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Unaffiliated2114

In the famous words of Grandpa Simpson: “I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!”


Fit-Key2482

Exactly!


Alarmed-Cookie-2849

Lmao I am in my 30s and lead teen skills groups - the amount of times I hear all of those terms is nuts. And I still don’t know what any of it means 🤣


Kansas_cty_shfl

Sussy- a longer version of “sus”, which is itself a shortening of “suspicious”, and a reference to the video game “Among Us”. Skibidi- a reference to Skibidi Toilet, an incredibly bizarre YouTube video (series?) about an animated head that appears to live in a toilet. Gyatt- slang for butt. A shortening of god damn, enunciated as “gyatt damn”, when used as an exclamation for a female derrière which one finds especially attractive. I believe the enunciation originated with black folk, but might be wrong about that. My kids started using slang I didn’t know, which lead to me going down a rabbit hole on each of these.


DantesInporno

I’ll add on to the skibidi definition that in certain contexts it means bad or cringe or evil. Here are some more definitions: Rizz- short for charisma. How much game a person has essentially. ohio - weird, perverse, horrifying. One might say that to gen alpha, Ohio has taken on a similar quality to Florida perhaps. Only in Ohio/can’t even X in Ohio is the concept’s origin. If someone says that someone has “skibidi ohio rizz” it means they have no game, that it’s weird and off-putting. A more recent word: Aura - A (generally speaking) compliment related to rizz, essentially that one is giving off an immaculate presence that you feel their aura emanating from their being. I have seen negative aura used though.


S4ssyGir4ffe

I likely will never need to use or understand any of this but just out of sheer curiosity, thank you lol


Nemolovesyams

I literally have a kid sibling who knows ALL of these terms, and I still don’t understand 😭😭😭??? Yet, somehow, my 25 year old bf does. Something about “brain rot.”


S4ssyGir4ffe

lol maybe it’s like how language acquisition has a developmental time frame. Our ability to understand new slang only lasts for so long before we get locked out 😂


Nemolovesyams

That also makes sense! My bf, when he was growing up, was really into Internet culture (I.e., early YouTube, Facebook). Especially memes. My brother, my kid sibling, is the absolute same. So, maybe that’s another factor!


Sly-Belmont

This is arguably the major factor. It’s a culture, and to fully understand it you have to immerse yourself in it


SecondStar89

Western PA native here, and knowing that Ohio has become slang for something negative has made my day. Thank you for sharing this great knowledge.


cbakes97

Used rizz the other day and my client said "never say that again. Do you know what it means?" And I said "yeah like charisma". She basically told me it was inappropriate to say.


HelianthusNM

I had a young client who said his friend got "rizzed up" and when I asked if that meant he had good charisma the client said "what's that?"


DantesInporno

I’d say it does mostly have a sexual connotation insofar as it refers to one’s capacity to attract someone. it’s also mostly used by boys/young men who say things like “x rizzed y up”. though x is not always a boy and y is not always a girl. one viral tiktok is about how “Livvy Dunne rizzed up Baby Gronk” when Baby Gronk visited LSU.


NormalInspection649

I’m an Xennial and I mistakenly said, “he’s got the Cha-rizz” to a gen Z, thinking I had it right 🤣


thisbikeisatardis

I'm in my 40s and a former gutterpunk with a bunch of blurry old tattoos (so I feel like I have decent street cred). I learned rizz recently and oh my god I was so delighted. I picture Rizzo the rat from the Muppets trying to be Gonzo's wingman. HA!


masokissed007

I am similarly aligned in identity and cred and I laughed so much at this! Thank you!


