Let's talk about gen X because no other bugger does.

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Hail fellow X'ers.

We are never mentioned. It's always Boomers, Millennials or gen Z.

Why the fuck not?

We definitely exist, we were very cool people.

I have such good memories of my 70's childhood and teenage years in the 80's.

And all the goodness of the late 80s and early 90s.

It did happen didn't it?

Going to university in late ‘80s- you were on your own. You were basically free to live your life, supported by a grant (hopefully). Once weekly phonecalls to your parents.

Late stage Gen Xer here, young teenager at the start of the 90s and I embraced those years! So much fun. I’m so glad to have grown up without social media. Simpler, more innocent times although I had a lot of anxiety around war. Plus ça change!

Meh, GenX here too. Talk about us or don't, who cares. Zero fucks given here.

Careful what you wish for. Once all of the Baby Boomers are gone, they’re going to start hating us……(for reasons I can’t even fathom right now).

As a Geriatric Millennial/ Xennial, you're all far too cool to bother with gen wars. You're the cool older kids, you're the film stars I tried to dress like via Miss Selfridge. You're Kate Moss and Winona Ryder, you're Leo Di Caprio at his floppy haired finest.
Stay chilled.

Oh and my parents had no idea what we got up to. They didn’t want to know.

1976’er here and only today was I daydreaming of the 90s. The music, the drugs, the freedom. I miss it all

Invisible is good, I prefer under the radar. And no I never get bored.
I feel bad for the young generation, they'll never know that sheer unadulterated uninhibited fun. I'm am still stunned I made it through alive mind 😂. No regrets though.

I'll tell you what breaks me heart as an X is that in the very late 80s and early 90s it really felt that we had equality, as women, it felt ok and that we were respected by men.

Could have been the drugs.

And then it never happened.

The internet and porn happened.

And that very brief moment, where I felt equal...

Poof..

Gone

‘Mum just going to the cinema and to stay at Laura’s’ heads out all night clubbing

I'm an older millennial and I was always jealous of the gen Xers. I wanted to dress like Kelly in saved by the bell college years or Winona ryder in reality bites. I didn't get to fully appreciate the music at the time. And the atmosphere of the 90s just seemed different, maybe more optimistic, especially when Labour came into power.

Born 1981 buy def feel more X than millennial. Loved the 90s music, take that posters everywhere, magazines like smash hits, roller blading round the estate as a teen. No Internet at school.

This thread is like one of those shit FB posts about remember when we all played out in the street, blah, blah, blah.

I swear they've changed the parameters of Gen X anyway. When the movie came out, I was the same age as the characters and I definitely wouldn't have thought someone born in 1980 was the same generation.

Babysitting at the age of 10 here, and staying off school to do it too. Can’t imagine this happening today

1965 here, feral childhood, so many drugs and illegal raves in the 90"s, backpacking everywhere with impunity, god it was marvellous

Yeah and now we've got the internet and incels 😓

There needs to be a new category. I'm going to call it the 'X - Men' because I was born in 83 and definitely more Gen X than the later Millennials. Definitely got into the raising teenagers, dealing with elderly parents whilst working full time with a shockingly inadequate pension plan category.

GEN X had the last great childhoods. Playing out on bikes, building dens, iconic tv shows, school summer holidays playing out all day and proper pop music.

GenX here, definitely the best generation while the Boomers and Millenials fight it out. Hoping our Gen Z DC end up more like us since they are so obsessed with the 80s and 90s.

Gen Xer here. The 90s were amazing. We had alcopops and Britpop, today they have TikTok and pronouns. I know who got the better end of that deal.

80s were the best. No social media. No tinder. No wine bars. Dodgy pubs - but they were such fun places to be. The best time to be free and single.

My teen dd is so jealous I lived through the start of acid house & rave. God, what a time to be alive that was. I doubt there will be anything like it again .

The 80s was awesome, apart from AIDS and the threat of dying in a nuclear holocaust.

It felt very optimistic for women- the war was won, there were just skirmishes with older men who we’d be a bit patient with what with them being dinosaurs.

Then the 90s/Y2k happened and laddettes and we went backwards at a rate of knots!

There was no feeling like walking into a club was there?!