As if this isn’t true for pretty much every age group.
Being 12 is wild, people your age are living completely different lives. Some have loving parents, some are only children, some have divorced parents, some have known only abuse their entire lives.
It’s super obvious that Lemmy is predominantly elder millenial and gen X men lol
We can pick almost any 12 year old in a developed country and know a lot about them. They go to school (unless they’re home schooled), they don’t yet have a job (though they might babysit or run a lemonade stand), and they’re at or near puberty, complete with all the things that come with it. Some may be further along than others, but they are more or less going through the same stage of life. None of them are getting married or taking an early retirement or what-have-you.
After a certain age, those similarities disappear. Although we were all on the same page as each other once upon a time, by 40 our paths have diverged in such extreme ways that looking at others of the same age can be surprising.
If you’re not old enough to relate, that’s fine, but it’d be silly to dismiss the experiences of others just because you’re not there yet. I’m not 40 yet, but I’ve seen enough by my mid-30s to understand what this post is trying to capture.
I love that your own examples came with a bunch of exceptions. The puberty one has exceptions too - puberty blockers, early/late onset puberty, and so on.
This is just a collection of high probability things. Same is true for people in their 40s, like most in their 40s probably don’t live with their parents, just as a random example.
You’ve just forgotten, or never realized, the disparity of life experiences of being a kid, and y’all like to imagine that being in your 40s is somehow unique or special as a way of coping with getting older
I did kind of groan when I saw this post because I don’t like being reminded that I’m just part of a demographic trend with a twitter-screenshot chorus always low-effort riffing on the mundane details of my aging process like it’s something special.
thing is, it is kinda special, you’ve accumulated a lot more life experience than i have, and i’m sure there are lots aspects to life that are different when you’re 40, and i’m genuinely interested to hear the perspectives of people who are there and to try and learn from it, but this post in particular is a little silly imo!
They’re admitting they’re realizing the world is a broad diverse place at 40s. So many in here right now are evidence of that. They’re not even getting it. They’re trying to beat the world back into the narrow box that fits into their conception of how things should be.
It’s super obvious that Lemmy is predominantly elder millenial and gen X men lol
The older internet demographic is primarily western upper class males.
As if this isn’t true for pretty much every age group.
Being 12 is wild, people your age are living completely different lives. Some have loving parents, some are only children, some have divorced parents, some have known only abuse their entire lives.
It’s super obvious that Lemmy is predominantly elder millenial and gen X men lol
We can pick almost any 12 year old in a developed country and know a lot about them. They go to school (unless they’re home schooled), they don’t yet have a job (though they might babysit or run a lemonade stand), and they’re at or near puberty, complete with all the things that come with it. Some may be further along than others, but they are more or less going through the same stage of life. None of them are getting married or taking an early retirement or what-have-you.
After a certain age, those similarities disappear. Although we were all on the same page as each other once upon a time, by 40 our paths have diverged in such extreme ways that looking at others of the same age can be surprising.
If you’re not old enough to relate, that’s fine, but it’d be silly to dismiss the experiences of others just because you’re not there yet. I’m not 40 yet, but I’ve seen enough by my mid-30s to understand what this post is trying to capture.
I love that your own examples came with a bunch of exceptions. The puberty one has exceptions too - puberty blockers, early/late onset puberty, and so on.
This is just a collection of high probability things. Same is true for people in their 40s, like most in their 40s probably don’t live with their parents, just as a random example.
You’ve just forgotten, or never realized, the disparity of life experiences of being a kid, and y’all like to imagine that being in your 40s is somehow unique or special as a way of coping with getting older
OK boomer
i’m actually a really smart baby communicating using neuralink
I did kind of groan when I saw this post because I don’t like being reminded that I’m just part of a demographic trend with a twitter-screenshot chorus always low-effort riffing on the mundane details of my aging process like it’s something special.
thing is, it is kinda special, you’ve accumulated a lot more life experience than i have, and i’m sure there are lots aspects to life that are different when you’re 40, and i’m genuinely interested to hear the perspectives of people who are there and to try and learn from it, but this post in particular is a little silly imo!
They’re admitting they’re realizing the world is a broad diverse place at 40s. So many in here right now are evidence of that. They’re not even getting it. They’re trying to beat the world back into the narrow box that fits into their conception of how things should be.
The older internet demographic is primarily western upper class males.