Every millennial I know seems shocked and offended that we're entering middle age, and I completely agree with them.
@charlotteclymer I can't believe I'm 40 next year 😳 🙈😱

@charlotteclymer should try "Late 40's".

Them: "So... forty...?"
Me: "Late 40's"
Them: "I need you to be specific."
Me: "Fort..."[hand springs over mouth uncontrollably]

@charlotteclymer Elder GenX here: you'll get through it -- probably way better than previous gens did, too!
@elise__mae @charlotteclymer came here to say exactly this! I have decided that in my world 1980 was always 20 years ago - I don't mind being in my 50s but I will be damned if I change my entire sense of time to conform to reality.
@charlotteclymer Gen Xers moved the goalpost. Middle age now starts at 55. We don’t expect thanks but you’re welcome.

@charlotteclymer That can't be right.

I'm Gen X. For the generation younger than me to hit middle age, I would have to hit middle age first.

#RiverInEgypt

@charlotteclymer me, a boomer: slow grin
@TinCanWin @charlotteclymer
Boomer here who officially spends more time with my rheumatologist than I do my husband…
@lsbloom @charlotteclymer chuckling as I prop up my new left knee, 10 days old.
@lsbloom @charlotteclymer plus, I also am an Oxford comma devotee. Bff!
@charlotteclymer hahahaha… wait… I’m a xennial… and you’re takking about millennials… so that means…
@charlotteclymer it sucks and then, it gets wa worse. We need life extension technologies stat!
@charlotteclymer I refuse to acknowledge that I am a millennial. I refer to myself as part of the Oregon Trail Generation
@charlotteclymer oh just wait. It’s all beer and skittles now. After 70 it truly gets bad. Believe me on this.
@charlotteclymer Micro-generation/Xennial here and yeah, what the actual fuck. So I guess what I’m saying is that it just sucks more the further you get into it.
@charlotteclymer I’ve always thought the age range for “middle aged” needs to be higher now that we tend to live longer lives on average. 40 has never seemed like middle aged to me, I guess.
@charlotteclymer this Xgener sympathizes with you. We are getting older and we keep getting confused with Boomers.
@charlotteclymer If you think millennials have it rough, imagine how offended I am that people who weren't born when I was attending my 20 year high school reunion can legally drink.
@charlotteclymer Don’t sweat it. Sure, there are more aches and pains, and more doctors telling you about things you can’t eat or drink anymore, and more specialists keen to insert various probes into nether regions, and sure that little voice in your head that interrupts your good times by pointing out that one day you’ll die gets louder and more insistent, and sure, parents are getting sicker and older and people never shut up about insurance, but in the plus column…um….um…
@charlotteclymer yes, I used to be, but I'm squarely in the middle of it now. 

@charlotteclymer I turned 40 in June, my sister will be 35 next week, and I just can't wrap my mind around that. It's not even 9:30 at night right now, and I'm in bed, in my pajamas.

When did I get old???? LOL

@charlotteclymer
I too thought the same but some wise man said time waits for no man.
@charlotteclymer I'm a GenXer, and I *still* haven't gotten over this yet.
@charlotteclymer I remember when I was shocked and offended by the arrival of middle age. Kicking and screaming, I was. Now my joints hurt too much for that.
@charlotteclymer Generation X are just getting on with it 😆
@charlotteclymer better strap in for your sixties.
@charlotteclymer Don't worry, people try to say they're middle-aged until they're 60, so it's a big chunk of one's life.
@charlotteclymer Ahhhh, that's what we Gen Xers call "the good old days..."
@charlotteclymer when I was younger I had lesbian neighbor I am 74 now they were great neighbors no one bothered them or threatened them
@charlotteclymer I'm offended! Middle age, it offends me