To think at 25 I shouldn’t be called a young person

[User300100]

I’ve been out of university for four years now. I work in a professional career and have a one year old daughter. Today at work I was referred to as a young person by colleague. When I think of young people I think of people who are just getting started in life.

Well you are young,it's up there with being annoyed at getting asked to for IF to prove your old enough to drink at 45 I would be delighted to be asked for ID, however I get what your saying at 25 I was a fully qualified nurse with a couple of years experience it did annoy me a little when relatives would ignore me and speak to.older unqualified colleagues assuming they were in charge but I guess that's just life .

I'm the youngest person in the office (everyone else is 40+) and they always call me young. I'm 29 in a few months. Can't say it bothers me at all, I'd rather be thought of as young than old! I didn't go to university, I started working at 16. Was living independently at 17 and I'm divorced with a child so I've got a fair bit of life experience anyway for my young years.

What else are you?

You are young. It's just a fact. It's not an insult.

"MsChookandtheelvesofFahFah

The fact that you are annoyed about it shows how young you are grin"
Very patronising

Young person's discounts usually apply to The UN defines "youth" as 18-24 and UN statistics on youth (unemployment, health etc) are based on the so yay User300100 the UN doesn't think you're young, you stopped being young last year - does that make you happy? Or do you feel a midlife crisis approaching, complete with the need to buy a second hand Mazda MX-5, start clubbing again, and have an embarrassing affair with an unsuitable younger man and have your nipples pierced in an attempt to recapture your lost youth?

Oops part of that got swallowed - young person's discounts often apt to 16-26 year olds but the UN defines youth as 18-24, so User300100 can celebrate being no longer young

This is a bizarre thing to be offended about.

You do gain life experience in different ways as you grow older, that's just a fact. Acknowledging that doesn't mean your perspective isn't valuable, it's just different.

Ffs

I'm 25 and have no issue being referred to as a young person. The years have flown by since I left my teens, i'd like to hang on to the 'young' label as long as possible

"I consider a young person 18-25."

So a 26-year old isn't young for you?
Young person is until 30. Lots of youth organisations go up to 30.

Being young and being mature aren't the same thing... you can be young and mature... and old and immature... you are still young.

You'll know you are no longer young when you take being called young as a compliment

It's all relative, OP. To me (63) 25 is young. If I was 30, I probably wouldn't think so.

Don't read too much into it!

Actually, is 63 old, or am I still middle-aged?

I don't feel old!

LakieLady I'm not sure it's anything to do with how you feel though - a 20 year old with lifelong health problems might feel constantly exhausted and achy and struggle to get out of the house, and a fit and well 70 year old might be full of the joys of spring but that doesn't change which one of them is young. Health and wealth impact massively on how people feel and act but don't change how young or old anyone is.

The cult of youth has so much to answer for, I wish more people would embrace being old and make it as positive a label as young - or better yet make it neutral, a reference merely to the passage of time and shared experience of periods of history, of knowing exactly how we survived without mobile phones, of having been lucky enough to go to university in a time of universal non repayable maintenance grants and buy s house on one wage, but unlucky enough to have started your family before the introduction of maternity leave or when it was still only available to a few women ...

I am 29 and I still get called young enjoy it!

Bit stupid to get annoyed by it.

That's the problem with the op - having "been through a lot" and had a child quite young doesn't make you older than someone else born on the same day. It might make you more mature. It very well might not though, that's dependent on how you handled those things. For most people getting pregnant isn't in and of itself a sign of maturity!

I'm 61 (fucking hell writing that down) and work in a place with plenty of active over seventies and eighties ..i love it there cos it's the last place in the world where I get called 'boy'..(am indeed a chap )

This reminds me of me throughout my late teens to late twenties, when I would get THE RAGE at being asked for ID all the time. There was nothing complimentary about being mistaken for a child. I wanted to thump every damn eejit who told me "you'll be glad of it when you're older."

Guess what? I'm now 40, and all those damn eejit were right. The bastards.

I'm 34 --and I still binge drink like I'm 17

You still tick the 18-25 box in surveys. You’re a young person 😆.

I’m in the 35+ box now. I am oooollldddd.

OP you are one of the ‘professionally offended’ that one hears about quite often.
As already said age and maturity are very different.

You are young! Enjoy it.

I was very grown up and In a responsible job at 25 but now I’m 40 I realise just how much more maturing I had to do!

It's all relevant. 25 is young technically speaking the first third of your life.

Funniest age related comments I remember. Lady in late 70s discussing the young ones ( who were in their 60s).
A man tell me his boy was 70 (think how old he was).

All relevant to the age of the person who said it.

Who knew middle age started at 25 .

I’m 44.... so guess on that basis I positively geriatric and can only expect to have a few years left