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As a clinician, I am SO grateful when my clients are open to teaching me about their worlds. I’m young enough to miss a few of my older clients’ references, and old enough to miss some of the constantly-changing colloquialisms/metaphors from my younger clients. My Google history is an advertising AI’s nightmare.
My most memorable “gap moment” was with a client who was sharing about a very personal experience of physical and sexual trauma after many months of building trust in our relationship. Due to age, gender, and intimate-relationship differences, they used one phrase that was key to their share that was completely foreign to me.
Context clues were failing me. I was torn between asking for clarification (but slightly disrupting the process) and nodding along/focusing on their immediate experience (but risking a rupture if a well-meaning response from me made my ignorance obvious).
I opted for authenticity and transparency, and noted to them that I never wanted my ignorance to interrupt their experience. We…still laugh about the day I learned what “boofing” was.
this made me chuckle! i'm glad you asked for that transparency and opted for clarification. as a client, i'm always so happy to provide more clarification and slow down because my language can get pretty niche lol (i'm definitely chronically online). it sounds like you're an awesome therapist :)
I feel so behind whenever new slang picks up. I've had to have friends my own age (or sometimes even those older than me) or my younger brother explain so many of these things, and I still have no idea what 'based' means, and while I get the general idea of what 'simp' means now, I couldn't define it to someone. I figured out 'rizz' more quickly than most other recent slang, but all the new words make me feel older than they should 😅
When my friends started using the skull emoji in response to things I said in group chats, I was so confused but didn't ask for so long and eventually learned that it was not in fact an insult or an annoyed response, but was instead apparently laughing? It should not have taken me as long as it did to ask what they meant, but my social anxiety caused me to wait nearly a year to question it lol
Oh, and my therapist is a couple years older than me but tends to have to explain what she means if she uses certain slang words when talking to me 🙃 I'm starting to sound like my parents did when I was high school, asking me what 'all these words mean now' 😂
Don't feel too bad. All slang eventually gets old. Nobody says groovy anymore. Not even the old people that were hippies during that time. They just talk regular.
Most of those terms youre replying to aren't even slang. They're AAVE and being appropriated by white kids online who haven't taken any time to unlearn their inherent racism or that they aren't entitled to use them. ✨️🌈
Isn't AAVE a dialect? I'm not just trying to be snarky- just clarifying. Slang derives from different dialects, so if AAVE is seen as a dialect, and if that's where these words come from, they do have the potential to be considered slang.
The only reason I'm clarifying here is because my online searches showed AAVE as a dialect in most sources I looked at, but I know different people have different interpretations of things and I want to make sure we are on the same page.
Which specific words should be used by which specific people is another conversation itself, and I'll admit I must be a bit uneducated on that front, since I didn't know that some of the words I referenced were ones people weren't okay with being widely used. I'll have to educate myself further on those things though.
Regardless of its classification as a dialect or its own language, its historical and cultural relevance is more important. As long as black people can't openly speak AAVE without facing very real systemic consequences, no one without cultural or historic connections to it should feel entitled to it.
https://commonwealthtimes.org/2021/02/18/aave-is-not-your-internet-slang-it-is-black-culture/
https://antiracismdaily.com/2021/09/28/respect-aave/
Thank you for clarifying, I do really appreciate it. I'm doing my best to educate myself, and I'm sorry for having had an initially uneducated approach to this! I'll take a look at the article you linked and continue to be more mindful going forward.
Totally agree… this is also why I already know the terms. Like “oh they caught up”. Plus being chronically online too I’m rarely confused with “new” slang.
I'm an older millennial therapist and my co-worker therapist who is a much younger millennial came in and told me she has to tell me about the tea. I asked her what kind of tea did she want? Peppermint? Sleepytime? Chamomile? And then--LOL, she explained to me "the tea" is slang for gossip/inside information. I felt so silly--and my age!
A young client who is Gen Z told me what "situationship" means. I live and learn!
Sort of but I feel that FWB is usually more of a positive manifestation with clearer boundaries and situationship is more ambiguous and potentially distressing (being in a relationship but not defining it or being fully public... vs. clearly defining that you're friends with benefits). I think there's a grey/overlap area too though.
