Personally, I am millennial and of all of my friends, I am the only one who is still living with my parents.

My other friends have children, husbands and lives outside of their parents' homes these days. I feel that's because in American culture, it's practically beaten into you that as soon as you turn 18 you leave the house, find a job, and as soon as you turn 20, you get married, move to the suburbs, have children, hate your life, get divorced and everything goes downhill.

I live with my parents because I have a mental health condition that makes it hard for me to work, (not saying I don't work, I do!) and I have a dream that I am trying to reach for, but can't get there on my own without the support of my parents.

People, (older people) act like it's such a crime for someone not to go to school, not to want to get married, have a baby, work a "regular" job, etc. It's NOT a crime. Just because we don't want to live our lives in the mundane life that you lived doesn't make us lazy or irresponsible. I get it if people are being lazy and mooching off their parents, but I see that happening more with older people 40s, 50s, NOT millennials. MOST millennials I know are out there, working, paying for their own apartments, married with children and living successful lives that most of these older folks can't imagine.