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

[Heavenly44]

When people starting pointing out grey hairs on Me.

When I visited my DM and she pointed out a guy in his 20s just getting into his Mini. Last time I had seen him he was 7 and kicking a ball against our back garden wall.

Also (back in the 1980s) I can recall a whole office where I worked feeling very old the day our new junior member of staff announced they were born after England won the World Cup.

When I realise that the new teachers at work are younger than my eldest child.

@Cherrytreepuddle

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.

this 🤣

I’m a nurse on a specialist adult ward - we generally only admit patients over the age of 16 at the youngest. It was when I started realising that I was admitting patients born AFTER I’d qualified. That was a shock!

Also the changes in eyesight and the choosing not to drink alcohol.

Also my bladder and pelvic floor are pretty shit these days.

Talking to a younger member of the team about the series Sex Education and saying how much I liked Gillian Anderson as Scully in The X Files. She had NO IDEA WHAT THE X FILES WAS. That really made me feel ancient!

Mid 40's when I felt I was getting a bit stiff and getting up iff the floor was more difficult than it had been when I was younger

Yesterday, when I looked at all the presents under the tree and felt very lucky, but then inwardly groaned at having to find a place for all the new "stuff".

Also last night, grinning soppily at The Bee Gees "One Night Only" and thinking it was relatively recent (I remember watching it), before Wikipedia informed me that it was filmed 23 years ago! Fucking hell...where did that time go.

On my 33rd birthday dh treated me to a lovely spa experience and during the massage the therapist offered helpful advice on products for mature skin

When a friend in her late 40’s was complaining about her menopause symptoms and I realised how long ago it was that I went through similar. I’ll be 67 in a couple of weeks time ....

(Yikes .... just writing that last sentence has made me feel old all over again )

When i stopped buying new music and only listen to old stuff

When I tried to go on the monkey bars at the playground and was shocked at how hard it was. I'm only in my 30s but clearly not as nimble as I was when I was at primary school!

When I realised I no longer recognise half the tv, SM and radio celebrities

Seeing photos
Gah !!!!!

I'm 34 felt 'older' since about 30 but think that's a lot to do with working in a High School.

Student asked me if I knew what 'pogger' meant, me and another teacher in their 30s admitting we had no idea but reminiscing about pogs and how you used to get Tazos in your crisps "Isn't that a choking hazard, Miss?" and feeling about 80 explaining how we played them.

When policemen and others in places of authority started to look about 12.

When I realised the boots I was wearing and had bought whilst at Uni were older than the High School students I was teaching.

The back of my hands seem to have lost some elasticity.

I'm not short 5ft 7 and size 7 feet, my yr6, 11 year old Dd reached the same shoe size as me and same height recently (and if I lost weight we could share clothes).

At 48 when I used a Facebook selling site to buy a doll for my daughter and the seller asked if it was for my grandchild.

It wasn't an unreasonable assumption but I still had preteens at home.

When a student referenced the "late 20 th century" meaning 1996 when I was 10!

Studebts learn about 9/11 in history.

My 11 year old asking why TVs used to come in big cabinets, what was the giant box bit for on the TV in the shed and what it was like watching only B+W.

Now at 28. My skin is starting to get leathery and there are small lines at the sides of my mouth that wont disappear easily after I smile. Theres also something different about my eyes that doesn't look quite youthful anymore. It's sad.

When you think workmen at the traffic lights are checking you out but they are in fact checking out your friend who is younger and always looks fabulous even when she leaves the gym .

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

Urgh the optician said my eyes were getting worse with age because I was "over 40" ...(by a few months)
I tried to ignore the pointing out my age part because because he was just pretty patronising all round. He wanted me to sign up to their contact lens scheme despite being able to get the same thing way cheaper on line. He said if i only wore them 3 days a week it would work out cheaper... well duh, they're still more expensive per pair! And he said wearing glasses was easier than I thought... erm I dont not wear glasses because its difficult (it's way easier to put glasses on than contacts!) It's just cos I found it annoying.
I do actually wear my glasses more regularly now but thankfully have seen a different optician since then!

@PetertheWalrus

When I visited my DM and she pointed out a guy in his 20s just getting into his Mini. Last time I had seen him he was 7 and kicking a ball against our back garden wall.

When I was 24 when I wasn't ID for alcohol
And it was that age when a mum said to their DC say thank you to the lady when I was in the supermarket.

The latter happened again the other day albeit a few years later and i still looked round thinking they didn't mean me did they

@Fizbosshoes

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

Urgh the optician said my eyes were getting worse with age because I was "over 40" ...(by a few months)
I tried to ignore the pointing out my age part because because he was just pretty patronising all round. He wanted me to sign up to their contact lens scheme despite being able to get the same thing way cheaper on line. He said if i only wore them 3 days a week it would work out cheaper... well duh, they're still more expensive per pair! And he said wearing glasses was easier than I thought... erm I dont not wear glasses because its difficult (it's way easier to put glasses on than contacts!) It's just cos I found it annoying.
I do actually wear my glasses more regularly now but thankfully have seen a different optician since then!

My DP told me that directly I start wearing reading glasses my eyes would deteriorate from that point on. So on his advice I continue to read to my son his fiction books with crazy small print and I can now do so easily. It’s something to do with flexing the muscle. Anyway I’m going to put it off as long as possible.

When a lovely young woman stood up to offer me her seat on the tube - I honestly didn't realise what she was doing! I was still working, barely 60 and in London for a conference. 🤷🏼‍♀️

When I ache after sitting on the floor to wrap presents.

Oh and when I binge watched a cookery series

I'm in my early 30s but feel old. My body is always aching, I find it hard to kneel, I avoid alcohol because the hangover is too much to bear and my eyesight isn't what it was. I prefer staying home to going out and I am always shocked by how long ago the 90s were. I do look about 12 so always get id-ed. I am 'lady' when I'm with dd, usually I'm 'girl' if not. Despite my young face, I am getting wrinkles and my skin just doesn't seem as fresh or elastic as it used to be. I feel like I'm in a weird transition stage between child and grown woman.