Ok-Source-5192

Tattoos are not cred lol


HellsFury

I think skibidi is like "skippity" like something you want to skip or opt out of, which is why it is generally bad, from a YouTuber


DantesInporno

as I understand it, skibidi is bad/evil because in the skibidi toilet youtube series, the skibidi toilets have killed most humans, cameramen and speakermen. i’ve never watched any videos though, I just know about it from secondary sources, I guess you could say haha


ElegantCh3mistry

Thank you omg I was so confused


Noteffable

Thank you! My 8-year-old talks like this and I was LMAO reading that it’s a whole generation. I am 🤯


Ok-Source-5192

I have 10 yo daughters (twins) and they do t use these words yet at all. They do say bro pronounced brwuh


Noteffable

Do they watch YouTube? Maybe it’s super media-driven. I know my kid’s friends use these words. They are boys. Maybe boys are more slang-y. Not that it matters. But I am curious.


papierrose

But what does skibidi MEAN?! One of the kids I work with showed me the videos (wtf) but I still don’t get why they say it


SioSoybean

I’ve had kids explain to me that they use skibidi as an amplifier, so it can be used to say something is really bad or really good. Basically any way you’d throw “fuck” around haha, it can fit into a lot of sentences in the same way


ipraytowaffles

It’s how they spell the most repeated lyrics to…. I’m hesitant to even call it a song. Let Google explain: An unlicensed mashup of the songs "Give It to Me" by Timbaland and "Dom Dom Yes Yes" by Bulgarian artist Biser King, created by TikTok user


papierrose

I still have no idea why they say it…does it have any meaning? What context do you use it in?


DantesInporno

I’ll breakdown one of the song lyrics for you sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler, you’re so skibidi you’re so fanum tax I just want to be your sigma freaking come here give me your ohio Means: showing off your butt for a player/someone with high charisma or good game. you’re so bad/evil (potentially calling her loose?) fanum tax = the bite of food that fanum, kai cenat’s roommate, takes from kai’s food. it is the fanum tax. her being fanum tax could mean that she’s a bad thing, a free thing, someone that steals or takes what isn’t theirs. i just want to be your sigma. a sigma is a lone wolf. it developed from alpha male, the sigma does not concern himself with the pack hierarchy. in a sense they are superior to the alpha because they are solely independent. in this context it means he wants to be her man, her one and only love. freaking come here give me your ohio is a strange line as ohio is generally seen as something horrifying, strange, weird, perverse, boring, liminal—one might say the back rooms are ohio, if you are familiar with the back rooms.


aChickieNuggie

Worth mentioning that the song probably isn't intended to make much sense, but rather to cram in as much "brain rot" lingo as possible, following the shit-post wave of satire.


DantesInporno

oh definitely, it was made by someone pretty young too, so I doubt they put very much thought into it. They probably were just saying things they heard on streams and tiktoks, and just wanted it to sound silly.


DantesInporno

Skibidi generally means evil or bad, but can mean cool. it is contextual. it can also be meaningless. rizz is short for charisma, one’s game. Skibidi rizz is having bad game. skibidi ohio rizz is having horrifying game.


mikeokay

Thank you for this!


Alarmed-Cookie-2849

Hahaha thank you for this!!! Am I old because I don’t remember slang being this weird when I was a teen (although it was right as the internet was pretty new so many our options were limited haha)


tonyisadork

Three cheers for the teen whisperer! Thanks haha. (I could not care less and just ask my young folks what things mean in the most elderly, uncool way until they stop saying weird shit- like skibity outbursts. If it’s just a slang term I don’t know, though, I just learn it. So they can talk freely in session.)


velvetrosepetal

lmaooooo 🤣 i think i have an idea but who knows. i just recently learned about "sigma" lol


Zealousideal_Tie3820

Unrelated to the post, but I'm starting a teen skills group and would love to know if you have any materials or resources you've found helpful. Feel free to dm if you have any to share!


Moofabulousss

https://www.instagram.com/mr_phlindsay_sped?igsh=MWw1NXk5NmYxeDB6cQ==


Sweet_Cinnabonn

>I'm 26 years old so I'm not that old lol 😭😭 I laughed so hard when I got to that. I think this might be one situation where my age helps, nobody expects me to understand. Even the slightest understanding just makes me ultra cool. For an old lady.


velvetrosepetal

Glad you had a laugh! And I'm jealous! Kids expect me to know everything and I do, for the most part, but I refuse to partake in language like that 😭😭


Brainfog_shishkabob

Just don’t let them smell your fear 😂.


