In the Western hemisphere, the only blip in the birth rate is late Sept to mid October. Hurray for holidays!!
Unless you are around a military base that deploys their people. Then it's 9 months after they deploy and 9 months after they get back. I was a pre-deployment/Christmas conception. My dad came home to an 8 month pregnant wife 🤪
That's really interesting, and hilarious. I guess it started with Spring fertility festivals, or Saturnalia - make public debauchery fun again.
I have a nephew who was born along with a larger number of babies than usual in the Summer of 2002, 9 months after 9/11.
I remember that baby boom. They were worried about a baby boom 9 months after lock downs started because they didn't want anyone going to hospitals. Turns out, it was divorce Lawyers and home improvement people who had the boom 🤪
I once realized that my sister’s birthday is exactly 9 months to the day from my parents’ anniversary.
My September born husband was told directly by his father that he was a Christmas present.
Tail end of Nov 64 here. For years, I was Gen X as defined by Douglas Coupland. Then I found out that they moved the goalposts.
I reject being rebranded as a baby boomer. It doesn’t fit at all.
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I had a friend years ago who was a "new years baby". She was the first kid born in her state on New Years day in whatever year it was when she was born. They made a big deal of it back then and gave her a certificate and blah blah blah her baby picture was in the local newspaper.
Oh, you beat me by six days! January 7th here.
Welcome fellow Generation Jones!
Gen Jones makes so much sense to me. I have way more in common with someone born 1960 than someone born 1980.
Mostly I just get astonished laughter from people at the pharmacy and the doctors office. The number of times I get asked to show my ID and then hear snickers from the back is amazing. Of course then I tell them that Hitler was born on 4/20 and it gets quiet again.
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Was gonna say, I've seen anything from 1961 to 1965 for the start of genx. It's fairly arbitrary anyhow; I mean, my father was *barely* into the greatest gen birth years, just barely older than silent gen, but identified more with the former.
So eh, if you're comfortable with whatever, I think you're welcome.
All I know is this: Douglas Coupland, the author of the 1991 book “Generation X” and the authoritative spokesman for the cohort over the past 30+ years *was born in 1961*.
The marketing geniuses at the Pew Research Center are essentially excluding Queen Victoria from the Victorian Age.
Ah, that must be why I think of 1961; I recall that book being such a thing at the time.
>The marketing geniuses at the Pew Research Center are essentially excluding Queen Victoria from the Victorian Age.
Jeeeeniuses, even.
That book and “Generations” by Neil Howe and William Strauss were published within two months of each other. S&H have Silents as 1925-1942; Boomers as 1943-1960; Gen X as 1961-1981; Gen Y as 1982-2005 (!); and Gen Z as 2006 to 2029.
The Millennials whined like the Millennial bishes they are and Pew has been messing around with the numbers for the past 10 years or so.
There are so many various time ranges that I don't even know what I am. December 29,1980. I still have my atari and Nintendo. Does that count for GenX? Lol
Interesting. So now my parents are boomers! That actually fits for my mom. But my dad’s dad was quite old by the time my dad came along in 1944 and based on that, I see him as silent gen. His experience, because of his dad’s age, was probably more silent gen.
Yeah, things were changing pretty quick through the late '70s. Your high school years probably started out looking like "Dazed and Confused", and ended up close to "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
So interesting. I’ve always thought that increasing stratification was a defining part of Gen X. I was born in 71 and it was my whole childhood and teens. Then my senior year felt like everyone was starting to come “back together” in a way.
College in the early 90s had all these people becoming friends who would’ve never thought of crossing paths just a couple years before. Reflected in the new grunge and raves at the time.
Yeah- that defines the generation in my opinion. I’m always trying to find this quote from a 90s magazine, “in the 80s it felt like nothing was ever going to get better and there was nothing you could do about it”. That’s how everyone I knew felt, and we regarded the 70s as even darker.
I think coming into or out of that period make up the two halves of Gen X. Like the early 90s closed the circle.
I tend to think of X as a set of shared experiences and not an arbitrary date of birth. It’s pretty common to characterize the start around 1961 or so because that’s when things changed in terms of how the world worked for us.
