I found out yesterday that I am a year younger than I thought I was

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Somehow- I am not sure when this happened- sometime last year I guess - I jumped a year in my head. I was convinced I had turned ned 55 in September.
Was only when talking about birthdays with a friend who was born in the same year as me did they put me right. I was elated and horrified at the same time.

Time has had little meaning these last couple of years I suppose

Please say I’m not the only one to get their own age wrong ?

Lol, I did this when I was 33. Told some people at work I was 34, then realised a couple of days later. I wanted to call them and tell them immediately,😂

I do often forget still. There's a famous person who is close to my birthday, so if I can't remember I google her age.

My dad was 58 last year. This year it was 62. Hes 67

Yes, I had a friend who did this. He celebrated his 42nd birthday when he’d actually turned 41, and only realised when his next birthday came around.

At the time I put this down to his alcoholism, but reading this thread, it seems that this is actually very common!

My brother had the opposite, unlucky for him! He was adamant he was turning 57 this year...he's not, he'll be 58. Apparently it came up in conversation with SIL, he called me up all indignant to check his age while she cackled in the background

I've done this a lot, I seem to lump myself in with DH and my school friends.

DH is a year older than me and even though I was in the same school year as my close friends I'm a late summer born and they are all September/October birthdays. So when we saw them at new year recently, they were all saying 'wow it's now all of our 40th's next year!'

Ahem, it's not mine until late August 2024, thank you very much!

Sucked when we were all turning 17 and they could learn to drive nearly a year before me. Ditto for turning 18 when they all had ID for the pub and I didn't, and for 'over 21's only' places. Now were heading soon to 40 it doesn't suck anymore!! Mwah ha ha!

This thread has made me feel so much better. Although I still feel slightly disturbed, just not as much!

At least you all know what year it is (I hope!).

I was laughing at someone who is still in 2021, then I remembered I keep trying to put the year of my birth, 1960!

I've been saying I'm 40 for a whole year when actually I was 41. I'm not sure how that happened as I'm born in 1980 so obviously turned 40 in 2020, no sums to do but I think I genuinely feel as if I've missed a year because COVID and my maternity leave fell at the same time or something.