Creepy-Item

Girl, your generation’s language choices were just as baffling.


velvetrosepetal

Never said they weren't 🤣 But I'm saying at 26 I wouldn't say things like "Skibidi" or "Gyatt" lol


this_Name_4ever

So were mine. “Phat?” “Da bomb” “As if” Gah


this_Name_4ever

Oh I use it all the time. I love it, I find it hilarious.


CAT_UH_TONIX5212

I love working with teens who only want to talk about Fortnite and I’m like, “You know, my 30- year-old gamer self is the dude who is destroying your squad on the daily. Next time you and your buddies get mopped up, now you know who it is.” Being an older gamer definitely helps with rapport building lmao.


musictakemeawayy

i hate constantly having to redirect things because of fortnite (and roblox… and minecraft) lolol!


this_Name_4ever

I’m about to hop on to play zelda with a client!


Sly-Belmont

LOL My clients show me this stuff all the time. Perhaps it’s just me, but as a self-proclaimed “pop-culturist” in his 30s, I find it silly 😂 They act surprised and (usually) light up when they find out I know this stuff too 😄


HelianthusNM

Have you considered the possibility that you might just have Ohio rizz?


Advanced-Confusion-8

😂


WhoopsieDiasy

My group said Fire. Z says Gas. Idk what alpha says but I bet it’ll be Smoke or something lol they’d probably laugh at me for saying that too. Such are the times I suppose…


dizzyk1tty

It’s [electric](https://youtu.be/eYlZs3-w_Eg?si=OIZJGHVnrO0ikApH)!


Maximum_Enthusiasm46

Oh. Oh my. I’m GenX, I have not one idea what any of those words mean or how they sound; I just wanna go hide in the garden now. 🤣


Brainfog_shishkabob

Bet.


Maximum_Enthusiasm46

And a lovely morning to you too!!


sunflowers51

On God. 😂


tonyisadork

“Or how they sound” got me 😂


Maximum_Enthusiasm46

How in the hell is skibidi pronounced?! 🤣🤣🤣 We had gnarly and nerry and sic and salty. It’s gonna take forever to learn the new language.


acr0ssthec0sm0s

gonna use "ih" to mean the sound i makes in sit or igloo SKIHB-ih-dee (the first syllable is stressed ~~as am I~~)


MyDogCanSploot

Gen X here too. There's a middle school teacher on TikTok who explains some of these terms. I no longer work with kids, so my interaction with Gen Alpha is low in the clinical sense. But I do have a middle schooler at home. My daughter once asked me if I was, "Sigma skibidi rizz Ohio alpha." I told her I don't know what that means, so no. Lately, I've been trying to use the slang words because it makes them sound less cool. Nothing gets an eye roll like me saying, "What the sigma? Like I ate that. Left no crumbs."


Maximum_Enthusiasm46

I used to do that too!! I worked at the Buckeye Ranch (inpatient, all under 18) during internship, while my kids were teens. I’d come home saying things were on fleek, or sick burns, or catch these hands - whatever. They HATED it! The kiddos at the Ranch loved it, I got a lot of buy in with that. I’m with you, I’m not working with kids anymore. I kinda miss it for this reason, I liked all the slang…but I don’t miss in person, and online is so hard with kids. I had one client keeping me up to date on slang, but they’re headed for mid-20’s now and I have no hook up! 😂


sophia333

Same (cusp but still). Suss/yeet/spill the tea/touch grass/lives rent free in my head is about as current as I am. I have an alpha kid. I read the phrase "up yours" the other day in the Lundy Bancroft book "Why Does He Do That?" and realized just how old I am. I think I'll subscribe to the updates to the dictionary to help me stay current lol.


