As someone who is chronologically a Millennial I would NOT want to grow up in the same time period (1950s to early 1980s) my parents did. Society was nowhere near as nice or as prosperous as people would like to believe:
Mouth off to your parents? Go to jail.
LGBT people? Go to jail or an institution (not a nice one either).
Were you married? If not and you were in your 20s or older society treated you with suspicion at best.
Badmouth your politicians/government/America? Go to jail.
Did you need a job? You probably didn't get hired if you were female or a minority. Yes, they had antidiscrimination laws even back in those days but they weren't enforced very well. 'Sexual harassment' was a relatively unknown issue to Baby Boomers in their 20s and even 30s. Yes, unions were more popular than today but the wages weren't as good as people like to think. The average production worker wage was the equivalent of making $11 - $14 USD per hour. This sounds good but consider that many families only had one person (usually the husband) working and that was tough to support a family on.
Domestic violence was much higher than today along with the general crime rate. (The murder rate of the 1970s was probably about at least double what it is today!) There was no equal enforcement of the law as far as families go, BTW (and yes, the government DID poke its business into your personal life back then) and parental rights didn't necessarily exist like they do today.
If you were attending primary school and a teacher had a problem with you or didn't like you, it was THEIR word that was taken, not the students'. Outside of basically beating a kid senseless schools had the right to discipline students in any manner for any reason no matter whether it happened or not. (Punch your teacher in the face and you went to jail!) Student protests were dealt with much more aggressively than today.
People's health was not as good. Anyone here had any sort of arthroscopic procedure done? (It's very common with orthopedic surgeries) That really didn't exist in my parent's time. Stem cell research, composite body parts/joints, many pharmaceuticals (and many other natural remedies as well), over the counter medications, complex surgeries, and many other medical treatments and products simply didn't exist in my parent's time. Medical privacy and most patient rights didn't really exist either.
Since this is an Aspie forum I will also say that many psychiatrists, therapists and so forth simply didn't have experience dealing with Aspergers or autistic people. Quite a few were in fact hostile to us (medical staff were not necessarily nice back in those days) and most Aspies in those days didn't have any sort of community or support to help them out.
Obviously we didn't have the Internet or PCs in every home but I won't rehash too much on this topic.
Even many consumer goods we take for granted today mostly didn't exist in the 1950s - 1980s:
Microwaves
Video cameras
Digital Clocks/Displays
Flat Screen TVs (These were starting to appear in the 80s if I understand my history right)
Electronic Garage Door Openers
Many cordless power tools (6v - 8v batteries were the most powerful you could buy basically)
Cordless vacuums outside of dustbusters
Anything made of titanium or any other expensive/exotic metal
I could go on and on, but my point is that it's wishful thinking to believe that the Boomer times were better.
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Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 107 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 131 of 200
You seem to have both neurodiverse and neurotypical traits.
24 Sep 2017, 1:07 pm
...I dunno. Some pretty bad things happened to me 
