Thread by @Telegraph

⁉️Are you a geriatric millennial?

The forgotten bridge between Gen Xers and millennials - that don't perfectly fit into either generation...

The micro-generation are speaking out about not quite fitting in.

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Geriatric millennials are born between 1980 and 1985.

↔️Believed to work across office divides, the micro-generation are comfortable in both an analogue and digital world.

Born in 1982, @RosaSilverman has welcomed "this sudden, late arrival of a generational identity"

🖊️The term went viral this week, courtesy of American writer and leadership expert, Erica Dhawan, who self-identifies as a geriatric millennial.

🙅Many on social media are seizing on the “geriatric” tag and taking concocted offence

⁉️ Do you find the term offensive?

🚣"We are the straddlers, floating somewhere between the generations, never quite sure where we belong"

Geriatric millennials are in a limbo between generations...
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🕺"We were too young for illegal raves, but ready for superclubs.

🍾"We were the bastard children of ecstasy culture and binge-drinking culture.

🚬"Cigarettes were cheap and not yet covered in warnings of certain death" writes @RosaSilverman

❣️"We started dating people we met in real life. Only later switching to online,

🔜"We narrowly missed out on the bit where young people decided sexuality and gender could be viewed as a spectrum and duly freed themselves from old-fashioned shackles," writes @RosaSilverman

What are the official generations? 👇

Baby Boomers: Born between 1946 and 1964

✅Enjoyed a free university education, cheap housing and final salary pension

❌Poisoning the Earth for the generations who came after

🤚Rebelled against their parents by smoking pot and taking acid

Generation X: Born between the mid-1960s and late-1970s

🦺Brought up before health and safety took over with less adult supervision than subsequent cohorts

🎉Embraced a work hard/play hard ethic

💊Rebelled by attending illegal warehouse raves and taking ecstasy

Millennials: Born between 1980 and 1996

📚Known for reading Harry Potter books well into adulthood

✅Making it OK to discuss mental health and expecting people are nice to them

🍻They grew up binge-drinking and listening to The Spice Girls

Generation Z: Born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s

📱Digital natives who don’t remember life without the internet

🚫They drink less and have less sex than their predecessors did in their youth

🗨️They've replaced actual talking with memes, emojis and Instagram captions

What Generation are you?

Do you believe the stereotypes for your generation are accurate?

🎶On being a Geriatric millennial, @RosaSilverman says "it’s fitting, perhaps, to paraphrase a song by Sleeper, an indie band favoured by some of us geriatric millennials,

“Now it’s much too late to ask us where we’ve been. We were just the in-betweeners”
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