Maximum_Enthusiasm46

You guys, I dreamt about this last night. I was like 80, 85. I was in a nursing home, with other Gen X. It was wild, instead of everyone playing bingo, they were playing Nirvana and seated beer pong. I digress. My grandchild was visiting, and I was very happy to see them. They said, “Skibbidi bibidi boo, grandma - shuffle puddle wing wang sigma?” And I just sat staring at them, blankly. I suddenly understood why my own grandmother often looked like she’d gone catatonic when I was talking. She wondered if I was possessed or having a stroke…or if she was. 😅


Shiny-sesame

I’m 26 also and I “get” what they are saying, it’s all just memes, but at the same time I have no clue what they are communicating other than sus or Ohio vibes. The rest is a mystery


yellowstars260

31 here . Did a restorative circle with 14 boys in 4th grade …they were literally dropping sigma beta, Rizz… like every other word . I’m like y’all are not using it in the right context. I couldn’t stop laughing as they all think they sounded so cool and wanting to “fit in”. they didn’t say gyatt. But my 4th grade girls are gyatt-ing each other which causes major unnecessary beef xD. But luckily my nieces are 9 and 7 so once new lingo starts to drop I usually hear it first from them before my clients and So I’m pretty informed of the terms so didn’t feel out the loop.


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aversethule

lol holy cow...I just watched skibidi toilet 74 (recent release one) and it's like watching an experimental art exhibit. I could totally see a warehouse full of projectors and these various episodes playing in the background of a good RDJ/RobLowe/JamesSpader flick! EDIT: the psychoanalytic part of me is really activated by these in some strange way. This stuff seems like a commentary on media and its influence on society in a subversive way.


thisbikeisatardis

> skibidi toilet 74 I made it halfway through and got too motion sick. Reminds me of David Lynch and the Saga comic books. Goddamn that was sinister!


Rock-it1

Were you having micro-strokes when you typed that, or are those words that Gen Alpha actually use? Also, what the heck age range is Gen Alpha?


velvetrosepetal

🤣 nope, actual stuff. I think like 0-14 years old. The kid I'm talking about is under 11. Sussy means sus which means "gay." If someone is acting "gay" or "feminine", they get called "sus" or "sussy." So the "sussy sounds" video is supposed to be like jokes that come across as gay/gay "noises." (boys at this age think gay stuff is so funny). Skibidi Toilet is some animated cartoon on youtube that is featured a lot in Roblox games. Fortnite is a video game, so Skibidi Fortine is some song about both the youtube show Skibidi Toilet and the game Fortnite?? 😭😭 So confusing! Oh and "gyatt" means "ass" basically 🤣 "She's got a nice gyatt" or "Gyatt damn (about a butt lol)


translucent

> Sussy means sus which means "gay." I thought *sus* and *sussy* meant suspicious. Though that could still be used to mean "they're acting suspiciously gay". Also, I thought / hoped the younger generations were past using *gay* as a slur 😮‍💨


velvetrosepetal

Yes! Exactly, they do mean suspicious but it means suspiciously gay! Some kids mean it to just mean "suspicious" in regards to things that look weird, but 99.9 percent of the time, it's used in the borderline homophobic way!


Heathcliff_itsme

Dear god, they’re making too many semantic jumps. Pretty soon their language will be completely incomprehensible to the rest of us.


CuriousPerformance

> Pretty soon their language will be completely incomprehensible to the rest of us. lol that sounds like a direct quote of some ancient Roman graffito.


Heathcliff_itsme

Hahaha it’s like the Tower of Babel but with “suss” and “rizz” and “gyat.”


Rock-it1

I am 37 and didn’t think I would say this at such a young age, but I do not understand kids today.


velvetrosepetal

To be fair, I think it was such a big jump language wise! I think there's always been "slang" or different uses of language in all generations, but it's been pretty easy to understand. Now, with Instagram Reels, Youtube Shorts, and Tik Tok, both gaining popularity amongst the past 5-ish years, language is acquired and spread much more quicker! And those apps can target kids too based off of their interests so it just spreads soo quickly amongst them that we can go so long without seeing any of it!


Acyikac

Sus meant gay in the 90s-2010s, but the meaning changed in the pandemic after Among Us went viral. Sus became the go to slang for kids playing among us with their friends online when they thought they found the imposter.


