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!

It probably started when I first gave birth. I was described as a 'geriatric mother' and this was confirmed in my notes. I was a healthy weight, naturally youthful - or so I thought - and in my 30s!!! So I blame my DCs for the sudden decline into the ageing process - and now in more ways than one.

When i realised my mam didnt die old.She was only 57.

And now im 47 its really brought it all home.

When I realised (at 52) that I could no longer sit carelessly on the floor/grass in the fashion of bendy youth. I met DD (21) and her friend in the local park for lunch. They sat on the grass easily. I had to sort of carefully fall over (have a fall?) to get down there. Then I couldn't get up. At one point I was on all fours bleating "help me!" and DD and friend had to haul me upright like a defective deckchair.

When I showed the young guy at the supply teaching agency my original qualification.
He asked if he could take a photo of it as it was issued the year he was born. 1979. Ouch!

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

I'm so anti-violence I'm off the scale, but sincerely hope you kicked them in the tripes ... and yes, I do realise that even using the phrase shows my age

@skinthappy you know you're old when you have 'a bit of a fall' so you're all right for a while!

I've just remembered another one. I was chatting to a young woman in the park who was telling me that she'd got a job in a new local pub. She said to me "and you'd love it - it's great food, and if you just show them your bus pass you'll get a pensioner discount". Ouch, I was 51 at the time!

When I went through the menopause at 46. Body aches all the time. I have to keep taking my glasses on and off depending what I’m doing, I know I need varifocals! It all happened at once!

I can still party all night though and love a girls holiday so not all is lost! I’m 50 next year, seems impossible!

I'm 46 with a 14 year old and 3 year old I look old and feel I'm ready for the scrap yard! I'm surprised I've not been asked if I'm the 3 year old gran yet!

I still can't be lifer that people born in this century can be in the workplace.

I also had a minor incident at work when someone was going on about that bloody wailer Florence and the Machine's song You Got the Love. I pointed out it was a cover of a Candi Staton song and they wouldn't believe that she existed until they Googled it.

Google trumps everything else now.

When a guy I worked with asked if I had a younger sister!

We got on really well, liked and laughed at the same things but I was too old at 36 for him at 25.

The need to use the manual zoom function (bring item forward and back until the damn thing comes into focus) because eyes are shit now... Thats what told me Im old!

When I realised that the a level history syllabus ended after I was born.

When I realised some years ago I had no idea what was going on in the music charts and who the hell are these people playing Wembley?!

I'm with draughtycatflap haha 😂

When I got bifocals last year, & around the same time, looked in the mirror one day and I realised my face has started to sag slightly, I no longer have the firm jawline of youth. No wrinkles though... yet. Am only 40.

I've always worked in schools. I've gone from being accidentally being called 'Mum' to being called 'Grandma' by pupils in the last couple of years.
This year I'm working with a teacher whose Mum is younger than me.

Staring at 52 in a few days and I so identify with all of this....and it started in my early 40s when after my marriage fell apart and I had to properly get back into the world of work after 14 years of complex caring circumstances.....the 12 year old high flying Male at the job agency went through my CV which although light on current qualifications was jam packed with management experience, voluntary work and transferrable skills. He then told me to take out anything that made me sound as though I had ideas above my station basically because all I was good for were minimum wage jobs and I would appear too threatening and a retention risk. Suddenly faced with the reality I had missed any sort of career boat and the world was going to refuse me any opportunity to work my way up was awful....

On a more light hearted note, my "surrogate" son (it's complicated) is in a relationship with a woman older than him with five children, the eldest of whom is having a baby. Technically this makes me a step great grandmother. Whelp.

We dont get old we are just antique children.

I think I was about 50 when I decided that I preferred seating at gigs even though it usually meant being nearer the back

I haven't made that realisation yet. I turned 50 last year.

Maybe I am in denial.

I guess it's odd that I have peers (in my running club and fitness classes) that I regard as mates but maybe they regard me as being like their parents. I don't care though, we all get along fine.

My eyes are getting noticeably worse, but I just think that's ageing rather than being old if that makes sense.

We were talking about music and said I loved Nirvana since I first heard them on John Peel before they were big.
My son's girlfriend looked at me blank. So I said about Kurt Cobain She said that her dad would probably like them. I realised that Kurt Cobain had been dead for a few years before she was born and I was talking as if they were the next big thing!

This year during lockdown. Probably due to inactivity making me less supple plus the realisation that i need to use hearing aids.
I blame all those heavy metal concerts in my yoof 😉

Apart from my eyes probably mid 40's - when they go, they go quickly!
Walking to the gym at 50 or so wearing flattering black gym gear some guys in a van tooted at me from behind. Then they drew up along side me at the traffic lights and realised the full horror of the front of me, the look on their faces was priceless. Longest red light ever for them!

@londonschool ,

I get that too.