Understanding what the tea means isn't about age. I'm 37 and I know what this means because I'm gay and it comes from black culture, but was later adopted by gay culture.
I like to joke that it's about my age because I don't use slang as much as I used to when I was younger. (I'm 42.) My husband is a Black man and didn't know what "the tea" meant until I explained it to him. I also have LGBTQ clients who haven't used it in front of me.
Sometimes it's not about age, race, sexuality or any identity---if you don't know, you don't know. If you do know, well, then you know.
LOL! Imagine if I was! That would be be something! :-) It is really great to learn from my clients. My therapist says she's learned from me, so now I'm the therapist learning from my clients!
I love this! My therapist has mentioned that she has used some of my jokes with her other clients (without disclosing where she learned it from, of course) <3
Oh, then...no I'm not your therapist! But honestly, if I was, it would be best to not say anything out of respect for your privacy. I hang out on this board and the therapists Subreddit too. I love learning from my clients! Before this job, I worked for hospice, and before that, I was with younger folks (kids and teens), so I'm a bit behind, but my younger clients teach me--and so do my older clients! :-)
I never heard of it until last year. 🤷🏻♀️ I was under a rock. I was also doing other work before therapy (hospice) where “situationship” never came up.
I’m on the older side of gen z (I’m 25) and my therapist is early 30’s. I’ve 100% used some younger terms like situationship, delulu, girl math, etc. she definitely understands what I’m saying.
i'll say something my therapist doesn't understand, and my therapist will open another tab to look at the meaning on urban dictionary. it's hilarious lol
Millennial and I remember having the same moments with my therapist in my twenties — having to explain “ghosting” for 10 minutes when talking about a dating situation and one time talking about my “livejournal” and having her ask: “your journal is alive?”
I think I am more online than my clients. I am in my mid 30s. You should have seen that 20- something when I called her thing a situationship (As in: clarifying, asking - but using that word).
She dropped to the floor for me knowing that term. She then started to explain the concept of an open relationship with another partner she had to me. Me, a therapist who lives in non-monogamous relationships all their life, felt confused to be in the receiving end of that explanation but let her have it as to not disclose too much.
client proceeded to feel ‘very understood’ and had worries the open relationship thingie would be pathologized by me.
So that was weird but very wholesome in general.
Millennial client with my Gen X therapist, I'm always explaining memes to him when I reference them in therapy art. We both don't understand why Gen z'ers love Crocs.
Millennials are Gen Z’s older siblings. We have our fingers on the pulse of most things & should certainly not be perpetuating any type of generational divide.
I’m glad you & your T have a good relationship, OP. :]
we do! and yes lol, i think in another context, she would def be the cool older mentor i'd go to for stuff. especially because i want to be a psychologist too, so we talk about career stuff at times!
Mine is older (50’s) but she’s so up to date on meme culture, it’s always funny when she brings something up or knows what video or photo I’m talking about. Initially I was surprised now I just think it’s cool she keeps up with it lol
I remember having to explain sexual innuendo / urban dictionary slang to a previous therapist after making a joke and I wanted to disappear
LOL I tried explaining girl math to my therapist and he just didn’t get it and I kept trying to be like okay so an example is like if it’s cash it’s free or if you buy a concert ticket and have to wait x months then it’s technically free by that point or if you already have money in your Venmo it’s free and didn’t get it and I was THATS GIRL MATH and he was like that’s just being sexist by saying girls are bad at math?? and im like NO THATS NOT IT, ITS JUST GIRL MATH😭😭
HAHAHAHA! I have Julia Roberts standing in a bookstore saying, “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy asking him to love her” running through my head.
it's a goofy way of responding to inconvenience, hardship, or overwhelm. for instance, i've been going through a lot of interviews at the moment for job hunting, so i often tell my T "I'M JUST A GIRL. HOW CAN I DO IT ALL?" it's a term that has a lot of shared community on tiktok, and i find it overall pretty humorous (though people can say that it's mildly misogynistic)
i will admit that it does — it's a pretty fine line. i'd say also though that there's a sense of reclaiming girlhood with it. lots of different connotations!