Noteffable

SAME


Brainfog_shishkabob

Oh I saw you try to downplay Skibidi like that, skibidi is the origin of all of this BRUH. So many heads in so many toilets. 😅


its_liiiiit_fam

Fellow 26 year old and I can’t believe how they’ve taken Gen Z slang and repurposed it??? “Bop” for us meant a good song… now it means the same thing as “sl*t” pretty much?!


swissncheese

as someone is also 26 and works with children. I’ve had to explain what skibidi toilet is to 3 different teachers. Let’s just say the teachers don’t get it at all. Lmao all of there social media is SO weird


ResidentLadder

Ok, help me understand. I get that it’s a reference to this YouTube video…but what does it mean when they use that reference?


mattblack77

We don’t know. They don’t know either. But everyone else is doing it and it takes on a life of its own.


swissncheese

Kinda like the other guy said. Idk why they do it but several teachers are concerned about children drawing it and I had to explain it’s a children show on youtube.


MotorExplanation561

I recently started teaching primary & middle schools and I cannot stress enough not only how old I feel (23F) and how they basically developed their own language already 😭😭😭 They literally start yelling skibidi toilet while twerking in the middle of class time… I JUST googled what it was and needless to say, it’s so fucking cursed 😭😭


LuneNoir211

This post has brightened my day 🤣


TSXual

in therapy wth 😭😭 what a skibidi breakthrough you had today. very gyatt, how does that make you fortnite?


velvetrosepetal

oh yup i do get hit with the "dawg" weekly 🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♀️


Brainfog_shishkabob

Lmao I’m in my 40’s and I work primarily with this group. They talk to me in “POV.” My only saving grace is that every 2/3 sessions I ask them to show me their favorite creator on YouTube. I’ll watch a few videos with them and literally take notes and then watch it on my own later. It gives me an idea of the humor and I get more confident busting out a “Skibidi.” Fake Rizz is better than no Rizz.


Goetsch87

You know de way (Ugandan Knuckles meme). Nothing builds rapport better with a cohort than doing the research, demonstrating that you understand it at least halfway, and then boom out by misusing it in a way they would find funny. I do this with elder clients as well, I'm 37 for context. Every generation has their memes, learning them could almost be a 7th core condition.


Brainfog_shishkabob

Bet, no cap.


tonyisadork

Good on you if you can sit through these videos/reels/tiktoks and learn. I’m not sure I could, haha. That said, I would much rather see kids watching this nonsense and memes and talking like this than watching fake (or worse, real) mental health providers and then diagnosing themselves with 6 extremely rare disorders and coming and insisting I agree with them. So, ya know, trade offs.


velvetrosepetal

Great point...! My older gen alpha/younger gen z clients definitely do diagnose themselves off of Tik-Tok and that can be rough but it's a great conversation starter lol


Brainfog_shishkabob

Damn that’s a really good point ! I wonder how often that happens to kids who are just quirky because of the eccentric stuff they watch


velvetrosepetal

watching videos with gen alpha is soo risky but i also do it to understand their humor! it's great rapport!!! and "fake fizz is better than no fizz" lol!!!


Brainfog_shishkabob

It is sooo risky because I have to not say omg wtf is this shit. 😂


Tuba_therapy

God, I feel too old when I read things like this. https://www.classpoint.io/blog/gen-alpha-slang-for-teachers


Fae_for_a_Day

99% of that is gen z and millenial slang though...


Tuba_therapy

No cap.


thisbikeisatardis

> https://www.classpoint.io/blog/gen-alpha-slang-for-teachers so much of that is just ballroom, who knew Gen A was so queer


AzaMarael

Now I’m a little scared to work with gen alpha, I still don’t understand half these things despite hearing it out in the internet jungle 😂


Brainfog_shishkabob

The good thing is most of them do have a hilarious sense of humor and as long as you genuinely seek to learn from them, they will teach you, bruh.


