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

[Heavenly44]

When people starting pointing out grey hairs on Me.

@Europilgrim oooh please could you share what brand face masks?

Last year when my reading glasses became a necessity for reading labels. I bought some ice cream earlier today and had to hold the tub an arms length away to read the best before date.

I’m 46 so I’ve really been older for a while, but not being able to read small print really rubs it in. I don’t want glasses on a chain around my neck, thank you.😂

When I bring my trolley bag to the shops I feel ancient. I don't mind getting old if I'm honest. It's a milestone a lot of my relatives never reached. I find I'm generally less likely to give a shit and quite enjoy being a bit invisible.

4 things recently....
I had a facial and the nice young girl kept talking about my sun damage and 'age lines"
Lockdown made me realise I need my hairdresser regularly for the grey stripe.
White wine gives me heartburn, just like it did my mum!
I recently started to need glasses. The optician circled my age and told me it will only get worse.

Mines a bit of a weird one but when I was a kid only my dad was allowed in the loft as it was just rafters and no boards down. In my late twenties I went home to visit my parents and my dad asked me if I could put some stuff up in the loft for him as he can't manage the ladder any more. It gave my head a wobble and made me really think about getting old.

When I started getting grey hair then sprouting the odd hair on my chin!! Also not being able to sit cross legged anymore without feeling very uncomfortable. I need a chair!

Early 40s and my memory isn't as great. Forget things like name of a shop I rarely go in. Is that normal.

When I realised my dad looks like my gran and I look like my dad.

I visit America most years. It was the transition from being called miss to ma’am that hit me

When I realised men had stopped giving me a second glance in public (and their comments) - something I used to hate until I realised it no longer happened. But, after going through the transitionary periods of young, middle-aged, and 'old', I've realised the transitionary periods are the worst. Now I'm 'invisible' I miss the attention I used to get. But, reaching a period of acceptance; I like that I now don't care if people disapprove of how I look or dress. I wish I was still attracting the admiring glances and the attention, but if I can no longer compete with younger women I can just not care about that side of things. I'm still the same person, the same inside, but I'm not about whether I look physically attractive to the outside world.

@FuckOffBorisYouTwat

When reading this thread and people in their 30s think they are older...

Absolutely!

At almost fifty I think I'm pushing it however I would say the point you catch your reflection in the mirror and it appears you've borrowed your neck from your Nan.

Crap joints started around age 35.
Since then, I've graduated to the pop sock wearing, grey-haired but also balding minge, along with hairlines descending everywhere and the inevitable sagging (if only it was just my face and breasts!)
I've also enjoyed the delight of multiple prolapses.
Thankfully, I'm now at the point where I still care about my appearance, but at the same time don't give a shit what other people think about me. That at least is an advantage.

When I am left out of conversations at work between younger people, they thinik I have no interest in what they're saying. Quite sad.

My first Zoom call, which was this year. I turned on the screen and there was a middle aged woman on the screen, and she was wearing the same outfit as me!

When all radio stations are too ‘busy’ and only Smooth or Classic FM will do.

Also, when you’re pleasantly surprised by your car insurance renewal.
Around 38

30

When I noticed odd stray pubic hairs 😂

36. When I needed a zimmer frame.

I stopped getting IDed when buying alcohol. I hated the Challenge 25 policy, but I now look old enough to be waved through without a second glance.

I wore nineties fashion again (a dark slip dress over a ribbed white T-shirt) and felt daft.

The reflection of my face in my phone’s black screen. Aaaaaargh! It shows up twice as many wrinkles as I thought I had.

When my upper eylids got too tired to stay up.

When all the little babies in the family are now going uni. How and when the fuck did that happen? I was a kid too when I was holding them as a baby 😯

When my cataracts were diagnosed.

When the young girls in my local shop call me "love".
As in "can you manage that, love"

Doing jury duty and realising the police officers giving evidence were MUCH younger than me