Whilst perusing the Interwebs, I found this article on hellogiggles.com: "Hey 90s Kid, You're Old: Coping with the new Generation Gap." Holy crap this is just what I need!
http://hellogiggles.com/hey-90s-kids-youre-old-coping-with-the-new-generation-gap by TARYN PARRISH
Because on one hand, I graduated college a little later than usual, making me one of the oldest in my friend group. I also have a lot of friends a little older--I graduated in 2007 from high school and many of them graduated in '06 and '05. So I'm used to being slightly older and slightly younger. Obviously we can all relate to the same things--that's why we're friends. We like and hate similar things. But entering the workforce, all I hear is YOU'RE SO YOUNG and OMG DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A FLOPPY DISC IS? No, seriously, I was asked that at my internship over the summer by a girl only 2 years older than me. And I would like to respond with YES, I DO. I IN FACT STILL OWN SOME. BOOYAH. But seriously! People will point out how young you are every two minutes if they're 5 or more years older than you, meanwhile you are starting to realize you are getting old. I'm going through a crisis AND YOU AREN'T HELPING. Of course I take it as a compliment at first. Until you mention it every time I timestamp something with, "Oh, I was 16 when that CD came out" or "Yeah, I wasn't allowed to watch that movie when it came out because I was too young" or "my first CD was 98 Degrees."
But the people I'm around, including a 16-year-old brother, are often a generation behind me, whether the internet defines kids born in the mid-to late-90s as millenials or not (they aren't, if you're calling late 80s-early 90s millenials). I can't relate to my brother any more than he can relate to me. Thank god, at least he's watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on his own. I can't describe how I'm feeling, but it's uncomfortable. I'm too young for one generation and too old for another. So maybe I'll just stick to my friends. At least they understand me when I say Hocus Pocus scared me as a kid and know all the words to "I'll Make a Man out of You" from Mulan.
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