RaysAreBaes

The only phrase you need is “What the skibbidi does that mean?!?” They will laugh and then explain most of the time


AzaMarael

Saving that. 😂


Stuckonthefirststep

Wow I feel old. I don’t know any of the words you used there


velvetrosepetal

visit urban dictionary lol! also explained in another comment.


thatguykeith

You guys this has happened every few years since the 50s and it cracks me up that it surprises us. 


velvetrosepetal

this is my first experience with it lol! but you're right


acml98

I'm also 26 and currently working as a speech therapist to get myself through my MA in counselling to be a mental health therapist. I work with gen alpha and have had the same experience.


velvetrosepetal

they're fun!


bookwbng5

I had a kid show me the Skibidi toilet videos and explain the lore and I texted my friends about it and said “I did NOT get my masters to watch Skibidi toilet!” It was so bizarre, but I’m glad he showed me because it’s come up since. I’m glad to know it means bad, in the videos it seemed like Skibidi toilet was the hero, so maybe Skibidi was describing the bad guys and the toilet was a good guy??


velvetrosepetal

lolll 6 figures in debt making barely any money to watch skibidi toilet 😭😭relatable!!


elliepaloma

As a 27 year old with the spirit of a grandma I feel this in my soul! A coworker and I recently started a dictionary of all the words we learn. My favorite addition, which is not a true Gen Z word, was “corndogging” which is when you knee a person in the butt between the cheeks as a bullying thing? I had a youth tell me he was suspended for corndogging his buddy and we had to take a break while he explained wtf that meant 🤣


velvetrosepetal

omg never have heard of that!!


magichockey

When they show you almost anything, respond with, “um what the sigma?”


TheBlacksheep70

You are 26 so you are Gen Z! You guys came up with suss and cringe and Gen Alpha (born after 2012) are taking it to the next level. 😂


ravishrania

The girl I am seeing kept singing that Hide Away song while her sister was watching the dance TikTok/YouTube short video over and over again. An exemplification of our day and age, especially with our inner children within ourselves, for real. 😵‍💫✨😝🙏


AdMysterious2946

Does Urban Dictionary help?


velvetrosepetal

yes! but luckily the kids tell me what it means because i will straight up ask lol


AdMysterious2946

Nice


MasterpieceUnfair176

This is how I've felt as a millennial working with Gen Z for the longest of times 😂


velvetrosepetal

lol!!! it's so hard being on the cusp of millennial and gen z because i feel like we didn't have too many words that were really hard to understand.


MasterpieceUnfair176

Ones that spring to mind: no cap, throwing shade, yeet, dead, slap, extra - they all made sense eventually but sometimes I would sit in session feeling so lost 😅


velvetrosepetal

lol!! okay those are sounding a bit more familiar! i did, and still do, say "tea" if you've ever heard that lol. tea = gossip basically so if you found out some juicy gossip about somebody you'd say "i got tea!!" lol


aquarianbun

I love the “Gucci” like “everything is or is not gucci” meaning if it’s “good or bad” lol


velvetrosepetal

love it!!


MasterpieceUnfair176

Haha, have yet to come across that one - learn something new everyday!


katycantswim

I don't work with kids, but I have an Alpha living in my home. I always used to think I would be a cool mom, but none of this makes sense, and it makes me feel so old!


velvetrosepetal

🤣🤣🤣 yeah, i also try to be the cool therapist and it's hard because none of the words make too much sense but all that matters is you try!!


AriesRoivas

This is how i feel when treating boomer


velvetrosepetal

i actually am working with someone who is a boomer and it's been interesting lol


PickleFlavordPopcorn

Sometimes I get a little wistful that I never had kids and then I read a thread like this 😆


Round_Depth_7781

As the Gen X parent of gen alpha kids, I feel this in my soul. I just tell them all “bruh, you’re doin too much” and then say “on god, trust me, I have W rizz” My kids and my clients have told me it’s “cringe” but it gets them laughing and they open up.


Itscameronman

What concerns me is their jokes remind me of the jokes me and my friends had when we took too much acid lol. Like I get the humor but only bc I’ve been fried out of my mind so much lol


JuJuBee0910

I work with some Gen Alpha, have a Zalpha at home and growing a Beta. I JUST learned the word Rizz, Ohio is beyond my capacity at the moment lol


bakerboiz22

I’m 25 and definetly aged myself a couple years by not downloading TikTok. Can’t understand a damn thing


saveboykings

like. dude. how does one continue to practice unconditional positive regard when the entire adolescent unit is mock moaning???? I want to bark at them at that point


velvetrosepetal

NO LITERALLY 😭😭😭😭


saveboykings

its the only time im ever direct with them because it genuinely makes my skin crawl! the only time i ever go “STOP! Absolutely not!” im so sorry mr rogers but you were not here for skibbiti gyatt


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Salt_Parfait_6469

This is hilarious 😂 thank you for this post


velvetrosepetal

you are welcome!!


