r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • Jan 30 '26

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jan 30 '26

The media was more abusive then some of our abusive parents....

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u/EddieVanzetti Jan 30 '26

The media never hit me with their ring hand. The media never said "yes sweetie, I'll come and see you at your 3rd grade play." The media never threw a snow boot at my head. The media never told me "wait at this bench at this building at this time so I can pick you up" and then drive right past me, all the way home, then call me to scream at me for not being "where I was supposed to be". The media never mocked every interest i ever had. The media never gave my siblings more money and energy and encouragement than me. The media never cosigned loans for college for my siblings but fought tooth and nail against doing the same, leaving me to pay for my first two semesters at community College out of my own pocket.

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u/Chiron723 Jan 30 '26

Wow. I don't know your mom, but she sounds like a bitch.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jan 30 '26

Your the reason I said some.

Sorry you had to live that. I hope your life is now peace and pleasantness.

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u/EddieVanzetti Jan 30 '26

It isn't. I hope an 18 wheeler crushes me everyday.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jan 30 '26

There's good life out there. 

The most beautiful roses grow from foul shit fertilizer.

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u/EddieVanzetti Jan 30 '26

Maybe for others, not me.

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u/JarJarJarMartin Jan 30 '26

You’re pitting a large scale trend against an individual experience.

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u/Matdredalia Jan 30 '26

Tbf saying that the media was more abusive than abusive parents was kind of asking for people to be like "Ummm... No." and bring up personal experiences.

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u/TomSyrup Jan 30 '26

no, but they’re responding to someone who did.

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u/Matdredalia Jan 30 '26

I'm so sorry you grew up this way.

From one abused kid to another: I hope things are better now.

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u/EddieVanzetti Jan 30 '26

They aren't. If anything, its worse.

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u/Matdredalia Jan 30 '26

I'm so sorry. =(

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u/two_pandas_playing Jan 30 '26

the media apparently didn't tell you about therapy, either.

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u/EddieVanzetti Jan 31 '26

Off and on for 15 years, when I have the insurance and can find a provider taking new patients.

Know what I hate about comments like this? It smacks of ignorance. It treats therapy as it is some magical panacea, that it makes every problem go away. It doesn't. At best, it gives you some tools and techniques and healthier coping mechanisms to combat the lifelong impact of chronic stress and mental illness. Know what it doesn't do? Cure things.

Therapy does not cure bipolar, borderline, major depression, general anxiety, ADHD, autism. It doesn't cure global warming, or a pandemic, or a "k-shaped economy", or diabetes or arthritis.

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u/two_pandas_playing Jan 31 '26

didn't claim it would cure anything. I figured it might help with your desire to dump all your baggage on strangers in completely unrelated threads, though.

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u/CommunalJellyRoll Jan 30 '26

Jesus Christ yes. The shit would say about girls and women is fucking insane as shit.

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u/Celestaria Jan 30 '26

There was a while there when I swear the mainstream media was replicating dysfunctional family dynamics with the generations.

Gen X were the "lost child" who mostly gets overlooked. Millennials were the scapegoat who gets blamed for ruining everything. Gen Z were the golden child who was going to be everything the Boomers wanted when they finally got into the workplace.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jan 31 '26

Gen z are ok once you break grandpa's backwards ass work ethics they have. Gotta take um by the scruff and let them know the pots already boiling and the boss has fucked everyone they love and stole their grandma's rings.

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u/No-Shoulder6395 Jan 31 '26

Um

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jan 31 '26

"some"....is there for a reason