When did you first realize that you were "getting older"?

[Heavenly44]

When people starting pointing out grey hairs on Me.

When people would say things like 'mind that lady!' to their kids when they walked into me etc.

Also when I started to look like my mother...

When I stopped drinking alcohol without realising, because the night was never fun enough to justify the near death hangover.
Sometimes I miss the old me.

Age 28 wondering whether my shorts were too short for the school run because I might have grown some cellulite

Just like the optician said my eyesight would deteriorate
Same as everything else!
41-43!

When you stop being id'd regularly or when people don't hand you leaflets in the street for club nights but instead give you specialist sofa sales.

When I became a gurlady. Shopping in Tesco a young Mum pulled her child gently out of my way and said "mind the gir......lady" as she looked up at my face. The French go to "madame" too.

When I talked about my favourite bands growing up to my Gen Z cousin, and mentioned Destiny's Child. She was SHOCKED that Beyoncé had been in a girl band.

A few months ago I stopped being able to stretch up high to switch off the kitchen fan because every time I do I get leg cramps. Now I understand why many older people seem shorter than their younger selves.
I only just turned 40 in October!

When I started drinking Advocaat at Christmas, like my Dad used to.

And when a 20 something young optician warned me that older eyes need looking after!.
That really made me stop and think as both of my best friends are quite a bit older than me and always called me the spring chicken of the group and here was this young man calling me old

35

I'd had a few, e.g. becoming longsighted, getting mild OA in my knees.

Then when people I was at school with were be coming grandmothers.

But the icing on the cake was age 48, and told I had a fibroid so huge only a hysterectomy would treat it. I don't have kids, did want them but they didn't happen, but remember saying to the doctor at the hospital that and we said at the same time if it hadnt happened ay 48 it wasnt going to. Which actually made the decision easier.

A few things, but the best one happened just last week.

Got on a double decker bus, but had to sit upstairs, despite wearing a lanyard and using a stick, but anyway, when it was my stop, near one of the universities here, a young student lad asked me "Do you need a hand down the stairs"

Another one is the bus driver lowering the bus automatically, without me asking, while getting on or off the bus

When my dad died and I realised I was older than he was when I was born.

When my dad started teasing me about being nearly 50...on my 40th birthday 😂

When I became a gurlady
I'm closer to 50 than 40 but have recently gone back to being called signorina rather than Signora thanks to the amazing camouflaging powers of face masks!

For me, it was realising that it was hard to bend down and get back up. I started asking my kids to pick things up for me - bad sign!

When you listen to "the classics" on the radio and its Madonna singing Papa don't preach 😪😪

When my face started to slip off my fucking skull. I’m melting like that witch in the wizard of Oz

When I realised I was the oldest person in the office at work. I didn’t like it. I feel like as a woman you become invisible when you hit 50.

When I realised that I was using the 'manual zoom' to see stuff... you know, when you hold something in front of your face and move it back and forth until it eventually comes into focus!

When cheeky Spanish bartenders called me “Senorita” in a very ironic tone - aged 64

Melty face

Doing the thing where you take your glasses off to read small writing or hold it out to the length of your arm (completely counterintuitive after 35 years of being short-sighted).

Both happened around 43-44.

Last week when I went for a facial and the therapist said "I'll just go over these fine lines near your eyes" im 38

When staff at work look 12, managers are in their 20’s.
When staff are documenting their date of birth as in the 90’s.

When my kids started talking to me about Minecraft and showing it to me and I didn’t understand a thing they were saying!