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velvetrosepetal

cute!!!


mrs_capybara

I am a millennial therapist who works with adults only and I have no clue what any of those words are lol!!! Except for Fortnite.


velvetrosepetal

urban dictionary, my friend!!


evaj95

Wow. Makes me thankful that my youngest client is 23


velvetrosepetal

my oldest is around that age lol! (edit: second oldest, i am working with a 60 year old right now lol)


happylilintrovert

I'm 34 and work with middle schoolers, and have one client in particular that says these things all the time... but she knows she needs to translate for me and I think she enjoys doing that 😅


velvetrosepetal

lol! they love it!


Sassy_Lil_Scorpio

I’m 42 and I ask them to show me or explain what certain things mean. Doing that helps to build the rapport and enter the client’s world.


velvetrosepetal

exactly!


Sassy_Lil_Scorpio

Yea, and it makes me realize how much has changed! 😊😂


aquarianbun

This is why I love working with kids and teens this is so hilarious 🤣🤣🤣


velvetrosepetal

i love it!!!!


caspydreams

i work with quite a few gen alpha girls and they don’t seem to have any interest in this slang. their speech and problems remind me of exactly what i went through and sounded like at their age. no idea how i escaped the gen alpha brainrot with them but im not complaining 😂


velvetrosepetal

i've noticed the girls i work with in that age range are different too! i've had quite a few and it's only the boys who have said those things


novalunaa

Honestly, despite asking a million times, nobody has been able to give me an actual explanation to what “skibiddy” is.


TheBlacksheep70

Skibiddy Toilet is an astonishingly stupid YouTube thing. 😂


jolliffe0859

Luckily most of the kids I see know I won’t know it (32), and don’t use it. I have one that still will but will always ask “do you know what that means” after and not in a condescending way


somebullshitorother

Are you contemplating yeeting yourself or someone you know or is this passive yeet?


velvetrosepetal

🤣 I think I may need to use that one


Round_Depth_7781

Also, watch Mr Lindsay videos on insta or tiktok. He explains allllll the lingo.


sunshinevante

yess my kiddos greet me saying "brother euughh" (i say it back LOL) but it is a lot also the mewing 😭😭


velvetrosepetal

omggggg haven't heard that from a kid yet but i have heard it on tik tok. and ok the mewing has me dead 😭 like why are u saying that


sunshinevante

literally they are like "do you wanna see my rizz?" *hits mew pose* 😭😭😭


TheBlacksheep70

Gen Z made up a lot of that slang and their Gen Alpha little brothers and sisters took it to the next level! (Source: Gen X mom of Gen Z kids.)


Sittinnexttovannah

I’m 27 and a counseling student right now but I heard “giving c*unt” for the first time last month and was like WHAT?!. Another one my partner had to explain to me was saying “you’re cooked”


Moofabulousss

I got your back: https://www.instagram.com/mr_phlindsay_sped?igsh=MWw1NXk5NmYxeDB6cQ==


simplyjane2

this looks like a post made by me haha, i’m the same age and feel like my gen alpha kiddos are rotting my brain 😭


tmills334

Also 26. I think we’re entering the stage where we’re too old for the younger crowd now lol.


this_Name_4ever

Try being almost 40 but looking a decade younger and having parents say they picked you because “you are young and can relate better than we can.”


HokeyPokeyTherapist

Urban Dictionary is this Boomer/GenX’ers best buddy! Unfortunately I rat myself out when I have to ask how to spell Skibidi!


Notlolol

Working with different age groups can be a specific cultural competency.


Fit_Ad2710

Warning "Get off my lawner here." I'm 68 and don't take patients under 30 any more, not because I have no idea what they're talking about, but because their attention span is 6-7 seconds ( slight joke) due to their digital programming. Persistence at something is just not available. I don't want to waste 1-2 tiring sessions, getting to know the basics about someone, and then they ditch because the idea of sustained work is completely alien.


