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 in 1985 and I definitely consider myself an 80s child. I love everything 80s. Plus I was brought up in a very small Highland village so things didn't progress so fast there 😂

I agree with pp. I was born in 86 and would definitely say i was a 90s kid. Saw in the millennium with an archers and lemonade at a street party with my family.

‘84 and a 90s kid

Totally agree. I was born in 1982, I’m a child of the 90s.

It irrationally annoys me when folk born in 1999 say they’re children of the 90s

Born 68, feel like the 90's was my era but 70's was childhood as it was and 80's teens but the 90's is where my best memories are.

Born in 71 and definitely a child of the 80's. Only really remember the Queens silver jubilee from the 70's.

1979 so 80's child but 90's teenager.

IamH that's interesting about the music your parents listened to when you were young. Mine seemed to play either 60s stuff or current 80s stuff (Lionel Richie and Chas & Dave stand out 😆). The 70s should have been their equivalent 'young professional' era but they weren't young professionals. They married young and had kids instead so maybe that's why the 70s hasn't stood out for me because they were preoccupied with us and not involved in fashion, music, films so much.
I wonder if my children will feel that they are whatever you call this decade? They will be 7 and 10 next year so maybe they will be 20's kids instead.
In the 90s I remember there was a massive 1960's revival. Remember black and white dresses and blouses? It all seemed so ancient to me but that's exactly the same gap between now and the 90s 😲

I was born in 84 and like PP's would definitely consider myself a child of the 90s

I was born in 79 and feel like a mixture of 80s and early 90s kid. I had a stereotypical 80s childhood with all the toys and clothes that went with it!

Yep mine played 60s or John denver. My mum used to sit and watch Top of the Pops with us, have vivid memories of her dancing to music we liked. My dad still only listens to 60s and John denver, he's never moved on.
Although in saying that, my brain seems to have forgotten a lot of songs that were around when my children were little, maybe it's baby brain. I'm into most of the music that my kids are into now, well apart from my eldest, rap and sweary stuff not my thing.

Another born in 81 so 80s childhood (remember winning small records at school disco, doing the ghostbusters walk, we had now 6 on cassette, got a snail keeper for Christmas and really wanted either the shoes with a key in the sole or the ones where the ankle strap slid back so you had ‘party shoes’) but my goodness I LOVED the 90s- I was reminiscing the other day about covering my lever arch folder with pictures/postcards/sweet wrappers and then covering it in sticky back plastic!

Born in 1966. A child of the 70s but a teenager of the 80s. Love music from both decades but the 80s were the golden years.

This is why the old skool ‘class of XXXX’ makes more sense.

I was born in 68. I'm a child of the 70s. My partner was born n 1960. He's a child of the 60s.

80s is my decade, I was aged 11-21. Child of the 70s, but secondary school, college, first job, coming of age all 80s.

I was born late 68. I OWNED the 80’s lock stock and barrel.

OP I was just thinking about this today. How I don;t really feel the 80s is my decade, even though I was a teen then and went to uni in the 80s. But it was the 70s (aged 5-15, just like you say) that I identify as my decade. I still adore Seventies fashion - midi and maxi skirts, velvet jackets etc and glam rock. I think we are the children of the decade in which we are at school.

Was at school during the seventies until early eighties and feel an eighties kid o think

I was born very late 60s (moon baby!), and was a small child in the 70s. My senior school years and late teens were 80s, so my childhood musical and fashion memories are 80s. While I don't think of 90s music with much fondness compared to the 80s, it was an amazing decade for me when it comes to life experiences (three years abroad, three years at uni and three years at the start of a career as cabin crew in the days when it was still amazing and we regularly had weeks in the Caribbean etc.

I'd very much say I was an 80s chick though!

Born in 1984 but can hardly remember any of the 80s so I consider myself a 90s kid and a 00s teen.

milliefiori I agree that you most belong to the decade you were in school. I was 15-25 in the 90s and whilst I was massively into Britpop and Tarantinoesque films for example, I don't hold as much affection for them as I do for stuff from the 80s. There are loads of TOTP '88 on catch up and I have loved them all. Feeder were on BBC 1 breakfast today and I just thought meh.
It's interesting how some of us value school days more and others the young adult years.

74 here too - def child of 80's

Born early 80s... was an adult and at university by the millennium. I have an older sibling and a long memory. I was in school by the mid-80s. Definitely an 80s childhood.

Sibling went to uni early 90s and I lost their influence on music. I didn't really feel that engaged with the zeitgeist until the later part of my teens, although tapped into the Tammy Girl end of grungy clothing in my earlier teens

I was born in 1980 and would regard myself more as a 90's child as that was my teens