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Originally Posted by bilbao58
Baby Boomers were terrified of getting Polio and we turned out O…er… Never mind! 
Anyway, kids have all kinds of fears instilled in them. “Stranger Danger!” being one that comes to mind. |
I honestly can't recall being terrified of much of anything as a young child. It was my generation that was in primary school when adults were building fallout shelters and preparing for nuclear Armageddon and I recall seeing those backyard shelters as similar to the "underground forts" we kids were building in the nearby forest. I asked friends if we could play in the ones their families had (usually the answer was "no").
By the time I was in high school, I do recall that "ban the bomb" types were telling everyone that an entire generation was being warped by the certainty that they would become radioactive cinders before reaching adulthood . . . and yet here we are, cynical old folks laughing at the self-centered, hedonistic offspring we produced who are unwilling to undergo any form of privation.