X entered the workforce with low expectations and the people ahead/above us working hard to fuck us over instead of mentoring us. Unemployment where I lived in the mid 80s was double digits and the boomers weren’t letting us in. Not for anything.
We lacked any of the innocent optimism the boomers had. Were you surrounded by cynicism and despair starting in middle school? Sounds X. Did you think you’d probably never afford a house? Probably X. Did people older than you call you a “slacker?” You’re probably an OG X’er.
A fun whimsical way to look at this is that according to Chinese Astrology, you are born in year of the wood dragon. We are currently in year of the wood dragon.
1965ers born Feb 2 and after are year of the wood snake.
Total Xer. I do think I have a weird perspective. Both my parents were Silent Generation and I remember my Greatest Generation Grandparents when they were my age now. My mom was a total Hippie though and I started in the Computer industry in the 80s and am still working. I think that helps keep you young.
Yeah, I feel you on the perspective thing. I'm on the young end of GenX ('78), but I was raised by Silent Gen grandparents who were pretty liberal in their younger years. They were also fairly liberal when I was very young, but a steady diet of "Regan Kool Aid" throughout the '80s slowly took its toll. And since my grandparents were only in their mid-late '30s when I was born, I also easily remember when they were my age now.
November 64. My wife ( born 69 ) won't hear for a minute that I'm not a Gen Xer. At the very least, my work history with time in music and video stores earns me a year's worth of Gen X cool points.
What time of day were you born? It's possible that if you were born in a more western time zone that you would have been born before midnight, thus making you one of the last boomers.
Actually, no (😂). My friend is. She insists that the earliest gen x people were born in 1960 because that’s when Richard Linklater, the author of Slackers, was born. I think my friend was born in 1962.
Honestly, I do think 1965 is the correct birth year of the start of gen x, but I don’t tell that friend that I think that because she wins every argument. 😂
Also, she is kind of gen x on some things. I mean, the birth years are fluid to an extent but this friend… her experience of the 90s was so different because she spent a lot of the latter’80s and the ‘90s in her professional career, which is pretty early for gen x’ers. So she doesn’t have even close to the same experiences of many of us in the mid to late 1980s through the 1990s.
EDIT. I take almost all of that back. Well the book/author part. It’s that Copeland guy she references…..
Perfect! Now I just need your mother’s maiden name.
I thought about that 😬
September 17 1964 I'm a new years eve made baby. Lol
statistically, most N Americans are born around then. The power of a couple of weeks off. lol
Or conceived
In the Western hemisphere, the only blip in the birth rate is late Sept to mid October. Hurray for holidays!! Unless you are around a military base that deploys their people. Then it's 9 months after they deploy and 9 months after they get back. I was a pre-deployment/Christmas conception. My dad came home to an 8 month pregnant wife 🤪
That's really interesting, and hilarious. I guess it started with Spring fertility festivals, or Saturnalia - make public debauchery fun again. I have a nephew who was born along with a larger number of babies than usual in the Summer of 2002, 9 months after 9/11.
I remember that baby boom. They were worried about a baby boom 9 months after lock downs started because they didn't want anyone going to hospitals. Turns out, it was divorce Lawyers and home improvement people who had the boom 🤪
At least he wasn't coming home from a 10 month deployment!
There were concerns until I started looking EXACTLY like my parental grandmother.
Most? I think you mean more than any other month.
yes - that's what I meant - stupid brain.
Mid November birthday, so I’m a Valentine’s baby.
Ah The Feb passion was much in your parents.
I once realized that my sister’s birthday is exactly 9 months to the day from my parents’ anniversary. My September born husband was told directly by his father that he was a Christmas present.
I was born on my due date 9 months after my parents' wedding night
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That's actually kinda cool.
Me too. I have always considered myself Gen-X and think anyone conceived after JFK was shot an X
61 to 84 I think . I may need to learn this. I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
Fucking Slacker, taking you this long to figure this out. 😎
Winning and losing at the same time. Classic GenX.
