Some of that isn’t limited to gen Z. I’ve had older coworkers make buzzer noises for correct/wrong (like those on a gameshow)
Assuming the Scooby doo one is stuff like “ruh roh”, that specific trend might be recent, but people have been doing silly voices for a while
Although a lot of it could be tiktok trends (or vines for the millenials)
About 6 years ago we were sitting on the beach and a larger wave came in out of nowhere that went say 20-25 feet further up the beach to where we were sitting, I grabbed her and my phone and said ruh-roh as she realized and stood up, didn’t have time to grab the small Bluetooth speaker we had and it got soaked and I grabbed it a few seconds after as the wave retreated. It isn’t a term I say often, but I think it was something I did back in my early twenties when there was the possibility of kids being around. Instead of yelling “oh shit” my 37 year old brain decides to sound like a cartoon dog.
I think “ruh roh” is far older than gen Z. I think the first time I ever heard it was a gen X’er. Maybe it just got more popular?
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I am almost 70. I have meowed, mooed and other sounds all my life. Recently I have found out that I have ADHD and some Autism as well. I am getting assessed.
Congrats on discovering your membership to the Cool Kids’ Club! :D We’re glad to have you.
Meow!
I had a bad habit of making “boredom noises” for years until someone pointed it out and I had to start working on it. Turns out the technical term is “verbal stimming” and it’s definitely tied to either of those.
It wasn’t a bad habit dude, it was just your natural way of regulating your nervous system
I hear that, but I deserve for my nervous system to be regulated, too. Just because clicking a pen calms someone down doesn’t mean they should do it at the expense of everyone else’s focus in an office setting, and the same goes for all stims. Situational awareness isn’t something to discourage
True, accomodations that fit everyone must be made, but they shouldn’t consider a natural reaction to being neurodivergent a “bad habit to quit”.
We all have to wear masks, my guy. It takes a lot of effort to not be “the weird guy” at work.
But does it, in the end, take less effort than constantly fighting yourself?
Life isn’t a choice between easy and hard, it’s mostly a choice between hard now or way harder later.
It becomes less problematic over time. Without learning how to mask or developing coping skills, life will just be harder in the long run. My career would certainly be less successful if I did not develop coping skills. Burnout can be avoided by finding healthy outlets and enforcing personal time to relax and recover.
For me it’s been the opposite, the less I mask the more I actually end up with people and in environments where I am accepted and cherished for the person I am, not who I force myself to be to fit in. Trying to do that nearly killed me.
It’s kind of a running joke in my family that I’m on the spectrum.
I mentioned getting an assessment to my wife, and she made what I felt was a pretty strong argument against it. Essentially that at 56 years old it wouldn’t change anything, and it would be time, effort, and money spent with no gain.
I’m wondering what you are expecting to achieve with your assessment.
Also, meow.
Know thyself.
Getting an ADHD diagnosis opens you up for medical help. Getting an autism diagnosis can to in some places. In some states you’ll get state sponsored healthcare. Depending on your needs of course.
Gnothi seauton!
I learned who I was. And I would still have been a slob even if I hadn’t.
I agree with this, and by all means healthcare should be provided if that is what you need. However, there’s a bunch to be said that if you’ve developed a bunch of coping mechanisms that fix or address certain aspects, that getting medicated could completely fuck up your flow of what you used to do and now need to learn new ways to deal with things with medication. But knowledge is power, but I don’t always agree that if you’ve lived 50 years unmedicated, and then getting medicated is always the answer but it absolutely should be available.
Yeah, it’s never a “have to”, or even a should. What I found is I’ve gotten older, is that my coping mechanisms didn’t hold up over time. Medication was right for me. That’s not going to be everyone though.
Being the child of silent generation parents and way older siblings I was just the weird kid. Always being told there was something wrong with me but never did anything about it. Once I got older I was just called quirky and uncle nutsy by my nieces and nephews. I first found out I have aphantasia and anendophasia only 3-4 years ago and reading all the younger folks stuff on reddit and here I figured maybe that is why I was the way I was. Asked my wife and doctor and they said well yes of course you are on the spectrum.
Self assessed autism is a thing and just as welcome in any neurodivergent community.
The main reason where medical assessment is important is if there are genuine challenges related to it that you do need help with.
Many disabilities only exist in context of the society one lives. In many aspects neurodivergent is just a flavor of brain and not a disability in any sense of the world.
But when the whole word demands you to be capable of A while all you cal do is X, its still considered a disability in medical context and to get expert help you will need the medical assessment.
I applaud your partner for accepting you as you are and saying the label doesn’t matter. But it might still be an idea to see if you could get it checked upon, you don’t know how your neurology might change with age.
Or you may have underlying challenges that you normalized as “everyone has this problem, right?”
It’s the sound of their dreams being crushed in the dream crushing machine. Millenials and Gen Xers used to make similar noises back when they still had dreams.
Zoinks!
Jinkies, even.
I do the occasional “ruh roh”
It still gets me that one of the last transmissions of the SS El Faro (ship) before it sank, was “ruh roh” Scooby do impression
Meow.
Also, shouldn’t there be one more year left before the oldest of Gen Z reach 30?
As a 30 y/o Millennial, I can confirm this is the case.
As a 30 y/o Gen Z, nyaaa~
As a mid-30s millennial, ow my back
UwU sussy baka
ARF ARF ARF
I watch this daily for motivation.
I also make the same noises every morning.
That seal is a poet of all time.
As a 29 yo gen z yes we got 1 more year 😭
I keep my GenZs collared and in a closet. They do grunt, but it seems normal adult reactions to what is being done to them. Are you specifically referring to non sexual noises in the GenZs that you own?
No he was strictly talking about the sexual noises.
I need to change industries
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Ahh… Words that warm my heart, fuck them indeed.
A colleague regularly goes “grrr” and for quite some time I didn’t know that had an origin other than comic books. He’s 34 and - yes - officially autistic.
My Xennial boss is by far the biggest vocal stimmer in our office.
Curious to know if they also claim that “we didn’t have that stuff when I was a kid,” and attempt to defend casual usage of the r-slur?
Absolutely not, just a big flamboyant goof and they know it.
That actually makes me happy.
To shreds you say?
Gen Z:
The only vocalizations that can be heard from my desk; “Are you fucking kidding me?”
I think you’re speaking for many of us. Typing is my job, for all intents. And sometimes, as I tend to do, I rush. And I’ll make a typo. I’ll backspace it up, and then I’ll make the same fucking typo. And so when I do it a third time, you’ll get some variation of “Are you fucking kidding me,” whether it’s me to my computer or just to myself.
I hate how they talk about people like property they own.
Its more like a town, not like property.
It’s the same as saying “my town.” It’s not “yours” because you own it, it’s “yours” because you care for it.
We’re called a resource for a reason. Something they pay for, use at a consistent rate, replace when empty. They input the human resources with the other raw materials on one side, and get a product out the other side that they sell for a profit, which they keep.
I’m assuming it’s on purpose, but this is straight out of the Communist Manifesto.
I like Utah Phillips’ take on this one.
It’s strange that people explain the reasoning behind certain ideas whilst I only express my dislike of them.
