That is not what sociopath means, and it is exactly the sort of thing that a real sociopath would say. Actually, the kids who bullied me at school did say that to me, when I failed to ignore them and they finally got a response out of me.
Besides, athletes drop out because of physical injuries all the time and what is the brain if it isn’t a physical part of your body?
I was born at the end of 1979, and I consider him to be part of a much older generation. Probably something before the Lost Generation.
I might be an oddity though as I feel my experiences fit with older millennials better than Gen X. I feel like I got the worst of both generations, cold war paranoia and losing all the safety nets that older generations had.