Who gets to be an 80s kid?

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Or any decade really.
I was born in the mid 70s but don't feel any nostalgia for that decade even though I do have memories from then.
I was age 5-15 in the 80s and feel that I am truly an 80s kid. I have so much love for the music, the fads, the TV, the 'fashion' 😆
So when someone born in say, 1986 describes themselves as a child of the 80s I think they can't be. The things they really liked and got involved in would be from the 90s.
So, do I have a point or is my midlife crisis worse than I thought?! How much of a decade do you think you ought to have experienced before you can claim it as your own? I think at least 7 or 8 years.
And yes, I'm aware that no one 'owns' a decade. This is sort of light-hearted.

I was born the beginning of 1980.
I definitely feel I own the 80s but actually know more about and feel I own the 90s too.

I was born in 71, but all my memories are of the 80s really. Most music, tv, films, clothes.

I don’t listen fondly to glam rock. My first pop star crush was Martin Fry from ABC. My friend is a year older and she loved Gary Glitter, and David Essex etc, so a years difference and she probably would consider herself a child of the 70s

I was born 1985, I definitely feel more of a 90s kid.

I was born in ‘84 and consider myself a ‘90’s kid!

I was born in1986 I don't remember Nything from the 80s but would describe myself (if I had to) as a 90s kid as it was when I was a child.

I was born in 1986 but I absolutely love anything 80s!the music and punk fashions especially.however I do remember more of the 90s so I would say 80s baby,90s child lol

Born 85 and completely relate to the 90s

1981 here. I feel I had an 80's childhood, so identify with all the kids 80's stuff - toys, fads and TV etc, and was a teen in the 90's, so the 90's more relevant for music and fashion than the 80's, as that's when I was really choosing and buying my own stuff independently and creating my 'style'.

I consider myself an 80's kid although I was born in the early 70's. I think it's because by the time I was old enough to really get into music and have fun with my friends, it was the 80's. I don't remember anything much about 70's music or fashion, but maybe I have a crap memory. Just about my only 70's memory is of having a painfully huge crush on John Travolta in Grease - I must have only been about five but I loved him so much I would look at his picture and cry 😍

I'll give you the 80s Spied 😆 You would have definitely experienced them. You were born very neatly in fact - 80s childhood and then preteen/teen throughout the 90s. I started clubbing at 16 in the 90s, then went to uni and started proper work. I feel the 90s belong to me too but I prefer the 80s as I had no responsibilities and for every good 90s memory I usually have a cringey one too!
UnitedRoad that's unusual that you don't really connect with the 70s as you were there for almost all of it but I can see how you were the right age to enjoy the 80s fully. My cousin is a couple of years older than you and she went to see bands and wore the proper clothes. Even had a Princess Di hairstyle.

I was born in '74, I'm definitely a child of the 80's.

Born in 68 so feel I am a kid of 70s and a teen of 80s

I was born in the nineties, don’t really remember them though.

I was born in 1980 so feel I’m an 80’s child. However, I’m very much a 90’s teenager and have many happy (and angsty) memories from that time. I feel a great deal of nostalgia for both decades though

Wow, cross posted with lots of you 😄
I am so thrilled. You are all saying what I feel.

So when someone born in say, 1986 describes themselves as a child of the 80s I think they can't be. The things they really liked and got involved in would be from the 90s.

I was born in 86 so should have love for all things 90’s but i don’t. The 80’s is where’s my heart lives

I do think it’s a lot to do with all the £1 videos I rented with my sister from the local newsagent. They were all 80’s movies. And my mum has us watching lots of 80’s stuff too.

1981. My memories of then are there but they're much more hazy than those of the 1990's which are crystal clear still.

Born mid 70's and my memries of the 90's are very hazy :) God I loved those days.

I was born in January 1972, was 8 in 1980 and 18 in 1990. Surely that’s very definition of an 80s kid, I grew up through the 80s and became a legal adult when the decade ended.

Late 70s here. Definitely a child of the 80s.

My personal rule for claiming you are a kid of the decade you were born in is a cut off point of the year 'xxx2', possibly 'xxx3' at a push, if you were born very early in the year and have a lot of memories from when you were young. I was born in 1986 and would never claim to be a 80's kid, I was a 90's kid! I have seen comments online left by people that say they are 90's kids that were born in 1998 and yet can't remember the Millennium!

I'm a child of the 80s (born 1980) but I don't remember much about that decade really. The 90s are where all my fond memories of growing up are based.

I was born in ‘84 and can’t remember the Millenium... too much Archers and lemonade

I was born in 73, and am a definite child of the 80s. It was the time that I began to listen to the music, films, look at the fashion(Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan), TV shows, everything. I don't relate to the 70s I was too young, my parents weren't into 70s music either.

Born 67 I definitely do not feel like a child of the 60s! It's 80s all the way. My memories were The Smiths, Human League, Frankie - oh the list goes on!