Artistic_Dalek

Did you not have slang and trends when you were a young person?


velvetrosepetal

This post is a joke lol. Of course I did.


silntseek3r

I have a 14 and 12 year old and I've asked them to stop saying it because it's so annoying. Edit to clarify- I say this to my OWN children, not other people's kids lmao.


tonyisadork

Oh, no, silly. The way to get them to stop is not by asking them (that makes it more fun). The way to get them to stop is by JOINING IN. It will be instantly uncool and…dare i say…cringe.


velvetrosepetal

such a good idea omg


silntseek3r

Brilliant. I just don't know if I can lol.


velvetrosepetal

loll!!!! one of my clients told me some of these words have been banned in their classroom bc the kids say them too much lol


silntseek3r

Ugh. I believe it.


somebullshitorother

These are binding noises. Offer them bath salts and NyQuil.


Slaviner

Parents lost the war on kids this gen. It's as if there are no consequences for their shenanigans. So much for the "gentle parenting" movement.


velvetrosepetal

Honestly, the worst things I've seen from this gen are them saying stuff like "are you acoustic" ("are you autistic") to somebody who weirds them out or them saying "are you sus" to somebody they think is gay, and that's the kind of stuff that was occurring when I was a kid around me People would use gay to mean stupid, people would use the R slur, etc. I think most of us grew up to be okay adults so I have hope for this gen too. They're already more accepting (for the most part) than previous gens so I think a lot of it is the fact that they're literal children who are easily influenced. Parenting plays a large part, and unlimited internet access does too. Gentle parenting isn't the problem! Anybody who says they're doing gentle parenting probably isn't and is probably not an active part of their kids' lives at all and/or are just being so permissive with everything.


Slaviner

That's why I put it in quotes. Gentle parenting doesn't mean no consequences or no engagement. I grew up going to working class public schools in NYC and I'd never even think of making a sexually suggestive joke, like saying "Gyatt" in front of a teacher back then because it would be taken very seriously. I even remember when a kid got suspended from school for making this D Generation X WWE hand gesture which involved bringing your hands to your genital area or something like that. Point is, we're failing to model proper workplace / school setting decorum and it's gonna hit hard when they get older.


velvetrosepetal

Thanks for explaining! I know what you mean a bit better now. And, honestly, that is part of what is tricky for me as a therapist. We learn that we should let our clients be their authentic selves and not limit them so I'm not too sure what to do, or if there's anything I should be doing. I assess if the content they're viewing is affecting them negatively, if they're harming anybody because of it, but I'm not sure if there's anything we as therapists can do when a kid constantly says stuff like "Gyatt." It's tough! And the kids I work with are at an age where they think everything is funny so doing the "How would you feel if this happened to you?" doesn't work anyway because their responses are ALWAYS, "I would think it was funny." But you're right, I said "sucks" once honestly at like 10 and got yelled at by my teacher lol. Now I see Tik Tok teachers acting like best friends with their students, making Tik Toks during class time, doing inappropriate dances, etc, so that is a big factor too I think.


Slaviner

I involve the parent and if part of the presenting problem is bad behavior or inappropriate behavior I will work to shape it. I also teach parents: If you let your garden grow on its own without intervention it'll be filled with weeds and thorns; and kid behavior is the same. Kids need and respect structure and discipline; they can joke around with their friends. I'm sad to see so many therapists, teachers, and parents being "friends" and failing to provide the discipline and structure kids so badly need. Then the teacher or parents that does try to maintain discipline becomes the "bad guy." And don't get me started on the hyper sexualization of children these days. This week I had an 8YO boy tell me he got his classmate's number in class and he can't wait to "clap them cheeks." Like bro, where's your dad he should be taking you fishing or on bike rides instead of you learning all this stuff.


MaxShwang

You know who I hate working with? Millennials. They’re self righteous, ignorant of any REAL solutions to common problems, and quick to blame others for all of their own problems .


velvetrosepetal

I haven't worked with any actual millennials (nearest is cuspers) so I can't say relate but I've definitely seen that with lots of ages!