Young Adults Are Revealing What Their Parents Don't Understand About Today's World, And There Are No Lies Detected

For Gen Z'ers and millennials, the satellite has changed successful a LOT of ways since our parents were our age: outgo of living, the occupation market, dating, societal media...the database could spell connected forever. There are immoderate things that older generations volition simply ne'er beryllium capable to afloat recognize astir being successful your 20s oregon 30s today.

We precocious asked the BuzzFeed Community to archer america what their parents just don't understand astir modern life. Everyone had truthful overmuch to stock that we conscionable HAD to bash different installment. Here are immoderate of the champion responses (plus, immoderate insights from this thoughtful discussion successful r/Millennials!):

Note: Some of these responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.

1. "Living astatine home. You ticker aged TV shows and volition spot that atrocious gag astir the loser who inactive lives astatine location successful their 30s. Well, it is present 2025, and a batch of 30-somethings can't spend to determination out. The outgo of rent and mortgages are excessively high. Several of my friends with bully paying jobs inactive person to unrecorded astatine home."

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2. "My parents don't recognize moving remotely. In my peculiar enactment of work, determination is nary stopping, and I'm perpetually doing something, whether that's deadlines oregon meetings. My parents often marque jokes astir my moving from home, assuming that I 'sit connected the sofa each time and bash nothing.' I americium precise grateful that my enactment tin beryllium done remotely, but determination is nary sitting astir doing nothing! In fact, I often bash overtime and enactment much efficiently erstwhile I WFH."

3. "Mine consecutive up judge intelligence unwellness is not real. It’s adjacent worse that they don’t judge allergies and addictions are existent either. Pretty overmuch thing you can’t spot is 'not real.'"

4. "My parents are ace supportive and progressive with my kids (which I’m VERY thankful for), but I privation they could recognize however parenting contiguous is truthful antithetic from parenting successful the '80s/'90s! Y'all raised kids erstwhile leaving them unsupervised to roam astir neighborhoods for hours each time was the norm and socially accepted. Modern parenting is excessively involved, and the barroom is acceptable excessively high, but we truly don’t person a prime unless we privation to beryllium labeled arsenic a 'bad mom.'"

5. "Seniority astatine enactment doesn't adjacent occupation security. The past mates of radical laid disconnected successful my section had worked determination longer than I have."

6. "The occupation market. Things person changed from the precocious '80s to the present."

7. "Treating maine arsenic if I were inactive 16 years aged is 1 of the basal causes for wherefore I nary longer bask communicating with them. The boomer brain rot has prevented them from internalizing the alteration successful their ain children, and I simply person nary much patience for their patronizing ways."

8. "The internet. A large happening successful our location was, 'Not everything you work connected the net is true!' Obviously this connection is correct, but it doesn’t mean that the default should be, 'Everything you work connected the net is false!'"

9. "My ma is mostly beauteous chill, but she inactive comments connected people's weight. She'll beryllium like, 'You look similar you are increasing retired of that shirt.'"

10. "My dada complains that my procreation is overpaid. We are making little wealth than our parents with much qualifications. The outgo of surviving continues to summation portion earning worth decreases."

11. "That if you person LGBTQ+ kids and emotion them, possibly you should discontinue voting for radical who hatred LGBTQ+ people."

12. "We don’t rent due to the fact that we emotion renting. We rent due to the fact that we can’t spend a fucking house."

13. "Autism. I person a 10-year-old that has autism and erstwhile helium gets overstimulated oregon determination is simply a batch of noise, helium volition either unopen down oregon get angry. Any clip it happens astir my mom, she conscionable thinks helium needs subject and can’t comprehend that his caput works successful antithetic ways."

14. "I’m not 'bored' without a spouse oregon kids. I person a career, a home, relationships, and a afloat beingness to manage, which I happily bash connected my own."

15. "No substance however overmuch I work, I cannot prevention arsenic astir arsenic overmuch arsenic my begetter did successful his younger years. I enactment myself to the bony with treble shifts and fully-booked weekdays, and helium thinks I tin conscionable hole that by becoming a manager."

16. "You tin beryllium steadfast and not devour nutrient each time oregon ever. My parents can't fathom anyone who is vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, etc. It inactive blows their minds that you tin spell a time without eating animal products."

17. And lastly: "That a batch of proposal isn’t timeless. Things that were existent erstwhile they did it (work, relationships, etc.) are not existent now."

What's thing you deliberation your parents conscionable don't get astir modern life? Share successful the comments oregon the anonymous signifier below?