GenX Dark humor…

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[WildflowersCreations]

It was literally a survival mechanism, crying wasn't an option it just made it worse.

[ryimscaith]

As a GenX, I use dark humor. I use it to see who can take it, and who's a little whiny

There's an old adage, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.". GenX has modified that adage a bit, "What doesn't kill me, had better run like hell.".

[Vaticider]

When I was 8 a lady backed into me and my bike, it bent the frame, when I got home and told my mother she smacked me for not paying attention...

[catbehindthecurtain]

Or if you absent-mindedly answer some poor unsuspecting person's innocent question with just some blunt statement of (traumatic) fact then catch the horrified 'wtf!?!' expression on their faces. That's good for a laugh too. I don't think we've (GenX) ever claimed our coping skills are healthy... have we?

[darrennew]

This is an excellent summary. The other point is that discussing it is a triumph of "look where I am now, in spite of all that."

[darkangel_]

Example of my dark humor: My parents died in 2015, and a few months later when I was talking to my maternal grandmother, she was starting to cry over the loss of my Mom (her first born). I said to her, "Well there is one good thing about all of this." She asked what it was, and I replied, "It's two less people to Christmas shop for." My grandma started laughing, and said she thought about making a similar joke, but she thought I would be upset. I had to remind her, that in our family, we all love dark humor.

[SlushboxHR]

The glint in your eye with the “that would be interesting” at the end was probably the most GenX thing about this.

[lilithcumswelltm]

I get this completely. I was an orphan foster kid and was on the streets by age 15 so my humor actually saved my life because if you can make a gangster laugh they keep you around. Also I wss vulnerable as a little girl so protecting myself physically was a problem. My words and story telling entertained the criminals. Also think I had angels 😇

[brianwarshow]

I died one time when I was 7. Mom told me to walk it off. So I did.

[Charlie_B.]

There’s no crying in Gen X. Laugh it off, walk it off and carry on.

[renatoruiz]

Take away dark humor from GenX and the world burns.

[CheshyLARK]

When people look at me like, “Why are you laughing at what happened to you? That was awful!”, when I recount certain things humorously, I always say, “Look, I can laugh about it or I can cry about it. I’d rather laugh.”. Because, seriously, a lot of dark things happened to me in my childhood, but I won’t let any of it defeat me. Younger generations would be in therapy the rest of their lives if they lived through a fraction of what Gen-Xers went through on a daily basis.

[loriachaddon]

So much truth, right there.
Raise your hands if you have suppressed and repressed a h**l of a lot of darkness and rage to make life a little easier on those around us.
The same goes for those of us who have worked in Emergency services.
Robert A. Heinlein wrote in 'Stranger in a Strange Land': Michael - "I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting."

[TheKrispyfort]

Had a psychiatrist ask me about childhood traumas, and so I started listing them chronologically.

He eventually puts up his hands in surrender saying "stop. I've heard enough. Just stop it".
Me: but I'm only up to three. I've got another 27 years to go.

He writes a letter back to my regular doctor saying that I have "fantastical tales of childhood"

From there I have decided that statement will be the title of my autobiography

"Fantastical tales of childhood and other equally unbelievable events that actually happened"

What do you all think?

[Archangel]

Us Gen Xr's faced death on an almost daily basis. Of course we used dark humor to laugh it off.

[googletakesovertheworld]

That is why Gen X is so sarcastic and loves dark humor. Trauma has to be dealt with somehow and we choose to make fun of our pain and laugh through it

[canadianpatriot]

The ones who couldn’t get over it, and joke about it, are the ones that become serial killers.

[baldbastardo]

I'm 50, was born behind the iron curtain and we immigrated to Canada in the early 80s when immigration wasn't ubiquitous and "Commies" were hated.

Humour is cathartic and a great coping mechanism. If you'd rather we act out then you're divorced from reality.

[jameslucas]

Several GenX did let that rage out. They ended up in military serves, prison, or cemetery.

[kellidinit]

And this is why I was just un-phased by the pandemic. I just expect bad things to happen, and then roll with it best I can, joking myself through it. Also, I just like to be left alone. 😂😂