gonna celebrate my impending 42ness by reupping this
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74 is pretty firmly X. I feel no cusp identity crisis. It’s like 79-81.
Also I hate talking on the phone and maximize texting
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it really was reading coupland's book and totally not identifying with it, combined with the 80s cartoon/toy complex, combined with the internet becoming a thing before i was committed to an academic track
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in other words a super narrow sliver of demographic non-cohort (which i would expand to 1976-1983 so i am pretty much in the middle of it)
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oh also i suppose being too young to be enervated about the cold war also plays a role
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That was definitely a biggie for me because India transformed unbelievably rapidly from basically commie to basically capitalist in the exact 4 years I was in high school. Ages 14-18

