I miss the 90-s

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Here are some things about 90-s that I miss.

1. Back in the 90-s when I said I have Asperger, the most likely reaction was "whats that". The other two reactions that were second to this were "its not an excuse" and "you don't raelly have it". On the other hand, right now everyone knows what it is and suspect that I have it even if I don't tell them. I know a lot of aspies might disagree with me, but I strongly prefer the reaction back in the 90-s. At least back then I wasn't stereotyped and people were trying to encourage me to do my best socially. Right now, on the other hand, they just assume I will always be this way and give up on me.

2. Here is something closely related to the above. Back in the 90-s people kept telling me that making friends is important and I didn't believe them. Right now I am the one who thinks making friends is important, but nobody believes me. Perhaps its because back in the 90-s they didn't stereotype me based on Asperger so they tried to encourage me to lead the normal lifestyle. Right now they do stereotype me so they assume I don't need friends. Too bad I didn't see their point back in the 90-s and never took all those opportunities that were offered to me.

3. I didn't know that there is such a thing as internet till the beginning of 1998. The internet addiction is horrible, it holds me back academically. Right now there is nothing I can do about it since everyone expects me to check email. Back in 1998-1999 they didn't. So if I were to go back to 1998 or 1999 knowing about myself what I know now, I would avoid both email and internet and lead a happy life.

4. Back in the 90-s nobody expected me to be tech savvy, now they do. I am still bad at technology. I struggle when it comes to power point and prefer to do the talks on transparencies. Yes, they let me do it, but I stand out. Back in the 90-s I wouldn't have. And, by the same token, my current thesis advisor is mad at me because I wouldn't learn how to do math calculations on various computer programs -- he wants me to learn either matematica or matlab or maple, he doesn't care which one, he just wants me to learn one of them. But I find it super difficult. Back in the 90s nobody would have expected me to do it.

5. Back in the 90s people thought of orange juice as healthy, right now they came up with all those nitpicky theories why it isn't. Well, if you want to be nitpicky you can prove that just about anything and everything is unhealthy. Sometimes we just have to use common sense, and the fact that orange juice is healthy is part of common sense. But I guess people nowdays don't have common sense any more that they used to have back in the 90s. I guess internet brainwashed them or something.

6. Nowdays there are all those security cameras, they put microchips into passports, and so forth. As a Christian, it makes me worried about mark of the beast coming. Back in the 90-s they didn't have any of those security measures. We could go to airplane without taking off our shoes. And passports didn't have microchips in them either.

7. Last but not least: back in the 90-s I was in my teens so I had life ahead of me. Now I am 40. Well I don't look back to early 90-s (too much bullying at school and babying by my parents), I more look back to late 90-s, like 97 is my favorite, but 98 and 99 are okay too. So I guess it is weird to say that being 18 or 19 is still teen, but anyway I really miss it.

the 90s were a simpler time, no doubt.

ANY fruit juice is loaded with sugar and to be avoided. and whole wheat has a surprising amount of natural sugars in it.

5K is 3.1 miles, out about 3 miles, 175 yards.

The 90s were a pain in the butt. I was in my 30s then. Things are much easier for me now than then.

I had to pay bills via snail-mail then. It wasn’t an idyllic life for me.

The 2020s are better for people with executive functioning difficulties. If you lost an important document in the 90s, you probably were pretty screwed. You would have had to wait weeks to have that document mailed to you. Now, you could probably get a printed copy right away of that document for a small fee.

You had to actually go to stores to shop, most of the time.

1990s... being a child in a developing country. It certainly had its fun. I was poor but everybody was poor back then.
Travelling like 8 persons in a 5-person car... nobody heard about baby seats here. Well, maybe some heard about them. But we didn't have a car anyway.
Everything was rapidly changing here in the 90s. The economy booming from almost nothing to... something.
I liked the dynamics of that time. Would I be happy about it if I were an adult back then? My parents were full of hopes. My parents-in-law were rather scared.
Now my country is officially "developed". I guess it's better that way.

I went through a huge 90s nostalgia phase in my early 20s, but when I came out of it I realized something important. I tended to recall the good points of the 90s and completely forgot things about the 90s that aren't as good as what we have now. In short, it really was a rose-coloured glasses thing. There are things about the 2010s (and now 2020s I guess) that I really like too, but I was for a time so focused on the best points of a decade that came and went a long time ago.

Note that I think revisiting the past is a good thing. I just don't think it's worth living there. At most maybe get a summer home there, so you can enjoy a nice vacation for your mind by basking in the good points of the past and none of the bad. You can do this by enjoying your favourite 90s media that you still have access to, for example. But, do remember that it's 2020 out there and like it or not, you still have to live in the current day.

I grew up in the 90's and early 2000's and I didn't have a very good time. There are times I miss and certain things I miss sometimes...but overall I think I was too depressed in my childhood and got bullied a lot...and I am sure sometimes I thought people were picking on me because I was just taking things too serious. I always felt like something was wrong with me or different about me but I couldn't figure out what it was. Also my parents didn't have a good relationship so home wasn't exactly a place of solace. My main escape was reading books...my mom didn't like video games otherwise it probably would have been a mix of the two because I was always interested in playing video games but kinda hard to do if you're not allowed. Though I did whenever I was at a friends or family members house who'd let me get on their console.

I don't miss the 90's that much.