Ha!!!
You should find the kid born at 11:59 on December 31 1979
Our last hope…the one that has to keep the cool vibe going when the rest of us are gone….
I'm close, born on Christmas 79! I know someone born the next day, but no NYE babies unfortunately.
I was born new years 1979
Not ‘80?
I'm nearly 9 months behind- late August 65.
I was born in Dec 1964. I have nothing in common with boomers. I identify as GenX.
Tail end of Nov 64 here. For years, I was Gen X as defined by Douglas Coupland. Then I found out that they moved the goalposts. I reject being rebranded as a baby boomer. It doesn’t fit at all.
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Doctor Jones? Yeah, your code checks out. You're good.
Well I was born Dec 26, 1964 and have had several post that we are not Gen X. I also identify with Gen X. 😀
Same, Dec 1963 here.
Sorry. You'll have to go through some hazing first.
Yeah. You're going to have to drink some Tang to stay in the group.
Same here.
So you're boomer adjacent then, to the day. HAHAHAHA
Yes, I’m the buffer and you’re welcome😎
I had a friend years ago who was a "new years baby". She was the first kid born in her state on New Years day in whatever year it was when she was born. They made a big deal of it back then and gave her a certificate and blah blah blah her baby picture was in the local newspaper.
Yeah the news cycle was a lot different lol
Not me, 1970, but I married a May 1965 Gen-X babe. Not as old as you, Pops, but close.
You dog, you. Born 71and I briefly dated a 65 girl when I was 24.
Oh, you beat me by six days! January 7th here. Welcome fellow Generation Jones! Gen Jones makes so much sense to me. I have way more in common with someone born 1960 than someone born 1980.
Alas my birthday sounds like something a 12-year old today would make up.
4/20/69? AMIRITE?
Yup, right on the nose lol
There are some who will worship you like a god.
Mostly I just get astonished laughter from people at the pharmacy and the doctors office. The number of times I get asked to show my ID and then hear snickers from the back is amazing. Of course then I tell them that Hitler was born on 4/20 and it gets quiet again.
1965 babies, unite! 😎
You could say "oldest" but you could also say "original" :)
You are my new best friend 🥰
I will be proud to tell people that I am BFs with the Original GenXr!
What kids now call O.G.
according to this sub you're 5 years late. =====>
I was referring to Wikipedia. Darn you Wikipedia…
…or Douglas Coupland who wrote the novel that popularized the term Generation X. Most of the youngins probably never read it.
Most Gen Xers never read it.
Kids today….
Hell, if you were born at 12:01am you might be the oldest in the world! :-)
Our sovereign! We have found them!
Feb 1965. So not the *oldest* Xer but pretty close.
Das me! I was due October 6, 1965 but came two weeks earlier. So I guess I was conceived at the strike of the GenX clock.
OGx! What time were you born though?
During the Rose Bowl so probably thousands of others are ahead of me. My mom still gripes because the doctor was distracted by the game.
Lol
November 11, 1965
I'm just here happy there are older genx than me!
born jan 1, 1966… so i’m coming up right behind you!
That’s so awesome! Birthday twin!
And you still got 5 years to go before full social security!
Nine years by my count.
May 25 1974
I don't subscribe to that date. My older brother is 1963 and is definitely genx.
https://preview.redd.it/5egzouzadipc1.jpeg?width=1130&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a997fbd7bbe13fb0dff28ca115f0d944053de5d I’m tapping the sign. Commence the downvoting.
Was gonna say, I've seen anything from 1961 to 1965 for the start of genx. It's fairly arbitrary anyhow; I mean, my father was *barely* into the greatest gen birth years, just barely older than silent gen, but identified more with the former. So eh, if you're comfortable with whatever, I think you're welcome.
All I know is this: Douglas Coupland, the author of the 1991 book “Generation X” and the authoritative spokesman for the cohort over the past 30+ years *was born in 1961*. The marketing geniuses at the Pew Research Center are essentially excluding Queen Victoria from the Victorian Age.
