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[semperfiona]

T'other night, I was listening to the Arch on my way home from work
(gratuitous plug: I like their format and their attitude). There was a
recorded call-in that went something like this:

"Hi, I'm Stacy, I'm 23 years old, I grew up in the eighties, and I love
the Arch."

Now one of two things is true here. Either I misheard her, and she said
33, or she's using "grew up in" in an entirely different way than I do.
I consider myself to have grown up in the eighties, and I'm almost
fifteen years older than 23. When I say "grew up in", I'm thinking
adolescence, not childhood. I turned 12 in 1980, and was 21 at the end
of the decade.

Comments

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Hm - I was born in '75, and I'd say I grew up in the '80s too. One because, yes, to me "grew up" means childhood - by the time you're 15, the phrase "when you grow up" has started sounding incongruous despite any technical validity - and two because insofar as I absorbed the mainstream culture (TV, music - the stuff everyone shares) of any decade, it was the '80s. By the '90s I was already well out of it. (OTOH I'd say your OP grew up more in the '90s than in the '80s, since 8 to 14 are the most relevant years IMO)

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

I'd probably include the 70s in the time span of when I grew up. I remember that decade, and it has influenced me in some ways that stick with me today.

Not a phrase I really use, though.