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I mistyped, I was trying to say "experience this change."

But at any rate, you're picking an argument with the wrong person. I'm not defending the definition, I'm explaining what the definition is. I don't have a strong stance on this either way, I'm just clarifying why in popular culture the lines are drawn the way they are.

If you feel the lines should be drawn differently based on your experience I have no issue with that at all. It just isn't the way it's commonly defined. I don't make the rules

Nice try. That doesn't work that way.

Some GenX literally went from rotary phones and rabbit ears to home internet during their formative years. I know, because I was there. I am describing the years between grade school and late high school for me. My formative years.

> Millennials were the first to experience change while growing up rather than as adults.

Now you’re just being silly.

I honestly think generations should be 5 year sub generations to categorize, I'm no expert but it could probably improve algorithms and stuff

Shit - I’ll be 59 in 2025. I’ll be verging on elderly.

Crap,

If you can't retire and receive full benefits, then you are not "elderly" so 60 definitely isn't! It's age 65. OP is horribly wrong on this Showerthought.

As someone who was born on the edge of the millennial/GenZ

I noticed in highschool, my year was very similar to the ones above mine, as well as the one directly following, but the ones after that just seemed so culturally different

I like the term Xennials.

that's really something zoomers are known for: not wanting to do things

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It depends on the year for GenX, that's why there's Xennial (1977-83/85). My siblings and I (2 Xers and a Mil) grew up with rabbit ears, then cable, by high school, some households had internet or we used it at the library.
In the span of my high school years, I looked up info in an encyclopedia and printed my papers on Dot Matrix paper from a Word Processor to asking Jeeves, and laser printing from a computer by senior year. It was a weird moment in time because I had to fill out my college apps and FAFSA by hand but check out colleges websites for information. Many baby GenXers went through this.

I start receiving social security in 2025. I will be 62. I don't 'feel' elderly. I don't relate to Boomers, so consider myself Gen X even though born in '63. - They say 'elderly' is 65+, to me it is closer to 70. People are aging differently now than decades ago...

Hell, I'm only a couple years younger than my sisters and I sure don't have much in common with them.... except maybe being "elderly". pshaw

You get to retire? Can you tell us what that’s like?

Well i identify as gen x, and your bigotry towards my identity is appalling, for shame, for shame

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It doesn't get named based on your personal experience. It's a generic age range. It doesn't need to be anything else. What you stereotype a millennial as (being younger than you and more annoying) isn't part of what a generational grouping is. It's your own preconceived notions and ageist opinions.

I hate to break it to you, but you're inarguably not Gen X. You're Gen Y, now called millennials. It doesn't mean you have to behave the way a stereotypical millennial would, but it's irrefutable that you fall into that generational bracket.

You don't "turn into" an elderly person. It's not like you're young and spry one day and then elderly when the clock strikes midnight as you turn 60. If we're talking senior citizen, that's legally defined as 65. If we're talking elderly, that's more an issue of physicality on an individual basis. Some people are old and decrepit at 55, some are still in pretty healthy, great shape at 75. It's different for everyone.

gen z ends in 2009 everyone after that is ipad kids as evidenced by the 6th graders last year (born late 09-10), apparently one for pregnant this year and they were insanely chaotic last year

I literally just said during their formative years. Older generations didn't go from rabbit ears to the internet (at least at-home internet for regular use) during their childhood and teenage years. Millennials were the first to experience change while growing up rather than as adults.

I can relate more with millenials, i was born 2001.

So ill say youre right.