If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.

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Anonymous wrote:‘61 here. Technically a Boomer, but I don’t feel like either a Boomer or a Gen Xer. Can’t relate to either.

‘61 here and I am a Boomer.

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B. 1970, Challenger wasn't a big deal to me or my classmates. Nor did I care about or know who Kurt Cobain was. The things I remember from that era are Thriller, Motown 25, Purple Rain (album and movie), Madonna, Reagan was president for an eternity, Rocky IV and those dumb Molly Ringwald movies. And Square Pegs.

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Anonymous wrote:‘61 here. Technically a Boomer, but I don’t feel like either a Boomer or a Gen Xer. Can’t relate to either.

x1000 Born in '64.

Another '61 here and I definitely don't feel like a boomer.

I was in grad school when the Challenger exploded - yes it was a big deal, but I don't remember it that well maybe because I didn't have a TV in my room. Kurt Cobain not so much - didn't really know who he was. But when Michael Jackson and Prince died I cried.

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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!

Hate will kill you.

No, I will live long enough to see the last Boomer die so I can piss on their grave.

If you were born in 1964 then you are technically a boomer.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baby%20boomer

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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!

Hate will kill you.

No, I will live long enough to see the last Boomer die so I can piss on their grave.

Why do you have such strong hate for Boomers? I'm an Xer and got sick to death of all their 60's nostalgia back in the 80's, but other than that I have nothing against them.

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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!

Hate will kill you.

No, I will live long enough to see the last Boomer die so I can piss on their grave.

If you were born in 1964 then you are technically a boomer.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baby%20boomer

The whole point that most people are making is that culturally they are more similar to generation X. They don't have memories of having to wear dresses to school, or JFK being shot. And they don't give a shit about The Beetles or Woodstock.

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Anonymous wrote:‘61 here. Technically a Boomer, but I don’t feel like either a Boomer or a Gen Xer. Can’t relate to either.

x1000 Born in '64.

Another '61 here and I definitely don't feel like a boomer.

I was in grad school when the Challenger exploded - yes it was a big deal, but I don't remember it that well maybe because I didn't have a TV in my room. Kurt Cobain not so much - didn't really know who he was. But when Michael Jackson and Prince died I cried.

Oh, I cried when Prince died and I never cry about celebrities. But something about Prince just really hit home for me. Michael Jackson's death would have been a bigger shock if he hadn't been so hellbent on self destruction the last years of his life. By the time he died I felt that we had already lost him. Man had he gotten weird as sh*t.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

I was 13 I think when it happened and was annoyed b/c I was home sick from school that day and it preempted General Hospital. I certainly was not traumatized by it nor was anyone I know.

Odd. I was in 3rd grade and in class watching it when it happened, and I was certainly traumatized by it...

You were young and watching it live on TV. Older teens felt the same way that they would in hearing about a plane crash. We felt bad for the victims and their families of course, but it was not personally distressing.

Maybe you’re more of a boomer.

Um no. I was born in 72.

You were an “older teen” in 1986?

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

I was 13 I think when it happened and was annoyed b/c I was home sick from school that day and it preempted General Hospital. I certainly was not traumatized by it nor was anyone I know.

Odd. I was in 3rd grade and in class watching it when it happened, and I was certainly traumatized by it...

You were young and watching it live on TV. Older teens felt the same way that they would in hearing about a plane crash. We felt bad for the victims and their families of course, but it was not personally distressing.

Maybe you’re more of a boomer.

Um no. I was born in 72.

You were an “older teen” in 1986?

Ok I misspoke. I was a teen and I was older than the 3rd grader I was comparing myself to.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Omg my mom always talks about the assasination! She’s a boomer too!

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I am 62 years old. I do not feel like a boomer and when we socialize with older people, even 4 years older, I feel like we are socializing with my parents' friends. Worlds apart. I cannot even imagine living in an over 55 development.
I have some head work to do. I know.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

More like "Who shot JR?"

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Omg my mom always talks about the assasination! She’s a boomer too!

I remember it, but I was 6. My legs didn't even hit the ground when sitting on a chair. I didn't understand it at the time.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 62 years old. I do not feel like a boomer and when we socialize with older people, even 4 years older, I feel like we are socializing with my parents' friends. Worlds apart. I cannot even imagine living in an over 55 development.
I have some head work to do. I know.

Makes sense to me. You were part of the sex, drugs, and rock and roll generation. People born four years earlier than you were not.