I’m out of touch?!
No. It’s the children who are wrong.
If you are an American president children are always right.
And out of time as well.
But I’m outta my head when you’re not around.
Lol I’m autistic, I’ve never been in touch. I rarely understand what’s going on but I fake it really well!
I concur, but that masking brings so many other issues and stress.
I was never under the impression that I was in touch.
Same… I am on the very mild end of the autism spectrum, and had to consciously learn how to socially interact with kids my age like I was Jane Goodall studying some damn apes or something.
When I was out of time.
that kinda makes me outa my head.
when you’re not around
But did you know I was out of my head?
I’m a Millennial and I could kinda follow Gen Z humor for the most part, but then Gen alpha came along with Skibidi Toilet. That broke me, I’m… I’m done.
Is it really that much worse than the annoying orange and other random YT videos?
Not all of us liked Annoying Orange, but Annoying Orange didn’t get a Hollywood movie either.
No, but it did get a two season TV show.
The children are wrong.
This just cements how chronically online I must be, because as a millennial, I am familiar with E, Ugandan knuckles, and skibidi (watched the whole series)
Yeah gen Alpha stuff is mostly off the rails. I still keep up with the slang and general touchstones though.
The day my boss, who asked for my help, said “That’s not what GPT said” and promptly ignored my input, wasted 2 days of a customer’s time and $700 of their money (refuses to walk back his time doing what GPT said), then finally allowed me to fix the actual problem using my meat popsicle intelligence’s output, which took 14 minutes.
We’re doomed. He votes.
To answer this without a Hall & Oates reference, a younger Gen Z friend of mine was talking to me about looksmaxxing and aurafarming and I just had 0 fucking idea what he was on about.
I then realized I’m out of touch and out of time.
Looksmaxxing is manosphere shit and aurafarming is just rebranded swagger.
I’m pretty sure the latest episode of South Park explained these concepts. I’m old and miserable, so I feel asleep halfway through.
I think when I moved from not liking things younger people enjoyed to simply having no idea what they enjoy at all.
I’ve never been particularly with it on trends and such. When I was younger I knew the trends and rejected them in the spirit of youthful rebellion, aspects of my personality were defined by what and who I wasn’t.
Then I got a little older and rejected the things people slightly younger than me enjoyed. This came naturally, because I was no longer the target audience for these things it was easy to write them off as if I were.
Now I don’t even know enough to reject them. My knowledge of what younger people like seems to be about five years out of date. When something new comes along that seems irritating to me it seems to pass so quickly I don’t really have time to register it, and when I find something new I enjoy there’s apparently whole fandoms about it where (presumably… hopefully…) very young people fight about it, and they’re fighting about things I genuinely don’t have time to decipher. It’s like it all moves too fast for my vision to really gain focus, by the time I’m able to tell what I’m looking at everyone else seems to have already moved on.
I really tried to be the funny uncle for some time, but everything is already out for at least 2 years when I talk to my nephews. I recently found a funny video of people with toilet heads
No, it’s the children who are wrong.
Brother I have never once been “with it”, as the kids say, and the rock I live under gets comfier every year so I probably won’t try to change that.
Probably always been a bit out of touch. Never really enjoyed pop culture. The first time was probably around 10 when everyone started getting into social media and I was like why the fuck would you ever put your real name and face on the internet.
Every time my friends talk about whatever the new popular TV show is.
Me: “Um, I ate some edibles and watched a Law & Order marathon”.
No, it’s the children who are wrong.
As soon as I cut everyone out of my life and just started going to work coming home and gaming. I just let life pass by because it seems like too much work to be involved in it.
Get some help big dawg! Life is dope and people are too 😎
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For anyone reading, this guy is a great example of why not to serve in a military. In case your normal human aversion to hierarchy and violence isn’t enough. The abuse they put you through to shape you into something willing to kill for them (and the killing etc itself of course) has lifelong consequences.
To “redditmodssucks”, you find what you look for and there’s a lot that makes life worth living. Always for love, never from fear. I hope you find some peace and maybe even a little joy. Hope is real, good luck out there.
There is always light at the end of the tunnel you just have to want to see it. These are useless words that mean nothing to you in the moment. But do know that in the end you will come to this realisation on your own time.
Your brain will get in depressive loops and you sort of have to fake it to be able to gain the function to do thing’s that move you forward. Its like when you start working out again after years of doing nothing. Its hard and sucks and you have to spend a lot of time forcing your body into a state it doesn’t want to be in. Your brains elastic and it needs to be in a state other than depressed to see anything other than depression. Your brain only has a hammer as its tool right now, and when something happens the hammer is the only thing it can reach for. And at some point you do unfortunately have to make a conceeded effort to push through the initial barrier. Much like working out it doesn’t get easier right away, but it doesn’t get better if you don’t try. The more you don’t try the harder it gets later. And remember that doesn’t mean it gets impossible to fix ever.
You know also look into therapy or medication, you could just be chemically imbalanced or could benifit/suffer from something else. I can guess from your personality therapy will feel stupid, a lot of it will be CBT and will make you feel like a child. Really it does help, and I wish I could sell you the idea of it but explaining it makes it sound dumb. Just remember your brain only really holds on to a emotion for 8 seconds and you have become neurotic from the traumas of life which is a natural response. Your brain keeps working in loops so when you get a emotional response your brain will dwell on it, and the more you think about it you just keep refreshing that 8 second timer keeping you in a state you can’t think of alternatives. If you play league of legends its like when someone is tilting and suddenly can’t play the game properly because of their mood state. Depression for me at least was partially breaking that cycle.
And listen man I don’t want to come off as preachy or pretend to know or try to compare our two struggles. I just want you to know it is possible and you gotta fight for it like they made you fight your way through boot camp. And i can tell you got a lot of fight left in you, so pick yourself up by your boot straps and what not.
I’m not reading any of that shit thanks for wasting your time all that makes me want to kill myself more please fuck off happy joy joy people like you make me fucking sick.
Alright man
