To ask when you started to feel ‘old’?

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I didn’t feel old until the birthday just gone but suddenly it’s hit me like a ton of bricks that I’m old now and getting older fast!
I don’t know if it’s like a mid life crisis but time suddenly seems to have sped up and be running out. I no longer feel like there are a lot of opportunities for me and this time is now just ‘waiting time.’
It’s very depressing!

It is because when you do get old there is a lot of social pressure to say you still feel very young.

I dunno. I could be wrong but I don't think posters here are saying things because of social 'pressure'.

I think it's more likely that age is relative. Maybe it's that the young-ish posters are comparing themselves to even younger people, and the older posters to even older people?

I did the online test and it put me as 10 years younger, but I also did a
Physical set of tests at my gym a few weeks ago and that test put me as 15 years younger, so I’d take that with a pinch of salt.

I never feel old till I come into contacts with 20 year olds and then I realise how out of touch I am

I'm only 31 btw but I feel there is quite a generation gap (and an even bigger one between me and my DPs generation)

This year. I'm 47.

Everything aches. I'm crushingly exhausted. I have brain fog. My eye bags have increased. I think I'm describing a lot of the menopause, or at least the peri-menopause.

I still feel rebellious at times and unconventional. I still hear sings from the 80's on the radio and feel 16 again!

This year, at 56, but only because the big M is giving me sleepless nights and painful joints.

Last year so 37, knees went and doctor told me stopping running was the only thing that would save me getting a replacement, back went, started getting rosacea and arthritis and hair more noticably greying

45/46. Not that i feel old inside, but they I suddenly and undeniably am starting to look old in my face and body. I expected the face, but my body ageing at this age is a huge unexpected blow. Creasing, wrinkling, sagging. I hate it.

It is depressing.
When you started out unattractive to begin with the aging process really doesn’t help!
My mother said when everyone got older it would level the playing field it that was a lie!
I feel about 136 today.

@GrassIsntGreener I even have a dress from Marks and Spencer.

LMFAO!

I'm 33 and I definitely don't feel old. But having children does age you. It's not just my own sorry ass I have to worry about; now I have to worry about DC too. Responsibility sucks.

When I started making groaning noises every time I get out of bed...Downhill fast from about 40 I reckon. The other day I crouched down to talk to a seated old lady at work, and quite literally couldn't get up without holding on to her chair for leverage. I thought "this is it, I'm officially an old fart".

63 this year and still waiting. Life is too short to waste it feeling old

I’m 46 and I don’t feel old. I’ve got a 7 year old DD who I think helps me feel younger. I’m also the slimmest and fittest I’ve ever been in my adult life at the moment which helps.

I am in the best shape I have been for a while. I take really good care of myself, I am fit. I am a natural blond, with the few grey hairs hidden in the underneath areas, skin good. I have no medical problems. I am going through menopause, but it has not been a big transition for me. So, looks wise, health wise I feel the same as I ever did.

The worse thing about getting older is my natural tendency to cynicism is threatening to overtake me. I have lost my sense of wonder, I suspect people's motives and life seems to get narrower. I am engaged with the world and interested in a range of stuff. But I think options narrow as you get older, the world no longer feels my oyster. Whilst I still have confidence in myself I am worried about my future, what will happen when I age, will I need care, what about income? And that cynicism and worry makes me feel old sometimes, though I fight it.

When I told my teenage son to turn his music down in his bedroom!

I do wonder how all those who seem to view not being old with being healthy and fit, view people who are disabled or chronically ill? Are they automatically in the old past it category?

I think when your body won't do everything you need it to and when something hurts in your body all the time. So in my case 55.

No I don't think being disabled or chronically ill means old and past it.

The question was about how you feel as an individual. I've been ill this last year, had to rely on others, not do what I normally do, so I don't feel myself. Chuck in the menopause. Its a more a state of mind. Somedays I feel old, somedays I don't. I feel less old than I did last week because I'm feeling better.
I don't look at disabled or chronically ill as a homogenous group.
A child can be disabled or chronically ill. They are obviously not old. Disabled does not mean ill or incapcitated. There are plenty of disabled people participating in sport for example, your average paralympian will knock spots off of us.