>>38312234For people her age, the first major event many remember are a terrorist attack where there was mass hysteria in the aftermath, followed by more disasters, recession, and other threats brought up on the news daily. And that's before even going into the specifics of her life...
Imagine how the kids who grew up during COVID will be. Scared to even interact face to face. Things are pretty fucked.
>>38312487People back then were also told "grow up". Go to work, go to war, don't think about your own worries because you had a family to feed and nation to serve. Mental illness wasn't cared about. But nobody thought it out of the ordinary when a veteran started screaming in the middle of the night, drinking, or beating their wife.
Or when a woman just did cocaine regularly. Plus nearly everyone smoked like a chimney.