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TL:DR

We were the first generation to widely experience:

a high volume of moms working outside the home.

divorced parents

friends coming safely out of the closet.

the diversity of Sesame Street, the lessons in community from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and the brilliant bonkers of Electric Company.

taught about environmental sustainability from a young age thats recycling and land management to global warming

American generation who have not improved on our parents financial situation because wages stagnated while inflation skyrocketed.

saw men and women enrolled in college in equal numbers.

We were the last generation to:

have a technology free childhood.

live though a time when a missed call was a missed call.

spent a largely unsupervised childhood on dangerous playground equipment

We were the last generation to graduate from high school before the escalation of school shootings began and the first generation to send our children into schools with this threat hanging over us as the norm.

When 9/11 happened, we were most of the boots on the ground. We were many of the victims. Our unique positioning in history gave us a perspective that some of you are still struggling to understandand this spans ALL generations, not just those older than us. Because some of you who are younger than we are just dont get what it was like BEFORE we came along and some of you who are older than us refuse to process new information, So let me break this down for youwe did a LOT of heavy lifting so you all didnt have to.