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

[Heavenly44]

When people starting pointing out grey hairs on Me.

@romany4

When I started pulling muscles farting or sneezing

This!

I often pull muscles doing absolutely fuck all these days.

When I realised Macaulay Culkin is 40 years old! He's still a child surely?

@DownstairsMixUp

I'm 33 and not yet... how long do I have left 😂

I’m less than 10 years older than you .... the clock is ticking

Aged 49, my 12 year old had his life saved by someone who could have been in year 7 himself and his slightly senior counterpart who might have been in year 11.

I'm 72, when I feel old, I'll let you know!

@atjustanotherneighin paradise > '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.'

Not convinced about this. It may be you just don't particularly have longsight problems yet. I had laser surgery in the 90s for short-sightedness. My distance vision is now still pretty much 20/20. I was told I'd more likely need reading glasses earlier, but my choice was to worry about that later; and that would be preferable to not being able to read anything more than several yards away without putting on my glasses (vain 37 year old). My short-sightedness certainly didn't improve because I only wore my glasses when I had no choice. In my 50s I finally succumbed to reading glasses (because I love reading in bed). For several years I used the cheap, off-the-shelf, supermarket ones - worked fine for me. But eventually I succumbed and got myself some optician prescribed glasses. Still use the supermarket ones, but the more I use my exact prescription ones the less I need them - for menus, labels, supermarket packaging, etc. I'm of an age where I will always need reading glasses, but I can't agree wearing glasses for short or long-sight makes your eyesight deterioate quicker.

When I swiped the screen upwards multiple times to get to the year I was born .

When I went to the West End with my children and they were watching out for me when we crossed the road.

When, as a pp said, I looked in the mirror and saw my mum.

When I sneezed/coughed and farted at the same time.

It’s not happened yet and I’m 35

But I was probably old before my time and so have been what other people
Would consider getting old at 21

In my culture, people who are significantly older than you are called 'aunty/uncle' and someone young would be called 'sister/brother'. I distinctly remember when a teenager from my culture called me 'aunty' and I suddenly realised I was starting to look my age 🙈.

When I realised I couldn’t just jump up from the floor anymore. And sitting for long periods on the floor absolutely cripple me now 😢

When I met a real surgeon who looked like a toddler with a scalpel.

When I wake up at 8 on a sunday and think "oh god it's late"

When I shudder when someone asks me if I want to go to clubbing

When I have a long conversation about kitchen sinks and worktops with a friend.

When I go to Coop and get excited because there's a new issue of the free recipe magazine.

When I have to scroll down a loooong way to find my year of birth on online forms.

Oh and when a colleague saw my spotify and asked "Primal Scream? What is it? Never heard of them"

And when I realised that Chuck D from Public Enemy is 60 now 😱

@PickyPolly I was born in 91 and will soon be 30! Its more shocking when people born in the 00s are in the workplace!
Mine is any time I talk to my goddaughter and she looks at me like I'm missing braincells for not knowing who her favourite YouTubers/Tiktok people are

My eyesight and my knees told me. Around 50

Yesterday around 1am. Talking to my teen and I had to realise that his (and his generation's) whole outlook on life is so different from my generation's. Not as far from mine, but still there is a distance that takes effort to bridge.

Not in a judgmental way, more like when you suddenly see clearly how their ideals/relationships/communication is so different than yours. Some of it I welcome, some I find disturbing and some are just plain stupid :) Obv. I didn't point out the last one.

Turkey neck, aches and pains, ‘old people’ ailments, husband looking ‘old’ (he’s 4 years older than me - I knew I generally preferred younger men for a reason!), some friends turning 60, having an ‘adult’ child.

I tried running for a bus and looked like a tubby middle aged women trotting along instead of the svelt athlete that now only lives in my head.

When I read Christmas Jumpers' thread and clocked she was only three years older than DS . Apart from that, when shoes that lacked support, had pointy toes or were higher that 1inch became vehicles of torture.

Last year when my hips started to really hurt and I don't have enough movement in them now to put my socks on easily, I can't get up off the floor or bend down without difficulty. I'm only 44. My mum started with arthritis in her hips around my age and I'm worried it's that.

When I catch a glimpse of myself and see my mum or looking at my hands and seeing how old they look! I'm 44

Btw I’m pushing 50 and don’t need reading glasses yet!

When @memarmiteyoujam described me as "hurtling towards my 30s" HURTLING

That and watching tik toc videos of young eyelashes with girls attached showing people videos of what they are all day?! What is the point? Also, come 29 you'll not be able to eat 4 slices of white toast, 3 chocolate bars, coke and a pizza everyday and stay a size 8 mwahahaha *clutches her brown bread and 2 squares of dark chocolate"

@bettydaviseyes1

When *@memarmiteyoujam* described me as "hurtling towards my 30s" HURTLING

That and watching tik toc videos of young eyelashes with girls attached showing people videos of what they are all day?! What is the point? Also, come 29 you'll not be able to eat 4 slices of white toast, 3 chocolate bars, coke and a pizza everyday and stay a size 8 mwahahaha *clutches her brown bread and 2 squares of dark chocolate"

I have inadvertently offended so many people in this thread.

Only hits me when I look in the mirror (I am looking very tired and puffy these days) or when someone says how old I am (I’m 41). Most of the time I forget and feel young (which obviously I’m not 😂)