So they made a documentary about my life without my knowledge or approval.

Recognized myself in this video!! This is good.

Cool, thanks for sharing! I was the nuclear holocaust fearing dork in the 80’s!

Used to ride bikes to the Waterslide and Malibu Grand Prix in Northridge, CA during the summer in the early 80s. Me: 10. My brother: 7. Three miles away from home. Would pay the fee and stay at the Waterslide park all day long. There was an Arby’s next door. Would have a Beef ‘n Cheddar, fries and a coke for like $2.99. Would play Tempest, Paperboy and a host of other video games in the Malibu Grand Prix arcade. Today’s children, unfortunately, don’t know how much freedom Gen X had as kids. We were raised to be self sufficient and independent. I feel lucky today for that independence.

This is definitely me and my friends growing up. We're old Gen Xers but are still close friends and will rush in from hundreds of miles away to help one another without anyone asking. And we don't expect head pats for it.

Spot on! Thanks for sharing!

Im1966...., lol still invisible

There's a lot of overlap in the so called generations. We weren't latch key, but we didn't latch the door. We were left on our own. A lot. My mother didn't have a "job", but she grew and preserved every drop of food we ate. She made all our clothes except for the male blue jeans and coveralls. She did all of the finish work in our new house while doing the above. If needed she drove tractors, combines, herded cows and successfully shot her one deer a year to feed us AND helped butcher it and canned and dried it.

One learns a bit of independence when one participates in the activities needed for survival.

Yo! Get your quarters we're riding bikes up to Sev and we're going for the high score on Spy Hunter....

Wanna baffle younger generations at the cash register? When the bill is $15.99, give them $21.00 and watch for smoke to pour out of their ears!

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“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”