Fellow GenXers, ever feel invisible? .......

[Blue_In_AK]

84. I understand.

For what it's worth, I don't think we're any better than you at all. We older boomers were just fortunate - or more accurately unfortunate - to have come of age during a very tumultuous time with the assassinations, urban riots, the war/draft, (more positively) the music, etc. The stark difference between the America of 1960 and the America of 1970 was probably not matched until 2000-2010, because, as we all know, "9-11 changed everything."

One thing I've observed in my own family, though, is that my youngest daughter, who is Millennial (born in 1985), seems a lot more politically concerned than my two gen-x girls, who are 41 and 36. They're Democrats, they vote and all, but they just don't seem to care as much about political issues as the younger one, and they kind of roll their eyes at me when I get all wound out about something, like, "oh, mom, calm down." Does this represent a general attitude among your generation or is it just that my two older girls are busy raising their kids and can't be bothered?