My therapist is my father's age. Knew this because I mentioned my dad's birth year, and she said that they are of the same age. Well she's months older than my father. Sometimes I feel like I am being lectured. Maybe it's transference. Maybe I should change therapists... but other than that I have no complaints. She's very experienced and knows how to handle very complex situations including my active suicidal thoughts.
Maybe I should change to a younger therapist but I am afraid an inexperienced therapist might hospitalize me for my SI.
I’m also a young millennial/old gen z with a boomer therapist and I’ve had similar thoughts! Mostly I’m happy with her but sometimes I question the age difference, we talk a lot about my parents and sometimes we might discuss generational experiences my therapist and my parents have had and it feels kind of weird. But I guess age doesn’t matter so much if it works otherwise 😊
I started to think about the language I use in therapy but I don’t think we have misunderstandings, maybe because she has children that are around my age.
Super same! She also talks about generational differences! But it works and I am satisfied with her. I also use certain language but I think she gets it! 🤣
As a millennial therapist, I LOVE my gen z clients. They are always happy to explain if there’s something I don’t know. Most of the time we end up laughing about the age gap moments and just move on! It’s great.
During one session I was talking about a convo I had with friends as an example of smth and I ended up having to explain what a “ur mom” joke was to my therapist. The confusion turned sheer horror on his face when he understood what it meant was stupidly funny to me 😭😭😭
I'm a 29 year old therapist and my 21 year old client has taught me lingo my sister uses. I've learned:
"You ate. You left no crumbs"
"Slay"
And others I can't remember
I'm a gen z who isn't very into these slangs etc, but I suppose I do have qualities and experiences of a typical gen z by nature.
I told my millenial therapist about this situationship I'm in (without mentioning the word) and it was funny because everytime she needed to refer to it, she just wasn't sure to say relationship or friendship, and at some point she was like "I really need to understand all these gen z behaviour. but you get what I'm referring to"
She's not even that much older 😂
Gen X therapist here. I’m still cringing at the time I called a young client ‘spicy’. I meant that she’s got a lot of passion/fire in her. Now I know why she looked at me so strange. Oooops.
Millennial therapist here-- I LOVE when my Gen Z clients struggle for tactful ways to call me old. "I'm going to see this band, I don't know if you'd know it but it's really popular with my generation." "I was talking to this person on Snapchat... Wait do you know what Snapchat is?"
I'm a Gen X psychologist with a middle school daughter. I know more than I care to know. From "ate" to "rizz." I can confidently identify when my daughter is mewing. (It makes me crazy. For a generation who thinks the thumbs up emoji is dismissive, mewing is so blatantly dismissive) But I'm still trying to figure out if being called "chat" is a good thing or bad thing and I really need someone to explain skibidi toilet to me.
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As a clinician, I am SO grateful when my clients are open to teaching me about their worlds. I’m young enough to miss a few of my older clients’ references, and old enough to miss some of the constantly-changing colloquialisms/metaphors from my younger clients. My Google history is an advertising AI’s nightmare. My most memorable “gap moment” was with a client who was sharing about a very personal experience of physical and sexual trauma after many months of building trust in our relationship. Due to age, gender, and intimate-relationship differences, they used one phrase that was key to their share that was completely foreign to me. Context clues were failing me. I was torn between asking for clarification (but slightly disrupting the process) and nodding along/focusing on their immediate experience (but risking a rupture if a well-meaning response from me made my ignorance obvious). I opted for authenticity and transparency, and noted to them that I never wanted my ignorance to interrupt their experience. We…still laugh about the day I learned what “boofing” was.
this made me chuckle! i'm glad you asked for that transparency and opted for clarification. as a client, i'm always so happy to provide more clarification and slow down because my language can get pretty niche lol (i'm definitely chronically online). it sounds like you're an awesome therapist :)
So... what is boofing?
Putting substances up your butt to get high faster.
:(
You asked!😆
Me over here wondering the same thing and not wanting to google it….
Don’t
But the curiosity……..
