Generational scholars think I'm in the same generation as 6 year-olds.

[SmileyBoy]

And I'm 23, for christ sakes. My life and the world around me growing up was completely different than the lives and world of kids who are 6 years old.

Those idiots have the generation cut-off point at 1981. I was born in 1982. For example, Barney came out when I was 10, and I thought it was disgusting back then. For the first 12 years of my life, there was basically no Internet. I remember being taught how to use the Internet when I was in the 7th grade. Pokemon? It came out when I was in high school. My age group was obviously too old for that. I'm in the same age group who used to listen to Nirvana when we were in 5th 6th and 7th grade, watched the Berlin Wall fall when we were little kids, not quite understanding what the consequences of it were, but still watching it. I watched Gorbachev visit Minneapolis when I was 8, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

I am NOT like a 6 year-old in any way.

[xmas74]

1. This might be of interest to you.

Some are actually dating Gen Y much further back, calling the cutoff in 1993 or 1994. Others are calling the cutoff as 9/11. Most are inbetween.

Many are calling the cutoff for your generation as 1993 or 1994 because the defining event is 9/11 and some feel that, in order for someone to be in Gen Y, they would have to have some memory of the event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Silent_Generation

(Silent Generation-beginning anywhere from 1993 to 9/12/2001,depending on the generational scholar.)

I've read more and more recently on the subject. Many seem to be calling the cutoff mark as 1994.

Remember, it could always be worse. I'm a Gen X'er. We don't get much respect from anyone.

(Another argument is that the late 80's and early 90's is it's own generation.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGeneration )