Generation Alpha lingo

[unsunghero]

Personally I wish I gave a shit about anime. Especially for the kind of kids I tend to see in behavioral health (depressed, socially anxious, few friends, etc) anime is usually big with kids of all ethnicities

I used to always hear about “my hero academia” or something but now it’s mostly “demon slayer” whatever the hell that is. The plot is often some high school kid who is half demon or the only “good” demon in the world or some shit

The little kids, especially autistic kids, love their Minecraft, Roblox, and for some reason autistic young kids often have a thing for trains

If the kid is using extreme language like “I could just kill that guy for what he did to me” they almost always are playing FPS games like COD or Fortnite. Any extreme language with either a lot of cussing or casual threats, that kid is playing FPS all day

A lot are either into YouTube or TikTok. I dunno shit about TikTok, but kids like to talk about who they follow on YouTube. Often young girls are into uploading their own TikTok vids, usually lip syncs of songs

You hardly ever hear about kids having non-screen interests unless their parents forced them to get into a sport. Otherwise the only physical pursuit I tend to occasionally hear about is skating

That’s off the top of my head

[Rager and Quitter]

Oh shit! My 2-year-old loves trains! What the fuck do I do?!

[azeth]

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Oh shit! My 2-year-old loves trains! What the fuck do I do?!

Get them into TikTok asap

[Lune]

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Oh shit! My 2-year-old loves trains! What the fuck do I do?!

Yea they're fucked, I love trains and I've got like one or two toes in the spectrum

[Botten]

After a presentation I can usually tell who is paying attention in the group of kids.

Just want to relate to the next prodigy that could do far more.

I will try to play it safe. Go to their level. Try to connect.

I have some cover. A lot of times it is my accent or my improper English that lets me get away with mistakes.

Just got to be fun. I think, I will stick to the safer defined words like (sigma, drip, for real for real and mad lit).

Honestly, I find language way to intriguing. I study language too much to try ignore this opportunity. I am pretty excited.

I am a nerdy scientist might as well Go off King[45] about it.

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[Origen]

It's worth mentioning that an enduring love of trains is also a feature of socialists and other intellectuals.

[unsunghero]

If I’m at a school and there’s paper around, sometimes I will ask the younger kids if they know how to make a paper airplane. I swear to God, paper airplane making must be like a required class these days, because like 9 times out of 10 the kid is like “paper airplane? No problem, what size you want? Wings and fins or just wings? You want two sets of wings?” (Jk on that last part)

Then they whip that shit up and get the validation of my legit amazement (because I forget how to make them in between every demonstration). We throw it around for a bit and it’s good times

Sometimes I’ll say “did you know it’s physically impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times?” Kids always balk so I’m like “go ahead, get whatever size piece of you paper you think can do it, you’re going to probably want to involve a chair leg too and sit on it”

They usually try to cheat but they ultimately have fun trying and failing. Then I call them a failure and say you’re probably going to fail at everything else you do in life” and call it a day. Jk again on the last part

[aussenseiter]

Originally Posted by Origen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's worth mentioning that an enduring love of trains is also a feature of socialists and other intellectuals.

I like-a da choochoo, I vote-a for da Biden. Bellissimo!

[unsunghero]

Oh and what’s fucked up is the new hit thing that previously was rubber popper pads, and prior to that was fidget spinners, in the sensory room (the new friendly name for what used to be called the “Time Out” room) at schools and in therapist’s offices is that kinetic sand stuff

And two weeks ago I was like no way am I gonna watch this kid play with this stuff and not play with it as well, as I’m a fidgeter too. And she had already faked about to eat it making me forcefully say “don’t eat that it will make you sick!” And she said “it smells like candy”

And after she handed it to me, it smelled like cotton fucking candy! And was fluffy white color? I was like “why would they make this inedible kids product smell like cotton candy?” And she was like 8 so her response was an expected confused face. Then I went back to the assessment and mentioned it to the teacher, and she was just as baffled as me

It reminded me of the whole tide pod fiasco. I dunno if this is all types of this “sand” but what the fuck?

[Seducio]

This one works almost every time on the under 10 crowd and stops working for teenagers. If you know the kid - your own kid, a family member's kid, or kid from friend of family - it's easy to get engagement. Walk up to the kid so they see you approach, tap them lightly on the shoulder/elbow and say somewhat lounder than normal:

"You're it!"

Then slowly jog away. Never underestimate how much kids love tag. Very good chance they're going to chase you so that they aren't "it" any longer. Let the games begin.