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Gods thank you. If lemmy is any indication of youth culture and beliefs and attitudes, fuck me. (Am middle-aged with mostly 20-something friends, they are not like y'all.)
Freaks the shit out of me how scared young people are of simple social interaction. "LOL, I'm too autistic to answer the phone!" Yeah, well there are reasons we no longer want to do so, but y'all are NOT all autistic and ADHD. "Hate talking to a cashier." Fuck is wrong with you?! I want to scream, "You're not autistic for being socially uncomfortable you wuss! That's a normal part of growing up!"
Fuck me, thought I had a handle on it from my junior year until I went to college, BAM!, like puberty all over again. And then the same damned anxiety hit in my late 20s! "Welp. Guess I gotta do this every 7 years or so." We had words for this: "Growing up." It can suck, but we all have to do it. Get the fuck over yourself, you are not special or strange or different. The horror may be, you are normal.
And yes, anyone trying to mix us up, make us see through rose-tinted glasses, is a liar with something to sell. And anyone trying to make the past into a hellscape is at best ignorant, wasn't there.