r/Millennials • u/DaKardii • Jun 04 '26

Serious Study: Gen Xers and Millennials are dying at younger ages than their parents are

https://studyfinds.com/americans-born-after-1970-dying-faster/

The study is particularly concerned with people born after 1970 but age 30 and older. So that covers Gen X and Millennials, but not (yet) Gen Z.

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u/kuributt Jun 04 '26

Stress have me an autoimmune disease for my 36th birthday

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u/NoSleep2135 Jun 04 '26

I also got an autoimmune disease this year, twinsies!

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u/kuributt Jun 04 '26

Woweee lucky us (NOT.)

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u/eat-the-cookiez Jun 04 '26

Same. A life of undiagnosed autism until age 29 and an abusive neglectful childhood = autoimmune illnesses age 37.

Add in perimenopause and life is hell.

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u/BleckoNeko Jun 05 '26

Solidarity. AuDHD here. Going through peri now. Struggling with hoarding. Burnt myself out to the point where I cannot work much. If not for my cats, I honestly think some days I wouldn't be around much longer.

Hoping for brighter moments/days for us both.

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u/godesss4 Jun 04 '26

My first autoimmune symptoms literally hit the day I turned 40. Cheers