gen xer here to me everyone is gon na have an oppinon on this subject so here is mine people born from 1964 to 1981 are gen xers gen y starts in 1982 it just seems logical to me me i m born in 1977 i definetly consider myself a gen xer because all my teen years were spend in the early and mid ninties when grunge and alternative music ruled the music scene i mean when i started high school people were still listening to winger and warrant for god sake by my second year everybody had flannel shirts and riped jeans and were listening to pearl jam and gangster rap if you were gon na snip a couple of years off the gen i would not snip 80 or 81 i would snip 64 and 65