At what age did you realize...you had more in common with those older than you vs younger?

[FirstLight]

Seriously? I guess I am slowly coming to realize this, kind of a slow waking up.

Maybe cuz my kids are finally entering final teen years. So when talking to other younger parents I feel myself thinking "I am SO glad I am done with THAT phase!" (Meaning the kids and my life as a single mom in my 30s )

Maybe because the technology gap has finally smacked me in the face and I feel like a doddering old fool sometimes not understanding new apps or features, or even the slang used for them. I tease my teens by purposefully calling it "Snappy-chats" and "Insta-Grammies"

Maybe because I realize that the people I have in my closest inner circle are either my age or older...we like the same music and politics and get the jokes we make about our generations.

I guess all this "millennial vs ok, Boomer" shit has been kind of funny to me to watch...then again I am Gen X and my teens are Gen Z

Thoughts?

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[dewsgirl]

1. I was about 13 or 14, most of those my own age were

very immature. I'm Gen X also.

[unblock]

2. 5 maybe?

[JoeOtterbein]

3. Never.

Even now, at 63, I like to think of myself as immature.

[Claritie Pixie]

4. I'm Gen X and I have more in common with Millenials, people younger than me.

In my consulting work, it's the start ups by young people who recognize my expertise that I enjoy helping.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Went to a huge multi-day Rock Festival in my fifties.

I used to be Mister "Sex, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll". Now I'm looking around at all the stoned and drunk teenagers and thinking "What the hell is wrong with these people?"

[safeinOhio]

6. I was about 60.

Ten years ago.

[spooky3]

7. When I realized I couldn't attend festivals because

There might not be enough clean toilets.

[FirstLight]

8. Interesting array of answers!

I definitely had some inkling of that in my teens too

I'm turning 50 in January, and most of my friends are definitely my own age. I also do tend to be the "cool mom" of my teens' friend group, they actually *gasp* enjoy going to lunch and road trips with me

I even LIKE *gasp* my daughter's playlist!

It's just an interesting place to be in life I guess. Middle age is definitely a "bridge" of sorts. You kids growing up, parents aging and leaving the planet... I'm seeing my place on the year-wheel very differently these days...

(must be early onset senility! heehee)

[MyOwnPeace]

9. The "shift" hit me........

when I realized that the "Playmate of the Month" was young enough to be my daughter!!


ON EDIT: I wonder how IQ45 felt about that?

[FirstLight]

10. ...

ok, kinda the same...when I realized the cute guy at the store was old enough to be my kid...and he called me "ma'am" damn!

I actually kinda "like" guys that are a little younger than me, but I draw the line at 13 years
why? cuz that's a whole babysitter age thing that could border on weird, lmao

~ ~ ~

yeah...mf45 doesn't care about that stuff, he just grabs and does what he wants ...ew

[Binkie The Clown]

11. I've never found it to be a matter of older vs younger.

Some old folks have amazing wisdom, and so do some 6 year olds. Then again, you can find complete idiots at all ages. That's whyt we have the Darwin Awards. Just watch this idiot cyclist who clearly deserves a Darwin Award of his own.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/driver-flees-hitting-florida-bicyclist-212854252.html

[lastlib]

12. When one of my childhood Boy Scout buddies.....

...brought his grandson in to sign up to join my troop. I knew then that I was officially one of the old dudes......

[OriginalGeek]

13. Around 50

And what really hammers it home is I no longer get in the pit at death metal shows. I either go all the way up front to get good pics or hang back and watch the kids slam into each other.

[csziggy]

14. At about twelve years of age

My science/math teacher held up a geodetic survey map and I immediately could correctly identify it - my dad and granddad were mining engineers and I'd seen those maps all my life. A month or so later that teacher explained to the class that my grades shifted the curve for the class so everyone else got lower grades than they would have if I had not been in the class.

After that, I was ostracized by the rest of the kids and found conversations with older kids or adults much more interesting. Of course, part of the problem was having a certified genius as an oldest sister and a really, really smart older sister, both of whom shared their lessons and reading lists with me.

Now I am happy to find people my age or younger that I can have meaningful conversations with. Too bad it took 55 years to get there!

[Skittles]

15. I have not yet reached that stage

happy about that

[keithbvadu2]

16. I used to be the young buck who drove the old folks when we went out.

I used to be the young buck who drove the old folks when we went out.

Now, I'm in the passenger seat.

[keithbvadu2]

17. when the rebellious songs of your youth are playing in the elevator...

You know you're getting old when the rebellious songs of your youth are playing in the elevator...

on the pan flute.

[FirstLight]

18. lmao right?

or when you hear Bon Jovi in the grocery store, or ACDC

[JonLP24]

19. Maybe 14 or 15 I hung out with older teens or adults

When I went into the Army I hated it. It was like high school all over again.

My ex-wife is 9 years older than me to give a sense of who I preferred to be around.

[malthaussen]

20. About twelve.

Now I think I have more in common with kids 20 years younger than I. well, except for a few old hippies.

-- Mal

[Wawannabe]

21. GenX replying. 😁

The day I became a grandmother. I was 46.

[3catwoman3]

22. A long-ago acquaintance was a grandmother by 36.

She had a child when she was 20, and that daughter had a baby at 16.

I had my second kid when I was 41.

[Wawannabe]

23. My mother was a grandma at 36

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She had my older sister at 20 and sis had her first at 16.

[Iggo]

24. When I realized I was the last thing standing between my kids and their demise.