The Gen Z Thread

[JadeFarms]

This thread has become a

Me and Emma are best friends lol. We’re not being serious.

 

[chickentrains]

Oooh, another Gen Z'er! Hi there, I'm a Senior! I've been raising chickens since I was very little, when my dad started me out with a flock of Buff Orpingtons. How did you guys get started out?

My dad got me chickens

 

[JadeFarms]

Oooh, another Gen Z'er! Hi there, I'm a Senior! I've been raising chickens since I was very little, when my dad started me out with a flock of Buff Orpingtons. How did you guys get started out?

Welcome!
I was started out when I was six, I had buff Orpingtons, Delewares and a barred rock.

 

[cinnamoncockatiel]

Well you tell me why you're not attracted to people. I would term that anatural because sex drive and not diying alone is what drives any common human being into seeking a relationship. But your reasons maybe something personal, underlying, something to do with your childhood or how you've been treated; in every "label" there are exceptions to the rule.
Which is why I think labeling is wrong, my grandmother used to say that when she was young (we're talking about 1920-30) no one suffered from depression because no one had invented the term so no one really mulled over if they were depressed or not, maybe you got sad and then you brushed it off and continued life. These new generations (and I include mine) have had been so sheltered, have been through little hardship (not like in the past, my great grandmother went through the Mexican Revolution, she lived in Mexico City and said people dropped down dead in the streets because of hunger; both my great grandmother and grandmother had their husband's abandon them because they had another wife; my grandmother studied and graduated from biological pharmaceutical chemistry and worked several jobs to raise 4 kids), that we crumble at the littlest of problems. Not saying that there aren't people that still go through real hardship, but in general life has become easier.

Smaller blocks of text, please.

 

[Eden83_haaretz]

I am Gray aro/ace.

First, what's aro/ace?
Second, are you saying you are aromantic because you are gay?

 

[chickentrains]

Well you tell me why you're not attracted to people. I would term that anatural because sex drive and not diying alone is what drives any common human being into seeking a relationship. But your reasons maybe something personal, underlying, something to do with your childhood or how you've been treated; in every "label" there are exceptions to the rule.
Which is why I think labeling is wrong, my grandmother used to say that when she was young (we're talking about 1920-30) no one suffered from depression because no one had invented the term so no one really mulled over if they were depressed or not, maybe you got sad and then you brushed it off and continued life. These new generations (and I include mine) have had been so sheltered, have been through little hardship (not like in the past, my great grandmother went through the Mexican Revolution, she lived in Mexico City and said people dropped down dead in the streets because of hunger; both my great grandmother and grandmother had their husband's abandon them because they had another wife; my grandmother studied and graduated from biological pharmaceutical chemistry and worked several jobs to raise 4 kids), that we crumble at the littlest of problems. Not saying that there aren't people that still go through real hardship, but in general life has become easier.

Thats why people who are like that are different. They don't have that drive to BE with somebody. Everybody is different, we all have diffrences. So yes, it makes total sense that a group of people just don't have that desire to be with somebody.

Nobody suffered from depression, because up until the past 5 years, the word depression, or mental illness, was sheltered, ignored. "more" people suffer these days not because we're weak, its because back then, people who suffered, didn't reach out.

"in general life has become easier".. yes, but we don't crumble at the littliest problems. People with depression, or mental illness are chemically unbalanced. My goodness, I'd LOVE to not "crumble at the littliest of problems".. but thats how my brain was wired. Sorry

 

[cinnamoncockatiel]

First, what's aro/ace?
Second, are you saying you are aromantic because you are gay?

ace - asexual
aro- aromantic

What does that even mean? Explain.

 

[Eden83_haaretz]

Thats why people who are like that are different. They don't have that drive to BE with somebody. Everybody is different, we all have diffrences. So yes, it makes total sense that a group of people just don't have that desire to be with somebody.

