Well I guess you will have a happy birthday :-)
I think you nailed the answer in your post. The snowflakes of this era were never given the opportunity to live in the real world.
They weren't raised by their parents, loving as they might have been, but by leftist controlled institutions that indoctrinated them to resist, refuse, ignore, and deny Reality. Now that they're forced to inhabit the real world, they're not equipped to cope with it.
The term, 'snowflake', was recently coined to describe these woebegone, carefully molded creatures of the left. I'm afraid the only cure for their condition is full immersion into Reality. That's gonna be painful for most, but some may well survive the experience to become well adjusted, productive members of society.