It feels no different I can confirm lol. I’m still 25 in my head and I’m sure you’re no different.
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It feels no different I can confirm lol. I’m still 25 in my head and I’m sure you’re no different.
My internal age is also 25... even though I'm celebrating the 35th anniversary of my 21st birthday next month.
One of the things about online message boards, as opposed to too-much-information, "be your authentic self" social media outlets, I like is that I can gradually construct my own (imaginary, obviously) conception of individuals as I read more and more of their posts. To me, it's like the difference between reading a novel and seeing the movie version of a well-loved novel.
...as well as a lot of other personal attributes beyond age.
My son was born in 2003. He's 19 now and in his second year at ASU for a degree in IT.
My daughter was born in 2008. She's 14 and in her first year of high school.
Both could be on this forum if they chose to.
I really hate these labels. So many ridiculous labels and insinuation come with them.
40. I have been on Macrumors more than half of my life, yikes.
1998, right on the border. Most people my gen waste their life on TikTok and Instagram. I decided to swap those for Macrumors 
Yet you brought up those labels up yourself. Age bracketing in lieu of does nothing. Anyone knows what those years mean label wise.
I was induced to reveal them. My apologies. I felt trapped.
A lot of things to worry about. Labels are not any of those issues.
I am a boomer. I know what that means. I was born before 1960 and after WW2. Wow I am hurt. Not.
I grew up being taught that sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me... but keep calling me something I don't like, it could hurt you. So instead of worrying about being "disrespected" we were taught to show respect. Now so many are so worried about labels, especially those that use them the most. Hypocrisy in its most sincere looking form.
Apology, I just realized I included Initials in the Label category. I just want to be clear and "Inclusive."
I am a boomer. I know what that means. I was born before 1960 and after WW2. Wow I am hurt. Not.
I grew up being taught that sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me... but keep calling me something I don't like, it could hurt you. So instead of worrying about being "disrespected" we were taught to show respect. Now so many are so worried about labels, especially those that use them the most. Hypocrisy in its most sincere looking form.
Apology, I just realized I included Initials in the Label category. I just want to be clear and "Inclusive."
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These are things I did not know about in my 20s approaching 30.
These are the things I would tell my teens & 20s self for a better today.
The time I'd have with the
- spouse
- kids
- grand kids
Life expectancy is such that that's the remaining time I would have had left with the kids. Let us peg that to 85 because we took better care of ourselves.
Ideally I would have wanted to have gotten married to my MBA classmate the month we graduated in the year we both would have turned 26.
A year later have 1st born.
If I was smart enough to have done that then I'd have
- ~6 decades with the person who brought out the best version of me
- over half a century with my eldest
- attended my 1st grandchild's marriage ideally at around 26
- hopefully see my 1st great grand child's 1st 4 years
- given my very kind and deserving parents time with their grand kids
Now, if childfree is your jazz then ignore all I have said.
That may be your situation (and if so, you are in a fortunate position), but there are many people who face obstacles, short run and long run, in their daily lives due to how they are labeled by others. For example, a thought experiment related to discussions on MacRumors is to consider the tone and words one would choose when writing a reply to
”I’m a senior citizen. How do I turn off my iPad?”
vs.
”I’m a senior in college. How do I turn off my iPad?”
From the numbers as of this post, I brought my first computer home before most of the of those who've replied to the survey were born.
I'm Gen-X, born in 1970, raised by two Silent Generation parents born in 1935 and 1941. Yes, my mother had me when she was 29 and my sister when she was 31.
That's okay, my wife is five years older and had our son when she was 37 and my daughter when she was 42.
Both our kids are Gen-Z or whatever it is that generation is called now. Zoomers?I am the epitome of the 'latchkey' generation. Both my parents worked and it was often me at home by myself, although I was luckier than most in that my mother was a teacher and I attended the schools she taught at.
Raised by the Silent generation and a father who was a Korean war veteran who served in the Marine Corps I was taught respect and manners. I was also taught 'Children are to be seen and not heard' - a legacy of the Silent Generation. One of the things I've rejected, as well as a good part of what my dad tried to force on me because he was damaged himself. You know it's fairly bad at home when you're willing to volunteer for a war half a world away to get as far from your mother as you possibly can.
But, as a card-carrying member of my generation I'm very comfortable being on my own.
My front door neighbor whose mom worked for IBM bought him a Commodore 64 in the mid 80s. I remember going to their home often and playing lots of video games on their large Sony CRT TV.
This got me to buy this for myself and as a gift to him so his kids could enjoy...
Reciprocally I had a NES so we'd play Super Mario Brothers on my smaller Sony CRT TV.
Your mother was very modern for having her 1st born in her late 20s. My mother had her eldest in her early 30s.
I liked to think I was smarter than the average kid back in the 80s. Given that so many of the kids I went to school with never really got past highschool in their development I had some justification.My front door neighbor whose mom worked for IBM bought him a Commodore 64 in the mid 80s. I remember going to their home often and playing lots of video games on their large Sony CRT TV.
This got me to buy this for myself and as a gift to him so his kids could enjoy...
Reciprocally I had a NES so we'd play Super Mario Brothers on my smaller Sony CRT TV.
But, with certain things it turns out I was pretty much an idiot. When I was 16 I had my driver's license and a car. I let my Diamondback bicycle go to kids down the street - a regret I have to this day. That brand of bike was king in BMX then (along with Redline and Oakley).
I also let my C64 and C128 go in the mid-90s because I had a PC!
What a moron I was, because I had software out the wazoo for that system. Now, to get back what I had it will ultimately run me a few hundred dollars as the value of those systems today is high.
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Modern by accident I suppose.
My dad made it very clear at some point that my coming along ruined the lifestyle he and my mother enjoyed. I was unexpected and he was not thrilled for me to be there - although he labored mightily to make a show of being the model father.
My mother at some point was trying to substitute me for the husband she never had, so there's that issue. Ah well.
My Mother had her youngest, me, in her mid 30's. Something considered dangerous in her day.
When my wife got pregnant with our son she was 37. Her doctor was expecting and advising her to abort because, as she told us, defects at my wife's age then were more than possible. Our son was (and is) fine. So is our daughter, born five years later.
I was told by older people than I am that women who do not get married and have kids before 30 were considered old maids and other unkind concepts.
Of course this varies from temperament to temperament and what sort of societal standard the person came from.
What gets my goat are men who know they cannot support their 1st born then proceeds to have more on a near annual basis then outsource the financing and care for the next 2-3 decades to their eldest children and other people not involved in the bedroom.