Nobody suffered from depression, because up until the past 5 years, the word depression, or mental illness, was sheltered, ignored. "more" people suffer these days not because we're weak, its because back then, people who suffered, didn't reach out.

"in general life has become easier".. yes, but we don't crumble at the littliest problems. People with depression, or mental illness are chemically unbalanced. My goodness, I'd LOVE to not "crumble at the littliest of problems".. but thats how my brain was wired. Sorry

Wait I'm not making you less because you get depression, if that's what you think I said. I went through depression when I was a teenager, thought of committing suicide even. What you should take out of the whole "my grandmother said" is that when you put your problems into perspective you can look at it and say "hey I really don't have it so bad".
Heck when I was in high school I was walking by one day off to one of my classes and a classmate (didn't even talk to him or try to befriend him) passed me by and said "damn it would you just take that smile off your face?" for no reason at all; another time a senior took interest in me and asked me of I would be his girlfriend so I said yes (the guy was very decent, nice; did't even get to kissing him because I was really shy and the relationship didn't last long specially when he wrote me a romantic letter on how he wanted a romantic/sexual relationship with me; wasn't ready for that just yet), my class mates, in one of our periods said outloud in my presence "don't even know why he'd be interested in her, she's blah" (again people I didn't even talk to, didn't hang out with, etc). Truth is one shouldn't feel bad or worry because people don't like you or are aggressive or mean towards you, they ARE TRASH, they are not worth it.
Read that you think people hate you, don't know what you've gone through what they've done, and don't expect you to tell me because you don't know me, but if people see a little light, someone who is not as rotten or miserable as they are, they will try to snuff you out.

My moto, after a lot of years of analyzing it all, is "you try to burry me, but you just don't know I'm a seed; throw all the dirt you want, you are not worth it". I will grow, I'll become better, I'll realize my dreams; you will continue to be the junk you've always been.

There will be someone that will eventually come along and see the light and enjoy and bask in it and help it grow; call it a friend, partner, girlfriend/boyfriend, husband/wife, boss, business partner; or just have to be on the watch out for people who are worth your time, attention and are like you in all the good aspects.

 

[Eden83_haaretz]

ace - asexual
aro- aromantic

What does that even mean? Explain.

Well I asked you why you thought you were aromantic and you answered gay. I've had gay friends, even lived for a while in college with a gay couple; I know and recognize people who've become bitter because they've been mistreated and I also know people who've gone through all their life without meeting the "right person", never saw that it meant that they don't wish they could find someone to have a romantic relationship with, they just hadn't found someone that generated that in them. I insist, I hate labels, they try and make everyone think that something is either wrong with them or they are a few of a small group that's alone and no one can really understand them.

I met a really nice/sweet guy in college that wanted to have a relationship with me, never felt romantic or attracted to him; actually met many guys and it was the same thing, never thought I might have a condition, just knew they weren't the right guy.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Oooh, another Gen Z'er! Hi there, I'm a Senior! I've been raising chickens since I was very little, when my dad started me out with a flock of Buff Orpingtons. How did you guys get started out?

Well I moved from Texas to WA and decided to get chickens. We started with five (straight run) chicks.

• One second gen olive egger
• One Blue wheaten Ameraucanas
• Two (brahma x bantam cochin) x bantam cochin
• And one Light Brahma x Birchen Bantam Cochin

3 weeks later we got 8 more.

• 3 Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas
• and 5 backyard mixes.

We then rehomed 5 of out 6 boys from the batch, all the Ameraucanas, and the olive Egger. We got a Cochin pullet in return. Not sure how old she was.

A few months later we got a bantam frizzle pullet. She was around 11 weeks.

Then months go by and we got 3 “pullets” Two Lav Orp, and one BR.

All were just mutts not actually what they were sold as, and what’s worse is two of The three were actually cockerels.

I also have eight more chicks coming spring...

We’ll only have five chickens they said. We’ll be able to restrain ourselves they said.