Neither. I wasn’t born here.

Anonymous wrote:My husband was born in 1959 and is definitely a Boomer; I was born in 1967 and am definitely Gen X. We had such different high school and college cultures.

I think this is what everyone would expect -- you're both solidly in your demographic

A little of both? I was born in 1964 but am the youngest kid in my family, so a lot of my early cultural influnches came through my oldest siblings, who are definitely Boomers through and through.

My musical tastes are definitely 80s. My knee-jerk feelings about work and finance are more Xish because I was in grad school for so long.

Gen x. I have very little in common with the boomers who were born in the 50s.

July 1964. I do not identify with either.

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.

Exact same here. I have nothing in common with people born in the final days of WW2. Also I had my kids in my 40s, so I am 63 with 2 kids in college. Much more in common with Gen-exers, I guess.

DH born in '64, so an even more weird situation of identity politics. .

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, this thread is messed up and people's memories are warped.

No one was distraught by the Challenger Explosion!

The pill was invented in the mid 1970s, and no one was sexually promiscuous in high school!

The Breakfast Club was not a Gen X movie!

No one knew who Curt Kobain was!

WOW.

I’m born in 1977. Generation X.

I recall watching the challenger space shuttle in third grade with the entire grade. All 3 classes on the one tv that the grade shared. It was a big deal because a teacher was on board. I remember it exploding. I remember kids and teachers crying.

Breakfast club is the quintessential generation x movie although I didn’t see it until I was a freshman in college a decade later. It was nostalgic.

I was not a stoner but I was in late high school when he died. It was a major deal to every stoner that I knew. So much so that I remember that.

Borth control I don’t remember. But I’m a guy. And gay. Birth control was not something on my radar.

Other events I remember:
yitzchak rabin assasination
Rodney king riots
OJ Simpson bronco chase and trial
Berlin Wall
AIDS

I was born in 1981 and have a similar list despite technically being a millennial. My kindergarten class was watching the Challenger when it exploded. My friends and I loved watching Breakfast Club in high school. I remember the AIDS crisis, Clinton impeachment, OJ's white Ford bronco, and the Berlin wall coming down.

I was in college for 9/11.

The weird part about being considered a millennial is that I didn't get my first cell phone until after college. I also used the yellow pages to find a plumber, etc, navigated with actual maps for about a decade until GPS, and had to go to a bank to check my balance. I studied abroad without a cell phone and had to go to Internet cafe to send an email home. My siblings are also millennials and they can't remember life before cell phones, GPS directions, and email. They are used to always calling my parents when they have a question or need help. That is a pretty big gap in life experience.

I'm not a GenXer, but find I really don't fit with most millennials either.

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Thank you to All participants of this thread. I was born in 1964, and I often feel caught between generations—too young to fully relate to older Boomers and somewhat disconnected from younger generations. I see 1964 as a bridge between old traditions and a new awakening—an era that began opening up to greater possibilities, inclusivity, and progress.

Those of us born in 1964 often feel somewhat invisible—too young to have participated in the major cultural and political movements of the ’60s and ’70s, yet not fully embraced as part of the generations that followed. Our first real cultural imprint came with the rise of Rap and Hip Hop, but not all of us identify with that movement.

Now, however, it feels like we are regressing, and many from the Millennial generation and beyond may not have full access to the realities of life before the 1960s. The world was vastly different then—some prospered while others struggled, and deep societal issues shaped everyday life.

If we are going to revisit the past, let’s bring forward the best of it—love, peace, understanding, and a willingness to engage in civilized dialogue, even when we disagree. War, violence, and division have never truly solved our problems.

I was born in 62, but my older parents couldn't bring me onto modernity; ie sex drugs and rock and roll were utterly beyond them (catholic too) all of that left me "Lost in Space ". for those who remember the TV show. A Tweener from my perspective. Still in recovery just past 60yo,Not their fault,but they were classic squares it's been tough to recover from being ungrounded in a sense of cultural belonging. I was a nerd. b4 it was a word.much less cool.

My husband was born in 1959 and is definitely a Boomer; I was born in 1967 and am definitely Gen X. We had such different high school and college cultures.

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.

Me too.

My friends are all within 4 years older or younger than me. Nothing in common with someone born 15 years before or after me.

I would consider them boomers! I was born in 1975 and am a solid gen Xer.

Late Boomers are “Generation Jones”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

Born in 1969, but my sister was born in 1962. She's a total Boomer (and I'm not talking about just her birth date) but insists she's Gen X.

Born in 62. I really feel like neither in the classic sense.