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@aspieleftist I had one of those too! But I'm not necessarily talking kids at home (0-18 yrs old). Surely no kid then or over 18 (and they are kids to me till about 30) ever badmouths their parents/grandparents or parents/grandparents generation; not to friends peers teachers colleagues
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@aspieleftist coworkers BF, GF, husbands wives????
I can guarantee you whether it's deserved or not, that is a universal thing that goes on.
Why? Because we are all looking at a different landscape in time and none of us did this perfectly and we've all failed to do a good many more things
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@aspieleftist than we did. If we can't start on that ground, there's no honestly to be had.
Moreover Life is certainly isn't over so there's many more chances to do better but what is so wrong with actually saying “yeah my gen dropped the ball on this & that and you are living with the
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@aspieleftist consequences. I'm terribly sorry we were not far sighted enough and thinking back clearly we were too self absorbed to think that our neighbors problem was in fact our problem, mainly b/c we were consumed other problems that are hard to now describe but we had our heads down
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@aspieleftist too long and too much just surviving so we thought and that has cost us all.” I mean that's an answer and an honest one that's true all generations

You people today are facing a catastrophic future you helped create, can't begin to imagine AND WONT BE AROUND FOR & they
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@aspieleftist don't even see 1/3 of the array of opportunities y'all had to look forward to either

That they are pissed and edgy SHOULD BE UNDERSTANDABLE.

But remember, though they are young, these so called kids are now adults & the respect you want for just having lived is now fair
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@aspieleftist game to be to assessed via how you handle the present and nothing earns respect quite so much like having an honest conversation
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