Incessant racism by paranoid family members and media writ large (which made even little me feel icky)
2008 Great Recession. Constant fear of where my next meal was coming from all through middle school.
More school shootings
Was supposed to idolize a man who dumped drone bombs on foreign kids because at least he wasn’t Bush. Still wondered why we had troops in the Middle East if things were supposed to be better?
At least equal marriage was federally legalized in 2015. Yay
Missed the deadline to vote in 2016 due to moving issues, had to watch hell happen in real time.
Lived in a major city, therefore in constant fear of nuclear holocaust due to a deranged rapist not keeping his mouth shut. After growing up in fear of anthrax in the mail and getting gunned down at school :)))
Told that college was the only way I’d make anything of myself. Graduated into COVID.
Watched reproductive rights get ripped away from millions after my family scoffed that they wouldn’t. My own grandmother had bodily rights longer than I did.
Been pinching my nose and voting consistently since 2018, but still see fascism come roaring back full swing and transphobia+racism+now pedophilia get openly celebrated by a majority of rubes.
Plus a ton of my own health issues that only worsened after getting COVID (and that’s with the vaccine, I fear for what would have happened without it)? Yeah, I’m waiting to get off the ride but refuse to do it myself out of spite.
I want to see the obituaries of at least a few of these bastards, first.
Lol yep. Except it’s weird, I remember the world generally getting worse, but people getting less bad for a lot of my childhood. Around the beginning of my memories every adult in the country lost their goddamn mind and a lot of them got super racist to middle eastern folks. So yeah over the course of the 00s I watched as insane people chilled out and my generation became increasingly chill with people of different skin colors, religions, genders, and sexual orientations. I watched as Obama was elected, homophobia became uncool, and Americans learned to get over themselves and eat a falafel.
Then in college gamergare happened and the one area where things had been improving became a constant battle. So yeah hope faded to anger. I still have hope, but it’s a very different hope than one of my youth
Limnals and early millennials spent enough of their lives able to perceive Good Shit and still have some modicum of hope.
'90-‘99? Those folks grew up in a fuckin’ 911 world. All they know is shit and all they pray for is an early grave
USian ‘90s born:
9/11 before kindergarten, watched it on live TV.
Increasing school shootings year over year
Incessant racism by paranoid family members and media writ large (which made even little me feel icky)
2008 Great Recession. Constant fear of where my next meal was coming from all through middle school.
More school shootings
Was supposed to idolize a man who dumped drone bombs on foreign kids because at least he wasn’t Bush. Still wondered why we had troops in the Middle East if things were supposed to be better?
At least equal marriage was federally legalized in 2015. Yay
Missed the deadline to vote in 2016 due to moving issues, had to watch hell happen in real time.
Lived in a major city, therefore in constant fear of nuclear holocaust due to a deranged rapist not keeping his mouth shut. After growing up in fear of anthrax in the mail and getting gunned down at school :)))
Told that college was the only way I’d make anything of myself. Graduated into COVID.
Watched reproductive rights get ripped away from millions after my family scoffed that they wouldn’t. My own grandmother had bodily rights longer than I did.
Been pinching my nose and voting consistently since 2018, but still see fascism come roaring back full swing and transphobia+racism+now pedophilia get openly celebrated by a majority of rubes.
Plus a ton of my own health issues that only worsened after getting COVID (and that’s with the vaccine, I fear for what would have happened without it)? Yeah, I’m waiting to get off the ride but refuse to do it myself out of spite.
I want to see the obituaries of at least a few of these bastards, first.
Lol yep. Except it’s weird, I remember the world generally getting worse, but people getting less bad for a lot of my childhood. Around the beginning of my memories every adult in the country lost their goddamn mind and a lot of them got super racist to middle eastern folks. So yeah over the course of the 00s I watched as insane people chilled out and my generation became increasingly chill with people of different skin colors, religions, genders, and sexual orientations. I watched as Obama was elected, homophobia became uncool, and Americans learned to get over themselves and eat a falafel.
Then in college gamergare happened and the one area where things had been improving became a constant battle. So yeah hope faded to anger. I still have hope, but it’s a very different hope than one of my youth
‘90-‘99 checking in, yep.