To think 30 is now middle aged no longer young

[Bam888]

Personally I do

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No.

Personally, I think 25 is pushing it.

Well if life expectancy is 80, then 40 would be the middle. So for a range to be considered “middle aged” you could argue 35-45, or 30-50 I guess.

I do think it’s silly when people try to say that middle age doesn’t start until you’re in your 50s.

Ha ha ha. No

Nah it’s grown up, not ‘young’ but not middle aged (40-60)

Toddlers are the new middle-aged.

What did I ever do to you?????

Erm ok then

And this matters why?

You're wrong. Someone who has just exited their 20s is not middle aged.

You’re shooting too high op, I think 21. 3o is elderly.

Is this a GCSE assignment for you?

Middle aged is from approx 40 until retirement (assuming you don’t work beyond state retirement) the term is pretty pointless though and does vary by individual. I’m 51 so definitely come is this category, definitely not old, very much still working but have time to myself as dc are adults

I'm 'middle aged' and nearly 60! 🙈😂😂, I refuse to call it old..😂

Childhood
Adolescence
Youth
Middle Aged
Older
Geriatric

Stop the world and please led me get off

Half way though life expectancy is middle aged. Pretty simple. Old after that. Then elderly.

But the old people don’t like to hear that. 🤫

In terms of human developmental stages 30s are still early adulthood. Followed by middle adulthood from 40 until late adulthood from 65.

When the average life span for a British woman is 82 30 is certainly 11 years ahead of middle aged.

Oh goody let's have yet another goady shitty pointless one bitchplop wonder op
we haven't had one for at least five minutes

How old are you @Bam888

They say life begins at 40!

It’s very odd:I’m sure the usage of ‘elderly’ has changed in my lifetime from ‘getting on a bit but not actually old old’ to ‘well into coffin-dodging territory’.

So 41 then
are you middle aged for just one day ?

Yes but middle aged has always been a range, not a single age. And it makes sense to me for that range to have the average actual middle of life age (41, as you say) in the middle of it. Rather than as a starting point.

I don’t know why people get so defensive about it tbh.

ETA - having said that, I think there’s a reasonable argument to be made for just including adulthood. So adulthood 18-82, middle of that is 50. Therefore middle aged is 40-60

Well you can have a couple of years to be middle ish. Since your death year isn’t a dead set time. 50 old.