6 of the 7 of the Gen X people I can think of do this. The odd guy out is a nut job and can't think right at all from getting hit on the head too many times.
Yeah, andit totally didnt fuck us up at all. Hahaha "But think of all the cool shit you get from double holidays as your parents try and one up each other!"
We were the original "Slacker" generation. We were taught (or taught ourselves) not to give a fuck about what people think because praise wasn't something that was doled out often. We were raised by boomers who either ignored us so the System raised us or they shit on everything we did because nothing was as good as what they did.
GenX parents tended to overcomensate by becoming helicopter moms and Soccer Susans. That's where the participation trophies come from.
I crossed the Mississippi River on a mattress. I sought no praise, in fact, I didn’t want my parents to ever find out. The river pigs nabbed us on the way back, so my parents did find out. I got something. It wasn’t praise. But we did it, god damnit!
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[ - ] Belfuro 5 points 1.2 yearsMar 5, 2024 19:41:31 ago (+6/-1)
Even though we were the first that suffered from growing up in divorced families.
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Remember that "logic"?
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Turned me into a man through the power of negative role models. What not to do.
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GenX parents tended to overcomensate by becoming helicopter moms and Soccer Susans. That's where the participation trophies come from.
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