To ask when/if you realised you were the out of touch older generation

[isitwhatitis]

This year more than any I've realised just how out of touch I am with changes to society, before I was part of it but now the younger generations are changing and I'm the out of touch older generation, it's a weird feeling.

Not knowing, or caring enough to google who the hell this Cardi B is.

Always making sure I take a coat out with me.

Taking a keen interest in tupperware.

Looking forward to staying in on the weekend and catching up on Corrie.

I am 37

Love Island.
People who claim to be ‘non binary’.
All teenage girls being able to do professional-level makeup.
People being famous for making YouTube videos.

A few years ago, when I realised there were more things that i could relate to in "Good Housekeeping" than in "Glamour" and "Cosmopolitan".

Young people don’t trump older people. Who runs the world? Who owns the big corporations? Generally people over 50 or even 60. Who owns the TV and social media - even Mark Zuckerburg is 35.
You may be out of touch with teenagers and what they are into but that doesn’t mean you are out of touch with society, just one part of it. He/she who owns the purse rules the world. And that ain’t my kids.

When I saw 90s clothes sold as vintage! That was bloody depressing.

When DD looked at my phone and said my Instagram was entirely pictures of rescue cats (true) as though that wasn’t what it was designed for.
When every morning I take three supplements for specific problems that I used to imagine would never affect me. (By the way, magnesium stops ankles swelling in the heat. Who knew? Worse, who knew before the age of 40 that ankles swell in the heat).
When DH said the cat had ”pied” DD and I literally had no idea what he meant.

And eyebrows. DD and I have agreed to differ on whether having two slugs drawn on her face enhances her considerable natural beauty.

alsohuman When doctors suddenly became 12 and start asking you if you still have periods. When the doctor has been alive for less time than you have had the autoimmune disease they are seeing you for. Grrr.

When I gave up listening to Radio 1 around the end of the ‘Britpop’ era in the late 90s.

Vintage clothes! I remember my mother describing her glorious 50’s and 60’s clothes and bemoaning the fact that she had not kept them. Now I do the same about 70’s, 80’s and 90’s clothes.

When I opened my mouth and my parents words came out. “That’s not music, that’s just noise” said by my dad sometime around 1983 during an episode of ToTP, and by me any time radio 1 is on now. Tut tutting about the quality of clothes - cheap fabric, poor cuts, bad finishing, in clothes from fashion shops (Top Shop and Dotty P in my day) and “you wouldn’t get this in Markses”. Well maybe you’d have to substitute Seasalt for M&S but you get the gist.

For me it's not knowing or caring about 'you tubers' or 'influencers' - I think it's all vacuous shite

Hear hear! Actually I just do not get the appeal of most of social media. I started a Facebook account but have very little interest in it so hardly ever use it. Looked at Twitter and just thought "Why?" Haven't got any enthusiasm for investigating Instagram or Snapchat or any of all that. Just can't get why some people don't seem to live their lives in private anymore, it's as if it doesn't count and didn't happen unless a photograph of it is posted somewhere.

Also I remember when there was just one controller for the TV that changed channel and volume. Now I seem to need three - one for the TV, one for the FreeView box and one for the sound system. Then if we watch a DVD the TV goes in a different mode and I need yet another controller. I get exasperated at times and DD just kindly takes them from me and asks me what I want.

When we voted Brexit and America voted Trump.

Oh but hang on! Wasn't it 74% of 18-24 year olds voted to Remain?

You can program your tv remote to change your sky or vice versa

I tell you what though, when I went to uni in 1999 a bright eyed bushy tailed member of the SWP I thought I’d find tons of like minded types and be out campaigning each and every weekend.

Was I fuck. Not even the Iraq war seemed to make a dent in the consciousness of where I was.

Politically savvy, smart, switched on teens and youngsters* make me hopeful for the future. It’s just a pity the world is going to such shit to bring them to our attention.

(* yes I said youngsters thus making me 85 instantly).

When my health visitor told me my youngest needed vitamin drops because he was breastfed and I asked her why he needed them when my eldest (born 8 years earlier) didn't. I suddenly thought of when my eldest was born and my mum/mil were giving me outdated parenting advice and realised I was turning into one of those people who dismissed new advice.

When I went shopping for casual clothes and thought I’d accidentally gone into a fancy dress shop, but no, it was just the new fashions on display in top shop!

HCPs ask me if I'm DD's mum, I'm fairly sure they didn't do that when I had DSs in my 20s and 30s

I have no idea what an influencer is and does. And the first time I have even seen the word is on here.
Even after googling some of these so called influencers I still can’t see what is the point of them.
Just looks like random videos of misbehaving kids and pets, wishywashy husbands, lots of makeup and weird eyebrows. So what exactly are they supposed to influence?

I hate the music and clothes that's popular nowadays and constantly think "in my day it was better than this!"

I'm only 26!

I've always felt like I'm out of touch, apart from about five minutes of my life at university when I felt like I might be starting to understand all this fashn/music/clubs thing. Now the only difference between my attitude at 12 and me now is that I'm supposed to be an old fogey.

Fashion even (stupid touch screen; apparently the older you are the less responsive touch screens are to your skin. )

I've never altered my photos or used a filter. I can't get to grips with Snapchat or Instagram. I think profile pictures with dog ears and a nose stuck on them, or angel wings, look bloody stupid.

I caught some of the film 'Mermaids'recently and definitely feel like Cher now (the crazy mum). Back in the 90s I was absolutely Winona. I'm 39.

Also I wear comfortable knickers now! Proper cotton. I do have a drawer full of gorgeous sets, but if I can get away with it I go for practical.

Ah yes! I binned all my lacy Topshop knickers and now just have those 5-packs of bikini briefs from M&S.