in the 80’s with Ronald Reagan, new wave, and no cell phones. Like other Gen X’ers, I was probably a shitty parent, and became overprotective of my kids. I don’t worship money, although I like having it.

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I fully qualify as a Boomer by age born in ‘63. All of the above is what you have in common with me so your kids are right.

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I am an "X-ennial" ('81) - Definitely Gen X. Hours on a bike, till the street lights came on. Delivering girl scout cookies to stranger's doors with zero parental supervision. Hours alone at the skating rink (Leo's). Perilous moments when mom & dad said "walk it off".

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I consider myself an X-ennial and I was born in ‘87. I grew up without internet until I was in 5th grade so I remember time before/without internet.

I didn’t have a cell phone until 2000 and my first car didn’t have a CD player. Walk it off was a very common response.

I took a class one time where a professor stated that throughout history, each culture or country had different generations based on the locality. He then stated that because of the internet and social media in particular that generations are becoming more uniform in both timing and in characteristics. It’s pretty interesting.

I was born in 79. We went through high school and learned to socialize without internet, social media, and texting etc. In other words face to face or by talking on the phone. We are the last of those people. We were already young adults at the boom of the internet which changed the world so we got both sides of a lot of stuff such as learning to write and mail a check to pay a bill, then using a debit card/ and or paying on line a couple years later. Still a lot of boomers to this day mail paper checks to pay a small utility bill etc. It boggles my mind. Today a lot of younger folks don't know how to write a check to mail a bill at all.

We are by far the best well rounded generation from about years 1977-83 b/c as young adults we've been part of a lot of transition of technology and socialogy ; old enough to have some old school in us to be much culturally more experienced than our kids, but young enough we are much more advanced than our parents

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We (society) is so mired in the generational gaps. It really isn't that. A 15 year old in any generation isn't so different from a 15 year old from a prior generation. The external experiances may be vastly different (war, technology, famine) but internally, most of us experienced the same hope, love & heartache as those before us.

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I mean yeah 15 year olds are all pretty similar but a Boomer was different than an X who was different than a Gen Z.

However, the boomer generation is a different time frame for those in Germany, Japan, and the US. The professors points is that because of the inter connectedness of the internet and social media, the Gen Alpha in the US is roughly the same timeline as the Gen Alpha in China and in Nigeria.

Xennial ('77) and definitely Gen X in spirit. I don't understand Millenials.

Boomer is not a term for a generation. It's a term for out of touch old people