Gen-Xers care about and work hard on things they care about, not necessarily things other people care about.

X, in mathematics, means UNKNOWN. Y’all have no clue what we’re capable of.

As to the "not caring". Another reason we don't care? Because it was DRILLED in to us as kids by our parents. "Why do you care what they think? Who are they to you? They don't like you screw them. Well now you know who your real friends are. Just don't pay attention to it. If you ignore it, it will stop. If you cry they will just keep doing it." For the most part, unless it got REALLY bad, our parents didn't go to the teacher or other school staff about it. We just had to "tuff it out, in 5 months you'll be out of school and maybe won't have classes with them next year".

We care a lot.. we just don't care about stupid petty crap and drama..

Me: Combat Vet - No family, No kids, No Friends Left, No cares left - trust me, my apathy and indifference to you - is a blessing.

We are the "Don't start None, Won't be None" generation. I get weird looks when I say that to people, but I stand on that business 100%. PLEASE, let us be... You've been warned 😂❤

GenX not caring has been a stereotype placed on us since we were kids. Older generations sometimes portrayed as the Lost Generation, as troubled losers and lazy deviants. But obviously we've cared, such as highly valuing family in ensuring our own kids weren't underparented as we were. On a political level, multiple major protest movements were filled with GenXers: WTO protest, Iraq War protest, Occupy Movement, BLM, etc. It's just we've never gotten credit for anything we've done as a generation.

In a nutshell, from a job recruiter: "Ooh, I see your resume is very impressive. You've worked at NASA, HP, and Microsoft. Everybody starts at the same rate of $13/hr. and there will be 20+ hours mandatory weekly overtime. How does that sound, champ?"

We care but we pick our battles carefully.

For a lot of us it wasn't even that our parents didn't care, we just didn't want to add to the shit they were already dealing with! so as always we just hid everything away and got on with it as best we could

Proud Gen-X'er over here. I loathe this current snowflake culture.

As a GenXer, I’ve been there! Home was rough, school was rough and life in general was rough. But it taught us to appreciate the good moments which could seem all too few and far between back then!

It has to be a very good reason for us to care. We spent so much time just surviving and adults kept letting us down. We made our own families from our friend groups. But yeah,most of us are definitely just tired.

You touched on something interesting. As Gen X we were told not to show any emotions, and as a result we buried everything. As adults members of Gen X created bands like Slipknot, Disturbed, Godsmack, Korn, Papa Roach etc. which were very rage filled bands. We then had both the boomers and millennials tell us the music was to "emo" so basically we were told again not to have emotions.

Or, we complained about being bullied to our parents and schools and they didn't care about our problems then. F-em.

Thank you for bringing up the bullying. I suffered for years from that. When 90's grune discussed this, it resonated. Now parents go out of their well to spare their kids this. No one helped us and we got grief for even bringing it up. Dad would say life isn't fair. You need to get used to it. So high school was pure hell. No one cared about us, so we stopped caring ourselves. We picj and choose what to give a flip about.

When I tell my kids, I worked at a sawmill when I was 12 over summer vacation. They think I'm exaggerating. Oh yes, Child labor laws existed, "In theory". Taught me that at 12 years old, if you can work like an adult, you sill get paid like a kid. But at 14 when you can outwork an adult you can get a dollar more an hour, still not as good as everyone else got. At 47, I treat my employees better, and pay them in keeping.

You always speak the truth about Generation X, we were latchkey kids, the stuff we've been through this generation will never know how to handle it, and I'm talking about these Late Millennials, Generation Z a Generation Alpha, I'm a early 70s baby so I agree with everything you're saying,, that's why I always said the best ERA in generation are the Baby Boomers Generation X, and Xennials those are the 80s babies, keep doing your thing my sister, The Best Is yet to come, the problem with this generation is there too damn sensitive to every damn thing,

The thing is: We had real danger at home with our parents and, as a German, I was afraid enough to be the center of the battlefield for the superpowers USSR and USA to care about other nations very much. Dancing and having fun on a vulcano whilst having to look for a job, taking care of your siblings, doing your chores, doing homework and trying to find out who the f you are whilst looking for the latest internship was occupying enough. You literally already grew up with everyone telling you you live in the end times. And acid rain still added on it, and Chernobyl with us Germans not being allowed to have fresh fruit from the garden...This was enough heavy weight on us. And the interesting thing for US is that the world did not come to an end, so we are a little sceptic on all that "end of the world" stuff that the climate demonstrations threw at us, whilst using their iphones made by Chinese children and with very seldom resources and going to foreign countries by plane every holiday. And with the cold war, both sides claimed it was the other sides fault, so we are a little sceptic about the missioners on both sides of the Israelian-Palestine war who say one side is the. devil whilst. the other is full of angels.....

Such a great vid Rosey. We really did have it tough back then, but thank goodness we had each other for support back in those days. I remember playing video games at my local arcade and by the time I left I made 12 new friends. Now with all the drama and BS happening in the world, we really don't want to hear it. We finally got that peace we were looking for growing up and we just want to enjoy it now. Wishing you the best Rosey and thanks again. ❤