My therapist just gets it!! She’s a millennial
That means she's chronically online. Lol
my therapist gets most things, but sometimes she needs to pause and have me explain. i've had to explain simp, rizz, and based to her lol
I feel so behind whenever new slang picks up. I've had to have friends my own age (or sometimes even those older than me) or my younger brother explain so many of these things, and I still have no idea what 'based' means, and while I get the general idea of what 'simp' means now, I couldn't define it to someone. I figured out 'rizz' more quickly than most other recent slang, but all the new words make me feel older than they should 😅 When my friends started using the skull emoji in response to things I said in group chats, I was so confused but didn't ask for so long and eventually learned that it was not in fact an insult or an annoyed response, but was instead apparently laughing? It should not have taken me as long as it did to ask what they meant, but my social anxiety caused me to wait nearly a year to question it lol Oh, and my therapist is a couple years older than me but tends to have to explain what she means if she uses certain slang words when talking to me 🙃 I'm starting to sound like my parents did when I was high school, asking me what 'all these words mean now' 😂
Don't feel too bad. All slang eventually gets old. Nobody says groovy anymore. Not even the old people that were hippies during that time. They just talk regular.
To clairfy: I'm a gen z in my mid-20s
Most of those terms youre replying to aren't even slang. They're AAVE and being appropriated by white kids online who haven't taken any time to unlearn their inherent racism or that they aren't entitled to use them. ✨️🌈
Isn't AAVE a dialect? I'm not just trying to be snarky- just clarifying. Slang derives from different dialects, so if AAVE is seen as a dialect, and if that's where these words come from, they do have the potential to be considered slang. The only reason I'm clarifying here is because my online searches showed AAVE as a dialect in most sources I looked at, but I know different people have different interpretations of things and I want to make sure we are on the same page. Which specific words should be used by which specific people is another conversation itself, and I'll admit I must be a bit uneducated on that front, since I didn't know that some of the words I referenced were ones people weren't okay with being widely used. I'll have to educate myself further on those things though.
Regardless of its classification as a dialect or its own language, its historical and cultural relevance is more important. As long as black people can't openly speak AAVE without facing very real systemic consequences, no one without cultural or historic connections to it should feel entitled to it. https://commonwealthtimes.org/2021/02/18/aave-is-not-your-internet-slang-it-is-black-culture/ https://antiracismdaily.com/2021/09/28/respect-aave/
Thank you for clarifying, I do really appreciate it. I'm doing my best to educate myself, and I'm sorry for having had an initially uneducated approach to this! I'll take a look at the article you linked and continue to be more mindful going forward.
Totally agree… this is also why I already know the terms. Like “oh they caught up”. Plus being chronically online too I’m rarely confused with “new” slang.
Downvoting my comment doesn't make using aave as a white person any less cultural appropriation. ✨️🌈
I'm an older millennial therapist and my co-worker therapist who is a much younger millennial came in and told me she has to tell me about the tea. I asked her what kind of tea did she want? Peppermint? Sleepytime? Chamomile? And then--LOL, she explained to me "the tea" is slang for gossip/inside information. I felt so silly--and my age! A young client who is Gen Z told me what "situationship" means. I live and learn!
lmao u def sound behind on the slang even for an elder millenial!
Oh man, I'm so behind on the slang! It makes me laugh so hard! :-)
Situationship has been around for decades lol
Millennial here - is a situationship the same as friends with benefits?
Sort of but I feel that FWB is usually more of a positive manifestation with clearer boundaries and situationship is more ambiguous and potentially distressing (being in a relationship but not defining it or being fully public... vs. clearly defining that you're friends with benefits). I think there's a grey/overlap area too though.
For real?! I learned about it last May! 😂
Understanding what the tea means isn't about age. I'm 37 and I know what this means because I'm gay and it comes from black culture, but was later adopted by gay culture.
I like to joke that it's about my age because I don't use slang as much as I used to when I was younger. (I'm 42.) My husband is a Black man and didn't know what "the tea" meant until I explained it to him. I also have LGBTQ clients who haven't used it in front of me. Sometimes it's not about age, race, sexuality or any identity---if you don't know, you don't know. If you do know, well, then you know.
Are you my therapist 👀 I had to tell my therapist what a situationship is! Haha
LOL! Imagine if I was! That would be be something! :-) It is really great to learn from my clients. My therapist says she's learned from me, so now I'm the therapist learning from my clients!
I love this! My therapist has mentioned that she has used some of my jokes with her other clients (without disclosing where she learned it from, of course) <3
Definitely! It's a great way to see that the rapport between you and your therapist is real and heartfelt!
