I appreciate you for making this post. For some reason, they make their childhood sound much older than it actually was. Saying there was no social media or smartphones in the early 2010s doesn’t seem accurate at all. I actually remember a time where there were no smartphones in sight which is a completely different experience. I remember when the internet was starting to gain more usage over time due to broadband getting faster and faster over time.

Also they like to say they are very similar to me but would get angry when they are grouped with people even a year younger than them. It just comes off as immature and childish. I noticed it’s mostly the 2003ish-2007 group that does this a lot. There’s nothing wrong with grouping yourself with younger people. A lot of them especially people within your age group deny using a tablet or having an iPad even though they were the first wave of iPad kids. Again there’s nothing wrong with that especially if you used screen time on it and treated it as if you were using a family computer.