I’m still in my 20s, but as of a few years ago I started forgetting what’s my exact age. I always have to stop and recalculate it each time someone asks me. I get asked fairly infrequently, but when I do it’s a bit weird/embarrassing that I have to say “wait, let me calculate”. (I know when I was born, of course.)
It seems as if there’s no good reason I’d remember it, since it changes all the time and it is rarely mentioned in practice. But others, including people much older than myself, know their own age immediately.
I’m also terrible at remembering people’s names, I don’t know if that could be related?
This is normal. As a kid, you’re asked about your age much more often, and you’re often thinking about it as you look forward to hitting milestones - reaching a certain grade, your next birthday, legal age for driving, voting, drinking, and so on. Once you’re in your mid to late 20s it starts to matter a lot less, and people tend to have to do math, or if you’re like me, just ask your spouse.
You’re not alone, I started not really remembering around that time too… Birthdays just weren’t a big deal anymore and there was so little call to bring it up once I was old enough to legally buy alcohol.
Eventually, you get to the point where you’d like to forget, and you may ask yourself, how did I get here?
No it’s not weird, it happened to me at times. It’s good that you’re not thinking about your age so much that it’s so familiar if that makes sense. I don’t make a big deal of birthdays and my age isn’t a big deal to me.
You’ll likely remember better in those years when you hit a 0 though.
People may misunderstand what you’re saying too. For me it’d be “wait am I 27 or 28 this year?” And have to do a quick calculation. Not “I can’t remember how old I am at all”.
I usually have to stop and think about it, not recalculate it but it takes a few seconds for the query to run.
I’m not big on celebrating my birthday, I just kind of check off some milestones
Old enough to drive, vote, drink, rent a car, run for president (not quite there yet, look for me on the 2028 ballot though) get an AARP membership, retire, and then that’s pretty much it, then I’ll coast the last couple of decades of my life no longer needing to know how old I am.
After 21, the only age milestones are reminders of how much closer to inevitable death you are. It’s good to forget.
After 40 it no longer really matters. Old people or people your age don’t like talking about our age because it reminds us that we’re at the back end of life. And young people just automatically look at us like we’re old … because we are!
Whenever someone asks me now, I just tell them I don’t know. And if they insist, I give them a number anywhere from 45 to 49. And once I reach 50, I’ll just tell people I’m old and not to bother me about it.
The only reason I remember that I’m 64 is that I will be 65 on my next birthday. That’s kind of a milestone for a number of reasons and it’s easy to remember. The same was true when I was about to turn 50. Other than that, anything after 30 is kind of blurry
I occasionally forget mine, too, but I was fortunate in that I was born in 1970, so it’s really easy to calculate it on the fly.
I don’t forget, but in my twenties I starts doing this thing where as soon as the calendar turned over I’d start adding the next year even though my birthday isn’t until March.
My birthday never changes, but my age changes every year. I forget it for like 9 months of the year.
I have an august birthday and I keep forgetting sometimes until like January or something of next year then I just go have another and the cycle repeats
I went from saying 20 something to saying 30 something and I’ll brobably keep it up each decade but after 50 I’ll just say old. Actually I already say old more often then not.
It’s more important how you feel. so if you can keep up with the 30-somethings in your 50-somethings, might as well not rub it in, right?
I’m exactly the same! Nice to know I’m not the only one.
In all seriousness, once you’re of age the exact number rarely matters and isn’t often used so I’m more surprised people actually remember it.
I had a birthday and thought I was 28 for about 6 months, until my younger brother had a birthday and said that he was 27. I know that I am 2 years older than him, so I said that he had made a mistake.
It turns out that I had my own age wrong for those 6 months.
Every year after 40, I’ve been surprised at some point that I’m not 40 anymore
Not unusual at all.
Lifehack: when someone asks your age, just reply “I was born in 2001”
Let them calculate
This is great if ur born januari maybe but if someone told me “oh so you’re 30” when I say 1994, I wil jump ||I have been advised not to finish this||