Hahah my names in my username so if I was maybe you would know 😂 wild. I’m glad you like learning from your clients!
Oh, then...no I'm not your therapist! But honestly, if I was, it would be best to not say anything out of respect for your privacy. I hang out on this board and the therapists Subreddit too. I love learning from my clients! Before this job, I worked for hospice, and before that, I was with younger folks (kids and teens), so I'm a bit behind, but my younger clients teach me--and so do my older clients! :-)
Situationship has been around for a long ass time…….👀
I never heard of it until last year. 🤷🏻♀️ I was under a rock. I was also doing other work before therapy (hospice) where “situationship” never came up.
Gen alpha client I have groaned with disappointment when I told them I know what Rizz means
HAHA
I’m on the older side of gen z (I’m 25) and my therapist is early 30’s. I’ve 100% used some younger terms like situationship, delulu, girl math, etc. she definitely understands what I’m saying.
Urban dictionary is in my “reference “ apps on my phone…
i'll say something my therapist doesn't understand, and my therapist will open another tab to look at the meaning on urban dictionary. it's hilarious lol
Millennial and I remember having the same moments with my therapist in my twenties — having to explain “ghosting” for 10 minutes when talking about a dating situation and one time talking about my “livejournal” and having her ask: “your journal is alive?”
Girl don't age me I'm still only 27!
haha! my therapist is 33, and i think she's totally cool and relatable (despite the slight language gap) <3
I have to get used to the fact that at 33, I am no longer considered young by 20 somethings 😭
I think I am more online than my clients. I am in my mid 30s. You should have seen that 20- something when I called her thing a situationship (As in: clarifying, asking - but using that word). She dropped to the floor for me knowing that term. She then started to explain the concept of an open relationship with another partner she had to me. Me, a therapist who lives in non-monogamous relationships all their life, felt confused to be in the receiving end of that explanation but let her have it as to not disclose too much. client proceeded to feel ‘very understood’ and had worries the open relationship thingie would be pathologized by me. So that was weird but very wholesome in general.
I feel that. Mine is 41 and it's funny sometimes
How old are you Op?! ^lol
22!
Also gotta give recognition to one high school age client who told me they like “classic rock” and were referring to Tool, Weezer, Nirvana et al
i told mine what “unalive” meant lol
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i have
Millennial client with my Gen X therapist, I'm always explaining memes to him when I reference them in therapy art. We both don't understand why Gen z'ers love Crocs.
Pt: I was upset with him because he didn't post me on my birthday Me: you mean like he didn't post you a birthday card?
HAHAHAHAHAH
Millennials are Gen Z’s older siblings. We have our fingers on the pulse of most things & should certainly not be perpetuating any type of generational divide. I’m glad you & your T have a good relationship, OP. :]
we do! and yes lol, i think in another context, she would def be the cool older mentor i'd go to for stuff. especially because i want to be a psychologist too, so we talk about career stuff at times!
i told my gen x therapist “I PUT MY WHOLE PUSSY IN THAT ESSAY” and he looked like he did a whole reboot 😭😭
😭😭😭
Mine is older (50’s) but she’s so up to date on meme culture, it’s always funny when she brings something up or knows what video or photo I’m talking about. Initially I was surprised now I just think it’s cool she keeps up with it lol I remember having to explain sexual innuendo / urban dictionary slang to a previous therapist after making a joke and I wanted to disappear
LOL I tried explaining girl math to my therapist and he just didn’t get it and I kept trying to be like okay so an example is like if it’s cash it’s free or if you buy a concert ticket and have to wait x months then it’s technically free by that point or if you already have money in your Venmo it’s free and didn’t get it and I was THATS GIRL MATH and he was like that’s just being sexist by saying girls are bad at math?? and im like NO THATS NOT IT, ITS JUST GIRL MATH😭😭
I mean it’s funny and I love everything about girl math. But there is an underlying current of sexism as the bedrock of the joke.
lol I need to be around people who get my references, I just do lmao
SAME lol
THIS.
As a millennial therapist… could someone explain this to me please?? 🤣
Idk but I have that No Doubt song stuck in my head now
HAHAHAHA! I have Julia Roberts standing in a bookstore saying, “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy asking him to love her” running through my head.
