What it’s like to stand in the Sliver of the Spotlight on Gen X

I’ve written less in the past five years than I did previously in my life, and yet more ideas, memories, experiences to share have been pressing from within me outwards.

Right now I am living at the edge of an extra-weird zeitgeist: I’m Gen X, and people have suddenly remembered I and my feral, drug-addled, ADHD late-diagnosed, overworked, underslept, caring for elders and younger at the same time cohorts exist. We are collectively annoyed by this, but here we are. I am at the age where I am subject to youth-towards older…