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Date Posted: 00:14:16 07/09/25 Wed
Author: TurtleBoy
Subject: Most the time I'm a millenial.
In reply to: JeffsFort 's message, "IMAGINE Magazine Question for 7/15" on 16:51:00 06/23/25 Mon

For some reason, some people have different timelines which throws me into Gen X, but I think those are the people that were being cry babies about being teased for being a millennial, which doesn't stand up to the Gen X stereotypes, so they're also millennials. Yep. It's settled. Millennial.

My mum was a helicopter parent. As a kid I always had to play in the yard, couldn't got to the park without adult supervision most of the time, and the times I was allowed to go to the park with friends I had to check in every hour, even when I KNOW my mother came to check on me at least twice while she thought I wasn't looking. My dad, on the other hand, wasn't too concerned with anything. Talk about polar opposites.

My generation in general has had one of the most interesting shifts, though, and I'm quite happy with that. We got to see computers make their way into every home and the Internet being set loose. We got to experience real online freedom and like 95% of us automatically adopted a nick name instead of using our real names because we knew it was smarter, and having a name no one else knew meant we were free agents of the WWW! As Mike mentioned, we also got to see the turn of the millennium, get excited over the Y2K bug, AND there was a complete clusterfuck of new music genres erupting all over the place. It was pretty exciting to see all the emos and punks and skaters and bubblegum jocks and metal heads and baggy-pant-morons all trying to figure out where they belong in the most ridiculously wonderful ways. High school's always been a confusing time where kids are trying to establish their own identity, but the late 90s and early 00s had every other generation beat in WTF is everyone doing?! It was every beautiful mayhem.

HOWEVER! If I really had to choose a generation to have lived in, I'd have picked he boomers. While I wouldn't have the Internet as a kid and young adult, I'd have more freedom to explore the world without so much restraint. I've always wished I could have played outside all day long without being watched all the time, and I've always just wanted to feel free. Even today I feel like I'm trapped, which isn't necessarily true. I'm an adult. I can do whatever, but very likely because of my upbringing (and ten thousand other factors along the way) I don't often venture too far from home.

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