We call it conversation/socializing. And if I ask you a question it shows that I respect your opinion/intellect/knowledge on the subject. Google might hold all the answers, but not all the answers are right. Your experience is more valuable and you might have found an easier or better way.

One. Was totally anorexic in college in the 90s.

Am I wrong, though?

The joy of spreading knowledge and letting you know that we DO know how you feel, and we do understand what you are going through because we have been there. We came out the other side of the shite (albeit a lot of us were damaged in the process) and you will too.

because were aware what is offensive, and done with malicious intent

No one had/has it worse. We just have it different. A lot of mental illnesses were not recognised in my youth, you were just 'a problem child' or 'a little shite' as my mother would put it. Sure we had some things but you didn't want to be labelled with them or you'd end up in an institution (like I did). It was the same with learning difficulties, we didn't have the labels, you were just stupid. Nowadays things are better understood and still being explored, but you have your own struggles, much different to ours but no less difficult. I think you'd have to go back a good 50 years to comfortably say 'They definitely had it worse'.

Flying cars we were supposed to have them by 2015 according to the film Back to the future.

It's an acronym for "Greatest Of All Time".

Gen X: I'd say we had a lot of freedom and independence. I would get home from school and immediately go out with my friends and not come back home until way after dark. We had no cell phones, no pagers, no internet. My parents would have no way of contacting me, and they were fine with it.

As Gen X, we grew up in a time 'in-between worlds'. Before being called 'Gen X', we were called the 'Alienated Youth'. A time of confusion. What we were being told about the world wasn't what we were seeing. We wanted to make a change and fix things but discovered the older generation had stripped us of our power. So we shouted a lot but didn't know how to organise into a proper movement (Probably because we couldn't agree on details). After a while the problems just... disappeared, nobody spoke about them, did that mean they were fixed? No, but we had to live our lives as well. We watched the next generation come up and start making some noise and it resonated deep within us. We remembered things... Electric vehicles, paper packaging, energy saving lightbulbs... We cared about the environment too! We had Race riots, and marches, and strikes! Gen Xers are divided, confused. Stuck between the need to survive and the need for change. Too soft for Boomers, too hard for Millennials.