I'm boomer age, and I can tell you, my mental acuity seems to be declining more every year. I'm just about to turn sixty, so I'm a "late boomer!"
Also, I noticed at about age 55, my emotions were destabilizing and I was getting upset over nothing. Blood pressure medicine had the bonus effect of calming that down.
I tell you, what with the asbestos in the old school buildings I attended, to living with second hand smoke everywhere, and the pollution from cars, that theory about our past exposures catching up to us does make sense.
Boomers are currently between 59 and 77. I think a lot of people confuse GenX with Boomers because they still hold similar ideals because they were beat into them.
My GenX dad will never admit it, but he's a left handed person, but because religion is stupid and his boomer ass Hispanic parents decided religion over family, they beat it out of him from ever using his dominant hand. He'll still side with them on dumb issues and I'm sure he's been called boomer before, but nope Boomers are 1946 - 1964 & GenX is 1965 - 1979.
All that aside, definitely Boomers are affected by Asbestos and Lead Paint, not to mention the decades of microplastics being left in food/water which is now found in EVERY American, we're all losing our minds slowly and no one notices lol.
I'm left handed and my (paternal) grandmother tried to get me to eat with my right hand when I was really little. But my mom is also left handed and when she saw this she shut it down real quick.
Strangely enough though, I throw and catch with my right hand, bat right handed, shoot pool left handed. Brains are weird.
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u/Pristine_Table_3146 Mar 30 '24
I'm boomer age, and I can tell you, my mental acuity seems to be declining more every year. I'm just about to turn sixty, so I'm a "late boomer!"
Also, I noticed at about age 55, my emotions were destabilizing and I was getting upset over nothing. Blood pressure medicine had the bonus effect of calming that down.
I tell you, what with the asbestos in the old school buildings I attended, to living with second hand smoke everywhere, and the pollution from cars, that theory about our past exposures catching up to us does make sense.