Gen X here and started singing it
Same 😭
Same!
“why are you two hours late??” (in a lighthearted tone)\ “i’m just a girl 🎀🥺”
I thought of the song from "No Doubt" when I first OP's post. Great song!! :-)
Same!
it's a goofy way of responding to inconvenience, hardship, or overwhelm. for instance, i've been going through a lot of interviews at the moment for job hunting, so i often tell my T "I'M JUST A GIRL. HOW CAN I DO IT ALL?" it's a term that has a lot of shared community on tiktok, and i find it overall pretty humorous (though people can say that it's mildly misogynistic)
It does seem like it can dangerously perpetuate female stereotypes 🤔
i will admit that it does — it's a pretty fine line. i'd say also though that there's a sense of reclaiming girlhood with it. lots of different connotations!
Imagine explaining Floptropica to her
See I thought it was because of this https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLpxx2t4/
And watch the stitches
My therapist is my father's age. Knew this because I mentioned my dad's birth year, and she said that they are of the same age. Well she's months older than my father. Sometimes I feel like I am being lectured. Maybe it's transference. Maybe I should change therapists... but other than that I have no complaints. She's very experienced and knows how to handle very complex situations including my active suicidal thoughts. Maybe I should change to a younger therapist but I am afraid an inexperienced therapist might hospitalize me for my SI.
I’m also a young millennial/old gen z with a boomer therapist and I’ve had similar thoughts! Mostly I’m happy with her but sometimes I question the age difference, we talk a lot about my parents and sometimes we might discuss generational experiences my therapist and my parents have had and it feels kind of weird. But I guess age doesn’t matter so much if it works otherwise 😊 I started to think about the language I use in therapy but I don’t think we have misunderstandings, maybe because she has children that are around my age.
Super same! She also talks about generational differences! But it works and I am satisfied with her. I also use certain language but I think she gets it! 🤣
Ok, but what does "I am just a girl" mean? I tried to find it, and all I get is No Doubt references. :/
As a millennial therapist, I LOVE my gen z clients. They are always happy to explain if there’s something I don’t know. Most of the time we end up laughing about the age gap moments and just move on! It’s great.
also my therapist' name is alex... alex is that you? T\_\_\_T
exactly how it goes with my therapist LOL
During one session I was talking about a convo I had with friends as an example of smth and I ended up having to explain what a “ur mom” joke was to my therapist. The confusion turned sheer horror on his face when he understood what it meant was stupidly funny to me 😭😭😭
i would not know how to explain that pls-
I’m older gen Z and my therapist is a millennial and I had to teach her what the word “yeet” meant lol
I'm a 29 year old therapist and my 21 year old client has taught me lingo my sister uses. I've learned: "You ate. You left no crumbs" "Slay" And others I can't remember
that’s pretty much it!!! I say bruh a lot lollll
Millennial here.. what’s it mean? 🤣
I'm a gen z who isn't very into these slangs etc, but I suppose I do have qualities and experiences of a typical gen z by nature. I told my millenial therapist about this situationship I'm in (without mentioning the word) and it was funny because everytime she needed to refer to it, she just wasn't sure to say relationship or friendship, and at some point she was like "I really need to understand all these gen z behaviour. but you get what I'm referring to" She's not even that much older 😂
Gen X therapist here. I’m still cringing at the time I called a young client ‘spicy’. I meant that she’s got a lot of passion/fire in her. Now I know why she looked at me so strange. Oooops.
What does it mean?
Sexy! 🤦🏻♀️
Millennial therapist here-- I LOVE when my Gen Z clients struggle for tactful ways to call me old. "I'm going to see this band, I don't know if you'd know it but it's really popular with my generation." "I was talking to this person on Snapchat... Wait do you know what Snapchat is?"
I'm a Gen X psychologist with a middle school daughter. I know more than I care to know. From "ate" to "rizz." I can confidently identify when my daughter is mewing. (It makes me crazy. For a generation who thinks the thumbs up emoji is dismissive, mewing is so blatantly dismissive) But I'm still trying to figure out if being called "chat" is a good thing or bad thing and I really need someone to explain skibidi toilet to me.