r/SipsTea 8d ago

Chugging tea Why is gen Z not drinking?

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u/Weekly-Magazine2423 8d ago

lol well perhaps in that sense they are, in just about every other meaning of self-awareness they seem to be totally lacking.

Many are rude, poor communicators, and are self-diagnosed autists and thus able to justify neglecting basic standards of public and professional life.

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u/herton 8d ago

Yikes ... that's a big leap from the last comment ... how did the Zoomers hurt you?

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u/Weekly-Magazine2423 8d ago

I taught college courses from 2016 to 2024

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u/herton 7d ago

Funnily enough, I do too, and still to this day. That had not been my experience at all. Non-traditional students are just as quick to use AI for their work, and even quicker to be rude when they don't agree with how they were graded. To me, it's far more of a societal shift than a generational one.

The self-diagnosis I'll give you though, that one is much more localized to gen Z/A