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From the generation that made up ten derogatory terms for every race, gender, sexual preference, culture, nationality, and disability.
Ten? That’s rookie numbers
Boomers think the solution to every problem is religion, “work harder” or alcohol. I knew not to listen to most of them when I was a child. I definitely don’t heed their puerile advice now, especially after watching so many of them get blindsided circa 2008 and again during Covid.
And then they get real snippy when you say “all words are made up.”
I’m an elder millennial, practically an x-er, so its my first time seeing some of these terms.
Some of this stuff, like time blindness, yeah I get that and am medicated for it. Hours just fall off for me. Rejection sensitive dysphoria? Yeah that’s another one I’ve identified in myself and others but didn’t know the term for. I can’t say I have it all the time but sometimes it can feel quite acute.
But justice sensitivity? Like, what does it even mean to be NT? It’s just going along and not giving a shit about anything except what is immediately in front of you? Is this why I feel like I don’t relate to a lot of people?do people just like not change in a conscious way, or even think? Why does the concept of justice even exist if it is only important to a minority of non NT people? I find this incredibly strange. And I say this as someone who probably is justice sensitive, so much so that politics is a big part of my life, but then most of my friends and non-work relations are as well.
“We didn’t use to have mental issues back then. We had a lot of people drinking themselves to death and stuff but I fail to see any relation here.”
My parents (slightly too old to be boomers) heard that my nephew was diagnosed with ADHD and seem to get it - “I suppose they didn’t know about it to diagnose you with back in our day”. My dad’s blatantly undiagnosed Autistic too.
All words are made up, boomer.
“Justice sensitivity” as a symptom of a disorder is fucking wild. Like they really said, “This person doesn’t roll over and take all the systemic abuse. We keep telling them it’s a normal amount of abuse but they don’t accept it. This is their problem.”
I absolutely agree, although I wonder if it’s sorta like “hypervigilance”. Vigilance and keen observation are fantastic!
But there’s also a point where it interferes with your life because it’s freaking exhausting and you just can’t…stop…noticing…every…little…thing…
Maybe that’s what they mean, assuming in good faith they’re not being all 1984 about it…
Although it does feel like the mental health “industry” trend of pushing the onus on the individual who, may simply be reacting normally to a completely chaotic, absurd, often bleak environment.
Could you not use people’s age as an insult?
If you don’t get it, it’s not even worth explaining.
k, thanks. bye.
edit: I’ve engaged enough here. Feel free to comment if you’d like blocked.
Boomers is more of a mindset than a specific age range to be fair
Hard disagree. It’s a generation. If people used zoomer or millennial in the same disparaging way in a meme, they’d be lambasted.
Yeah baby boomers are a generation, but not all baby boomers have a boomer mentality. I know some Gen X, some millennials and some zoomers that do too.
I’m familiar with the argument. And yet it is an age descriptor used as a pejorative. But no one cares because its just old people, right?
Don’t be absurd, the Greatest Generation was awesome.
It’s their kids that suck.
