Þórdís HelgadóttiirAre we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
Millenial
Gen X
Gen Z
Boomer/Gen Alpha/Other
Poll ended at .
Szczur (wersja wiosenna)@thordis Xennial here - on the cusp of millenials and gen X
Clem Fandango@szczurtorebkowy @thordis also seen us called "the lucky ones" and "the Oregon Trail Generation"
Aaron@hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis ostensibly it's centered around us being born into a totally analog world that still played outside all day without supervision and movies and TV had production values still and there were Rolodexes, but then we were still young enough for the flip to a digital society to be able to implant itself in our lives in a way that the Lead Paint Generation and Gen X was just a little too old and inelastic for. Some of them could, but not overall.
@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis I don't feel lucky. I feel like I'm watching all my hopes and dreams be torn down for good, just as they were about to finally be within reach. The stuff I worked toward my whole life... I worked toward it for nothing. All the angst, trying to be good enough for my parents and then my children, only to find out it was pointless because it doesn't matter what I do or did. The world has turned to a giant dumpster fire, and I don't know how we will ever climb out of it.
Energetic Nova@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
I an feeling I never even got the chance in the first place. Graduated in 2009. Zero jobs my entire life. Felt like I crawled out from this mentally ill hole I fell in and now well im yeah deeply feeling we have lost everything. Im autistic… was a special ed kid who benefitted a lot from changing policy allowing me into mainstream classes and required I have a qualified teacher and nothing much since.
We autistics have the lowest employment rate of any disability group. The way jobs are allocated is fundamentally dependent on neurotypical-style social interactions. We strike many neurotypicals as "off" somehow because we don't move or talk or think like them. I think we hit the uncanny valley, basically. And because they often make their assessments and hiring decisions on "gut feeling", that incongruous signaling is enough for us to be passed over...over and over and over.
I've been the lucky exception in that I can *sometimes* seem NT enough to pass the exclusion tests.
@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
I answered “not a leader” even though I was captain of knowledge bowl and president of anime club
@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
I was captain cause the hummingbird motions. Its hard to believe I have ended up in states of being where I dont move at all.
@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
I move like a hummingbird. But not like they would know with all the online application and no interviews… I think its cause I graduated from a special ed class… cause they can know that. And even knowing they could pay me sub minimum… they still wouldn’t chance me.
But I at least understand why people think Im on drugs when I saw myself on security footage next to a normal married couple… they moved line penguins. My hummingbird flapping surly…