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Problems with the younger generation

pietro_21

I had a bit of a strange experience the other day it kind of reminded me of school. I'm riding my bike along a track, I slow to let two people pass.two young ish girls 18 one of whom started waving their arms about, pulling faces and making mental disability sounds at me. Although it didn't affect me much I still stop every time this happens to consider how people can be so ignorant. And how people make these judgements (to behave that way) on sight.

I've been thinking a lot about the internet lately and particularly those people who were born after it was created. I have encountered a lot of young adults around that generation, some I have spoken to seem plain rude and seem to think they know everything. I'm thinking those born in ai now will have even bigger problems and be even more complacent.

The correct terms are Digital Natives (those born after the internet was created) and AI Natives (those born after AI was born).

Maybe this sounds like I'm a bit out of touch.

  • in reply to NAS64261

    These are the things I can't do anything about, or understand why people are how they are or what they gain from doing this.  I was an 80's child born 79, I thought when I'd left school or went to University or got a job this would all stop. You'd hope that some of these extreme people get removed or excluded from society, but for that to happen something awful has to happen. Its also that there are more of them now, so its also a kind of normalisation. If you live in a major city and are viewed as 'different' its very likely you will eventually be accosted in some way if you are on the streets too long. Its more that some situations are unavoidable if your'e minding your own business going from A to B.

  • How are they judging you to have a mental disability from you simply displaying good etiquette and letting them by?? You say this happens often?

    I`d say you are just running into some A***holes in general. There are plenty of them out there unfortunately. I get what you mean though. Ive had random run-ins with a few and it can bother me and play on my mind for a long time after, even though I and I assume you havent done anything to instigate the behaviour some display

  • I am terribly sorry and shocked to read that you experienced. I won't say that the problem is the younger generation, although you remarking that they are digital natives may be part of it. Most people fortunately do not actively target people with obvious neurodiversity, but the few that do (and don't care less that they've ruined someone's day) can be found between ages 1 and 100. They're petty bullies feeling good about themselves for having a go at someone who they feel they can get away with their unacceptable and unforgiveable behaviour.


    Going back to the 80s I was in the same place. I was unaware that I was neurodivergent (the word was hardly known), but I was aware enough that I seemed to be a target of being teased. One day, walking home from school (alone), I walked into two older boys who without being provoked started to call me names. When I didn't respond they started to push me. Telling them to stop ....as if they'd politely oblige... they took it to the next level, and seconds later I found myself in a ditch overgrown with stinging nettles.

    There is some really nasty folk around, and if I was to express my sincerest feelngs about them it would be me who'd be locked up and not them.
    Being a digital native or being someone barely an adult I feel adds fuel to their feeling of impunity. They lack the social experience of facing real causes and effects, most of their 'experience' is based on stories they watch online. They might even legitimate that harassing someone in real is needed to have that real experience (I remember a front page article in the 00s where two teenagers killed a younger girl 'just' to see what it was like to see someone die). The issue is, they feel it is fair and square to do as they wish to fulfil their agenda and interests, but once they get pushed back into their boundaries they are first to accuse others of not respecting them.... WE are the older ones so WE should know better how to respond (according to their wishes), and THEY are still young and for US older it is mean to 'take it out' on someone younger.

    Whatever you try to do with someone is thinks it's ok to harass or bully, treat them like an idiot. As the saying goes, you don't argue with an idiot. And keep them at bay whenever and wherever.