Like lots of people out there, I was born in 1985 — that makes me 30 years old.
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Here I am enjoying a Lite-Brite, like many '80s kids did.
My high school experience looked like this:
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And this:
And THIS:
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Being born during the 1980s and early 1990s, we were told we were "Generation Y."
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That, respectably, came after "Generation X."
We called ourselves "Generation Y" and identified with key aspects of it – like being tech nerds.
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Also: discovering grunge music, living through the golden era of The Simpsons, and enjoying the pleasures of jawbreakers.
When OUT OF NOWHERE, someone decided to lump us together with Gen X and Z and call us ALL MILLENNIALS???
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I'm sorry, but no. You can't just take away a whole group of people's collective identities a decade after the fact. We're not Generation X:
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As lovely as they are.
We're NOT Generation Z.
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(Good luck to them.)
And we're certainly not all "millennials."
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We are Generation Y and WE WANT OUR IDENTITY BACK!
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