Like lots of people out there, I was born in 1985 — that makes me 30 years old.

My high school experience looked like this:



And this:

And THIS:

Being born during the 1980s and early 1990s, we were told we were "Generation Y."

We called ourselves "Generation Y" and identified with key aspects of it – like being tech nerds.

When OUT OF NOWHERE, someone decided to lump us together with Gen X and Z and call us ALL MILLENNIALS???

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:

We're NOT Generation Z.

And we're certainly not all "millennials."

We are Generation Y and WE WANT OUR IDENTITY BACK!


