Is identifying as an age really a thing now?

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My friend works as a lecturer in a collage. There have been quite a few different identities, but at least two have identified as different age groups - a woman in her 40 identified as a 2 year old and another has 'several' identities, man and woman, ages 2-30.

I'd like to say I'm making it up, but I'm not. And I'm really not sure if it's supposed to be ironic or deadly serious. It must be ironic, right?

So what does being a two year old involve? Nappies? Nap time? Crawling across the floor pretending to be a worm? Squabbling with the student next to you because she has the same pencil as you?

I couldn’t be bothered with that nonsense...

@EverybodyIsInteresting

I identify as a 67 year old.

Can I get my pension now please?

Now that is a good idea.

When I was 16 I identified as 18 on Friday nights 😂

My husband identifies as upper class and keeps wandering around National Trust properties like he owns the place, all dressed in tweed and insisting everyone bow and address him by his chosen honorific of Baron/My Lord.

It’s a bit embarrassing tbh but I must accept that he is who he identifies as.

I really don't get the '2 year old' thing. It seems to be more boundaries or self-created humiliation. Without knowing the person though, I'm guessing it's one of those 'vanity' identities that actually makes no difference at all - you just say you are so you are.

Our psychology lecturer would show us old Hollywood films depicting DID and rip them the shreds. I wonder what she would make of all this (actually she was very down to earth ‘take no shit’ so I suspect she would laugh them out of the room, in a kind way).

I'm 72.

I'm going to identify as a 35 year old, oh and I want to be a god/goddess (is one allowed to say goddess now?).

Actually I might not bother identifying as just any old god but might take it further and identify as GOD.

I'll identify as omnipotent and put an end to all this stupid identifying bollocks once and for all.

I identify as a cynic.

Which should allow me to question this pish every time it rears its deluded little head.

When I was a kid ‘you can be who you want to be!’ was more of a motivational ‘you could grow up to be a doctor, an architect, an astronaut!’ Not ‘you can defy the laws of biology and common sense and be a 6”3 pink hippo with wings!’

Well if you can identify yourself into womanhood, I don't see why you can't identify yourself into childhood.

Have an inner sense of being a child actually makes more sense to me than having an inner sense of being the opposite sex. We have all been children at some point so at least they have some basis on which they are predicating their 2 year old identity.

@MarleneDietrichsSmile

I hope it is serious

It will make people rethink the trans issue

Absolutely this.

@pigsDOfly

I'm 72.

I'm going to identify as a 35 year old, oh and I want to be a god/goddess (is one allowed to say goddess now?).

Actually I might not bother identifying as just any old god but might take it further and identify as GOD.

I'll identify as omnipotent and put an end to all this stupid identifying bollocks once and for all.

What is DID?

So what the hell is the woman identifying as a 2 year old doing in college?

She's only just starting to speak reasonably clearly, and that with a very limited vocabulary and, unless she's lying, she certainly can't read and write.

Although, perhaps she's identifying as a 2 year old with the sort of parents who claim their 2 year old child is fluent in 5 languages.

It does actually, because it's part of the same bullshit self ID agenda. You can no more decide you must be treated as 2 year old than you can be only seen as your opposite sex. You can decide that's how you feel, you do not get to force me to accept that's reality

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This can only be a good thing, I can identify as slim and not only will my GP have to take me seriously but people will stop treating me like shit in general.
Given how quickly the modern world has adapted to accept non binary/2 spirit/fluid etc as identities then it cant be too long before all of us who identify out of our biological realities are accepted too.

@AGirlCalledJohnny

Sorry I don't understand your question.

One college lecturer has had multiple people identifying as different ages, animals and gods?

Not only that but the lecturer is unprofessional enough to be discussing identities of their students with you, who then decides to broadcast it on the internet for everyone to see?

Sure thing.

@DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult

One college lecturer has had multiple people identifying as different ages, animals and gods?

Not only that but the lecturer is unprofessional enough to be discussing identities of their students with you, who then decides to broadcast it on the internet for everyone to see?

Sure thing.

I've seen you before. I know you're a skeptic.

But ultimately it doesn't matter what you believe - this is reality. Sorry to break that to you.

Do feel free to report if you doubt it though.

Emile Ratelband, 69, told he cannot legally change his age

He was dutch though so not sure what would happen in UK.

I think mother who gave brith to child went to high court to get themselves put down a father on birth certificate but wasn't allowed www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/freddy-mcconnell-trans-man-father-mother-birth-certificate-baby-a9489751.html.

I can image it could cause safeguarding problems if there were under 18 or 16 year olds - I think there were concerns in press a while back about possibly older asylum seekers being allowed in secondary schools by saying they were younger :news.sky.com/story/asylum-seeker-who-claimed-to-be-15-and-joined-school-is-an-adult-11561810 - but I suppose the institution would be expected to manage the situation - but what is actaully meant by ID as a 2 year old is beyound me really.

The one with multiple ages could legitimately have multiple personalities (I think it’s called dissociative identity disorder).

The others are attention seeking.

Identifying as a 2 year old is going to make it tricky ordering an alcoholic beverage in the student bar I should imagine.

Unless they identify as age fluid as well.

It's all ludicrous. And then think of those people who have been absolutely and utterly slammed for identifying as another race... that's not on. But, sure, sex and age why not?

Didn’t a man in... Belgium (?) try to get his age ‘adjusted’ on a dating app because he didn’t identify as his age (but much younger). I’m sure it went to court - and he lost (because it’s bonkers).

How is this actually manifesting, OP? As in, are people putting in their email sign-off 'please treat me as a 3-year-old' or whatever? Or is it more like those quizzes where you answer multiple-choice questions and it tells you if you're Marlene Dietrich or Bettie Page?

I'm all for saying that age doesn't 'define' one. And I'd say I 'internally identify' as a 26 year old, which is actually younger than my youngest child lol. But I don't go round expecting others to unilaterally accept my definition or accommodate my 'feelings'.

If I identify as a 2 year old, will I then be able to get into Disneyland or other theme parks and attractions for free? In that case, I'm 2.

But just what does identifying as a certain age do for one? How do they expect others to 'accommodate' that? If I identify as 2 then I must be allowed a 2 hour afternoon nap at work? If I identify as 70 then must I be given a 'senior discount'?

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