To ask when did you realise you are old?

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My son just changed my phone settings for me so the font is big and I can read everything. I'm just turned 43 and I just felt properly old for the first time. Boo! I'm waiting for new glasses which should help but I've always had perfect vision until the last couple of years. Poor me

What was it that made you realise you are no longer a youngster? Please.help me feel less alone in my sudden dotage!

When I realised I was the same age as the Prime Minister.
The one before the last one.

When my son's life was saved by an apparently 12 year old doctor.

When my younger sister became a grandmother. Of course that made me a great auntie. I'm Great Auntie Barbara.

WTF, I'm in my 40s and still go to gigs and get stuck in in the mosh pit. In normal times obviously.

I often see nice eye shadow pallets, then I realise I can barely even see my upper eyelids anymore anyway.

Years ago, I hit the age where I would no longer go out out without a coat.

Probably when I mentioned that I last worked in an intensive care unit in 1986, to work mates, a few giggled and said they weren’t born yet.
I had a patient who was 98 recently. I asked him if he felt old and if so , at what age. He replied that he felt old at 92, so I am using this as my new reference point. You are old at 92!

Oh my god yes my poor vanishing eyelids!

I haven't realised yet. I'm 52.

When my hip was broken by a reckless driver recently and just about everyone at the hospital kept saying "aw, bless you" - with a head tilt - every time they saw me

Turned out they assumed I was just another old lady (I'm only in my sixties) who'd taken a fall, which was understandable in a way since I was in a bay full of them ... but I was ready to clout the next person who said it

When I started getting excited about foam spray cleaners, my carpet cleaner and my shark hoover.

When I was taking my kids swimming a few years ago. We were in our family cubicle changing and there were a group of girls outside - probably about 12-14 YO. They had finished changing and were trying to find each other. One of them was calling out to her friend "Jane, Jane, where is you!? Where is you?". And I shouted out "It's 'Jane, where ARE you!". That was the point I realised I was old.

I'm 47 and I'm suddenly starting to realise my own mortality. My Mum died at 69 so that only gives me 22 years. She had dementia which can be hereditary add that to the fact I'm thinking of moving and would still need a small mortgage, I can now only get X years.

I'm really starting to feel a bit scared about the whole thing plus my knees hurt, I groan when I get up and I can't read small print or see further than the ending my garden properly

It happened to my husband in his 30s. He was sat on the tube opposite a pair of irritating snogging teenagers who really needed to get a room and were p!ssing him off and then looked down at the Metro tv page and was excited to see that Gardeners World was on that night. The "old fart" epiphany hit him like a sledgehammer.

Oh and we went to the science museum 2 years ago and there's a section containing mobile phones, computers, games consoles and I was laughing with my daughter as I'd owned pretty much each mobile phone at some point.... I also think dvds are a recent thing and my dd didn't know what one was

When I realised I was working with people who hadn't been born when Friends first aired. Which meant I was old enough to be the mother of someone I worked with.

@BigSandyBalls2015

DH's cousins are about 20 years younger than us but I've always thought we've got on very well, similar outlook, I didn't really think that they viewed as 'much older' ..... until I opened a bottle bag one Christmas to find a bottle of sherry

This is one of the saddest things about ageing! I see the women at work between 30 and 35 as other women. They are funny and smart and I can relate to them, but they look at me and see a 50 year old woman and don't relate to me which I'm oblivious to until some small unintentional reminder makes me face it!

I became a grandmother in my mid thirties. So feeling old is all relevant really. But I became a MIL at 45.

That made me feel old!

And at Christmas sat next to my 42 year old DS and realised he was going grey.

For a start how did he get to be 42!

And how am I in my 60 next month!

The "old fart" epiphany hit him like a sledgehammer

And let's not even start on technology; a similar incident was when I had to get my DS - my quite severely learning disabled DS - to show me how to use the ruddy DVD

Music today is all noise

When i drop something on the floor i decide whether its worth my while to get down and then get up again.

When I was reviewing CVs and came across someone with my birthday - and exactly half my age!

Half of these stories are about young people and their lack of experience! And we used to be like them!

But now we are wiser and see things differently. Me, I like being 46. I've had the odd comment about aging. But I'm focussing on looking good as opposed to young, I've made small changes here are there and I get plenty of sleep.

Taking care of the body is a definite need these days, but happy to say I'm not that creaky yet. And I updated my hair style. #thumbsup

I've had the odd person reference me being an older woman now, but honestly I'm happy to step into the role. From their vantage point, it may be 'old' but from mine, it's full adulthood with all the pluses that brings.

Just before Christmas
Heart attack.
Discharge notes stated 'elderly lady'.
Shit i'm only 65.

The cab driver who asked how long I’d been retired! When I explained I have quite some way to go before that happens, he didn’t believe me!

Visiting the Science Museum and seeing objects I have actually owned.

The local GP surgery ringing me the other day to offer me a flu jab. I was baffled and momentarily speechless. Then remembered I am now over 50 (my mind thinks I’m mid 30s).

A few years back when that song “Moves Like Jagger” was popular, my DD asking “What’s Jagger?”

Playing Articulate the other day and DD (14) not having heard of John Major or Kenny Everett.

Looking at pictures from a school reunion. I hadn't been to any of them, or seen the people involved on FB or other social media. The ones I'd kept in touch with looked as young as I imagined I did myself, but the rest were unrecognisable from their teenage personas, however many 'you have the exact same cheeky face, lol' and 'You look just the same, Liz!' there were in the comments. I realised then that the world unfamiliar with the life of young Dahlia would see the same kind of old trout I was looking at in those pictures when they looked at me.