Trauma, unlike wealth, actually does trickle down. So even though kids don't understsnd where it's coming from, major traumatic events will affect them second-hand.

[–] JTheDoc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Being in the UK no one believed me when I was concerned at school after hearing about 9/11. My grandad was in there, and it took us a whole day to get a hold of him to find out if he got out in time... 9 year old me hearing on the radio coming back from swimming after a trip at school that the Twin Towers got hit, I remember turning thinking I misheard it to ask my teacher left to me in the coach "My grandad works in there".

Her eyes opened wide. I got collected early from school by my crying mother early. Then I understood and got worried. No one at my school helped calm me, thankfully I must have looked so clueless and confused anyway. I was an odd kid so no one probably cared or noticed.

Odd day. Don't really need to explain much else.

So in answer to the comments on here saying kids don't remember, of course they do! We didn't just start consciousness and wake up at age 10 or whatever.

You're definitely right, it can affect second-hand, even if the child didn't directly understand.

[–] TheOakTree@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

This. I don't remember 9/11 for what it is, but I remember being antagonized as a child for being in the country while not being a white person.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you remember 9/11 that's actually one of the things that makes you a millennial instead of gen z. Most people born on/past 1997 don't remember 9/11, myself included.

My partner is only 2 years older than me, but she's a millennial and I'm gen z. It's weird how much those two years do. She can remember 9/11 and there's a lot of other little things you can read about.

That's another crazy thing, in just 4 years, gen z will be in there 30's!

[–] bpm@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Iirc, the rough delineation is if you remember the challenger disaster = gen x, 9/11 = millennial, covid = gen z, after that = gen alpha.

[–] Amitab@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

I was Born '83 and remember chernobyl. Not that i would have known anything about it. But my parents ran out, hauled me inside and said no more playing outside. In retrospective that was quite disturbing it seems.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I remember them, but I was born early 1990, so I'm one of the early 90's babies.