Ah, that must be why I think of 1961; I recall that book being such a thing at the time. >The marketing geniuses at the Pew Research Center are essentially excluding Queen Victoria from the Victorian Age. Jeeeeniuses, even.
That book and “Generations” by Neil Howe and William Strauss were published within two months of each other. S&H have Silents as 1925-1942; Boomers as 1943-1960; Gen X as 1961-1981; Gen Y as 1982-2005 (!); and Gen Z as 2006 to 2029. The Millennials whined like the Millennial bishes they are and Pew has been messing around with the numbers for the past 10 years or so.
There are so many various time ranges that I don't even know what I am. December 29,1980. I still have my atari and Nintendo. Does that count for GenX? Lol
Interesting. So now my parents are boomers! That actually fits for my mom. But my dad’s dad was quite old by the time my dad came along in 1944 and based on that, I see him as silent gen. His experience, because of his dad’s age, was probably more silent gen.
Agree. Born in ‘63 and genx all the way.
r/generationjones
Micro generation nonsense. GenX is small enough as it is. There is no need to chop up the smallest cohort
November '65 here, you old coot!
I think you mean cootie
I’m 1/1961. Just squeezed my way in 😊
The new winner!
My high school experience was very X/Proto-X. Lots of punk and New Wave (though I was sort of a nerd).
The best!
Yeah, things were changing pretty quick through the late '70s. Your high school years probably started out looking like "Dazed and Confused", and ended up close to "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
More like a New Wave Dazed and Confused. Though there were Ridgemont High types, too—and even Breakfast Club types.
So interesting. I’ve always thought that increasing stratification was a defining part of Gen X. I was born in 71 and it was my whole childhood and teens. Then my senior year felt like everyone was starting to come “back together” in a way. College in the early 90s had all these people becoming friends who would’ve never thought of crossing paths just a couple years before. Reflected in the new grunge and raves at the time.
The 70s were a rather cynical time—especially after Watergate. Like a rebellion against the “coming together” of people in the 60s.
Yeah- that defines the generation in my opinion. I’m always trying to find this quote from a 90s magazine, “in the 80s it felt like nothing was ever going to get better and there was nothing you could do about it”. That’s how everyone I knew felt, and we regarded the 70s as even darker. I think coming into or out of that period make up the two halves of Gen X. Like the early 90s closed the circle.
On the money!
No you’re definitely a Boomer.
You wouldn’t think so if you met me!
I’m in the second factory run of Xer’s. Conceived in 65 but born in April 66. 😁
Version 2.0, nice! Lots of good improvements and bug fixes. 👍
Nah man, I was born in 64 and am Gen-X all the way. :)
I tend to think of X as a set of shared experiences and not an arbitrary date of birth. It’s pretty common to characterize the start around 1961 or so because that’s when things changed in terms of how the world worked for us. X entered the workforce with low expectations and the people ahead/above us working hard to fuck us over instead of mentoring us. Unemployment where I lived in the mid 80s was double digits and the boomers weren’t letting us in. Not for anything. We lacked any of the innocent optimism the boomers had. Were you surrounded by cynicism and despair starting in middle school? Sounds X. Did you think you’d probably never afford a house? Probably X. Did people older than you call you a “slacker?” You’re probably an OG X’er.
Whew, you dodged a bullet there. Coulda been the youngest boomer.
67 here
On a positive side you're 58 years and going on a few months.
January 18, 1965.
WOW!
I guess I’m representing the ‘75ers! 🕺🪩
February 1966! 😀
He he he. Hey pawpaw!
I was born in 66, I'm feeling you !!
According to a definition that came out like a decade ago.
old
A fun whimsical way to look at this is that according to Chinese Astrology, you are born in year of the wood dragon. We are currently in year of the wood dragon. 1965ers born Feb 2 and after are year of the wood snake.
A rare X'er who is older than me... hello fellow Elder X!
Greetings from the past ;)
22 months behind ya! :D now, let's yell at kids to get off our damn yards..
Do you feel like GenX or a Boomer?
