I was born too late!

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I hate to say this, but I wish I was born in an earlier decade, even the 1920s or 1930s generation. Older people today are grateful to have had their life before, even if they are near dying so they don't have to be around to see the major collapse that's going to happen in the meantime. And civilization seemed better than now in some sense when those old people were younger than it is today. That's an existential con of being younger in this particular era. The whole world, particularly Western civilization, is going to collapse and it will be Hell and the only other alternative would be that this world ended completely. I know if you are religious you have heard about Revelation and the Great Tribulation. I'm not really religious, but that is validating and adding on top of it too. So even there won't be a more positive "aftermath" for the civilization struggling to survive today.

It is not unrealistic to look at America now and wonder if we are on the brink of some form of collapse.
Our country has, however, survived or struggled through some desperate times and survived.
The Revolutionary War.
The Civil War.
The Spanish Influenza epidemic.
The Mexican American War.
World War I.
World War II.
The Vietnam War.
9/11.
The AIDS Epidemic.
And many others.
Each crisis has cost us lives, caused emotional, spiritual turmoil, and changed American culture forever for the survivors.
So will this.
We are living through another crisis of our history, and those who survive will look back with bitter memories of their losses, yet pride for having survived.

I think that it’s human nature to be reminiscent of when you were younger, which is why old people like to think that way. I can already imagine myself being 50+ and longing for the days of me being much younger. Hell, right now there’s a lot of time frames and great memories I wish I could re live. I listen to a lot of music from 2007-2016 just for that reason.

Music from the ‘60’s!

As far as my interests are concerned, I should have been born about 20 years earlier.

Clive Barker’s box and a H P Lovecraft quote!
Have you read Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ or ‘Good Omens’?

Terry Pratchett
I like Michael Slade, too!

I feel like I was born too early. There is so much more awareness about ASD and so much more social support for younger people who are in school or just starting college or in the work force, and it is going to continue to improve in the coming decade or two. And there is much more guidance for people on the Spectrum to help them find what academic and career fields they can be successful in.

I'm almost 40, and I've never been married and have no career. I wasted my time in college and the financial aid allotted to me for getting a bachelor's degree because I didn't know what I wanted to do back then and I never had any proper guidance. My degree is useless and I don't have the means to go back and get another one. Its too late to fix my life now.

Born in the twenties might have made you cannon fodder for the worst slaughter in history.
Or not; you may have been born wealthy, or 4-F (or whatever the military labeled unfit).
I can't think of a more worrisome scenario than Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo rising, and being 18...

Me, as a "person of color" who needs meds and likes tech, I think being born in the late 60s was fine.
Now my family was awful, but you don't get everything.

In addition there was a LOT of Nazi sympathizers in America during Hitler’s control.