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?
At one point or the other you have to start actively forgetting it - which, as it turns out, I’m quite good at. Unfortunately, a whole bunch of people show up once a year to undo all my effort.
Growing old sucks.
Yup, that’s not too weird.
Just wait until the person that reminds you how old you are is no longer there. My mom used to remind me, so I’m somewhere between 30 and 50
I started losing track in my late 20s, sometimes I would think I was +/-1 my real age. I just checked my age now and I’m one year younger than I thought I was. Woohoo!
When you’re 53, yeah pretty much normal.
I forgot and somehow managed to convince myself I was a year older + told people that age all least year until my SO made me do the math LOL. tbh unless you’re talking to the doctor or your date I don’t think it really matters after a certain point.
Seems a bit early, but yeah, completely normal. As an adult, you no longer put as much stock in birthdays and neither does anyone else. It sucks sometimes, but it’s not important to life, so whatever.
On the other hand, I was watching a documentary the other day and it hit me that I just passed the average life expectancy of that society, so …. Shit
Think of it this way - you beat that society! In a “that society vs you” contest, you’re in charge, you’re the boss, the head man, the top dog, the big cheese, the head honcho, the number one…
I always have to do the math to figure out my age.
Mostly because I dont celebrate birthdays or make any fuss about growing ever more one day closer to death.
I’ve been getting it wrong since I was around 23. It’s often a case of “hang on, am I 23 or 24?” where I’m off by one year. It was easier during university because I knew of my peers’ ages and that made my age mean something relative to them. Now, age doesn’t come up regularly at all, so I’m more likely to forget and have to work it out as you describe
Started for me at 21. Also terrible with names, but I’ve never thought of that being related.
A few months ago I was doing dishes and for some reason thought about my age and I literally couldn’t remember if I’d hit 50 yet. Had to do the math to remember I’m 45 and that’s quite a ways off. That’s an outlier for sure, but yeah I forget.
It just doesn’t come up often. There are fewer ands fewer markers. Before your 20s you’ve got hitting double digits, becoming a teenager, sweet 16, becoming an “adult”, then not being a teenager any more. In your 20s you’ve got becoming an adult again (and maybe being able to drink if 21 is your drinking age), and then maybe saving money on insurance at 25 if that even matters to you. Then nothing. You might demarcate 30, but nothing really changes. In many senses now it’s “just a number” and the individual increments fail to matter. There’s no differential reinforcement to remembering where you are on the number line.
When nobody, not even yourself, make a big deal about your birthday yeah. Happens to me all the time. I just turned 39, 2 weeks ago and before that I wasn’t sure if I was going to be 39 or 40 without doing some math.
I knew my exact age at all times between 4 and 18. Or maybe even 19. Afterwards I always needed to calculate. And it became less and less important.
I do this all the time. I’m 28 and about to be 29 next month, but I have to think about it to be absolutely certain. When I was less than 21, though, I could tell you my exact age, whenever you asked, no problem.
I’ve gotten a funny look from the security attendant at the casino when I took a few seconds to answer my age when he was looking at my ID.