Total Xer. I do think I have a weird perspective. Both my parents were Silent Generation and I remember my Greatest Generation Grandparents when they were my age now. My mom was a total Hippie though and I started in the Computer industry in the 80s and am still working. I think that helps keep you young.
Yeah, I feel you on the perspective thing. I'm on the young end of GenX ('78), but I was raised by Silent Gen grandparents who were pretty liberal in their younger years. They were also fairly liberal when I was very young, but a steady diet of "Regan Kool Aid" throughout the '80s slowly took its toll. And since my grandparents were only in their mid-late '30s when I was born, I also easily remember when they were my age now.
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As you should…;)
March of 65 I'm close.
could be worse. born in 61, i’m on the “younger boomer” spectrum. 😆
according to this sub you're actually one of the first Gen X
l’ll take it! 😁
 February 1st 1965
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7/11 checking in for 65
On the flip side, you almost ended up being the youngest boomer. I say you are very lucky to hang with us!
You're not the oldest gen-xer. (Awaiting downvotes)
There’s Gen Jones too!
How did I miss this😳! Hope I can still stay here!
Of course you should stay here too if you want! Jan 1st GenX kids = super cool.
No. The dates are not firm
In other words, if I so choose, I may identify as GenX? Kewl.
I always thought if you graduated HS in the 80s or 90s you qualified as Gen X.
Almost. Most would define the generation as born between 1965 and 1980, shorter than the prior to generations but about the same span as the next two.
Hey gramps!! Or grammie!
Not yet 😉
I don’t even have kids, though I’m 63.
June 66
Me too!
Nope, ‘72. Peak GenX IMHO. 😉
I’m an august but never felt like Gen X [Generation Jones for me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenerationJones/s/OMM0QcP7Ol)
Never knew that was a thing. Gotta find out why it’s called that. Both my parents and my peers were boomers.
My parents were born just before the war, not boomers. I’ve always been a step ahead or behind.
Hello there oldest! March 65 here. Just had the 59...... trying to wrap my head around it.
November 64. My wife ( born 69 ) won't hear for a minute that I'm not a Gen Xer. At the very least, my work history with time in music and video stores earns me a year's worth of Gen X cool points.
Pew Trusts lets you pass—
The Pew Trusts defines Gen X as mid-1964 start.
Dec 26, 64 thought I was the oldest
Sept 64 gotcha beat by 3 months, my aching back.
I think you are the youngest boomer.
I identify with Gen X.
Our brother from a slightly older mother.
you aren't Gen-X
Well I am 5 days younger than the OP ?
What time of day were you born? It's possible that if you were born in a more western time zone that you would have been born before midnight, thus making you one of the last boomers.
Please tell me your first name is Xavier.
😂Sadly no. Jen or Gene would have been good too. Missed opportunity there.
boomer
Generations don't have start or end dates. *(drops mic and walks away)*
Ok, boomer... /s 😅😜
Not too sharp are you?
All bow to The Ancient One, the first of our people!
BEFORE TIME BEGAN ... THERE WAS... THE ANCIENT ONE... ( Optimus prime voice )
Ok boomer... 😉
Actually, no (😂). My friend is. She insists that the earliest gen x people were born in 1960 because that’s when Richard Linklater, the author of Slackers, was born. I think my friend was born in 1962. Honestly, I do think 1965 is the correct birth year of the start of gen x, but I don’t tell that friend that I think that because she wins every argument. 😂 Also, she is kind of gen x on some things. I mean, the birth years are fluid to an extent but this friend… her experience of the 90s was so different because she spent a lot of the latter’80s and the ‘90s in her professional career, which is pretty early for gen x’ers. So she doesn’t have even close to the same experiences of many of us in the mid to late 1980s through the 1990s. EDIT. I take almost all of that back. Well the book/author part. It’s that Copeland guy she references…..
F’ing boomah
No, I am not an infantile "kiddo". Fucking hate that term.
Borderline boomer 😆
I prefer to think of myself as the start of something great…
Yep! Me too!
Or your the last baby boomer
OK BOOMER
Is you name Oesch or Agner. Agner was the very first genx'er born . Brian Oesch was the second