I’m a little too young (Late 83) but sure don’t feel like a “millennial”. I call myself gen y.
The article makes an interesting point...the media rarely talks about Gen X anymore, compared to when they talked about them CONSTANTLY in their 1990s heyday when they came of age. You know, MTV generation, hip and cool, tech saavy, Clinton appealed to ‘em in ‘92 when Gen X was supposedly old enough to vote for the first time (I was 11-12ish in that era). Now it’s all Baby Boomers vs. Millennials, nobody talks about Gen X anymore. I think “Gen Y” was the original name for Millennials before the whole “millennial” thing caught on in recent years. In any case, being born in the late 70s/early 80s apparently puts us in generational limbo as “ Xennials” (I bet some millennial hipster idiot came up with that term) It makes it impossible for us to identify with either group... we were too old to experience the things Millennials remember growing(That’s So Raven! for example) and too young to experience the things Gen X remembers growing up! (Schoolhouse Rock and all that)
Apparently people born around 1965ish have the same problem...demographically they are stuck between Baby Boomer and Gen X. Ditto with people born DURING World War II, like my dad’s older brother, who recently passed away, was born in ‘43...(how does that even work? The husbands were away fighting NAZIs). They are stuck between the “Greatest Generation” and the Boomers. Apparently we never had a President from that generation (we went straight from WWII vets to Boomers) but we had several VICE presidents, like Walter Mondale (too young to have served in WWII, too old to be a post-war Boomer)