you know that you are getting old when....

[renaeden]

^DirtDawg -

^Genesis - you must have the autistic trait of looking young for your age. Someone thought I was in my mid 30s, not 47.

I do have that trait... a lot of people at work thought I was in my 20s

Well from the pictures of you I've seen, you could definitely pass for being in your 20s. The 20s and 30s kind of mix together. It's in your 40s that your age starts to show itself.

[Genesis]

^DirtDawg -

^Genesis - you must have the autistic trait of looking young for your age. Someone thought I was in my mid 30s, not 47.

I do have that trait... a lot of people at work thought I was in my 20s

Well from the pictures of you I've seen, you could definitely pass for being in your 20s. The 20s and 30s kind of mix together. It's in your 40s that your age starts to show itself.

^__^

[odeon]

I have a few silver hairs now. I was at work and I told someone that I pull the silvers out and they were like, "Oooh, you know if you do that, two will grow in its place!" Just what I needed to hear.

Nothing to worry about. My hair is turning white and I still don't worry about it. I rather like it.

[odeon]

^I'm 13 years older than you, heh.

I'm 12 years older than you.

[Genesis]

When people call me Sir -_-

[DirtDawg]

^DirtDawg -

^Genesis - you must have the autistic trait of looking young for your age. Someone thought I was in my mid 30s, not 47.

One of my new "gun friends" at the range thought I was mid fifties a couple of weeks ago.
Nope, sixty eight, birthday next month. I'll be the "nice" age. He's fifty nine, thought I was younger.

Don't know exactly why, but hearing sixty nine, the youths all seem to say, "Nice!"

Honestly, I think I look older than first dirt.

[Genesis]

You will be a GIMP and always a GIMP (because of your injury, and your yoyoing weight problem)

[odeon]

I feel old when reading this thread.

[Genesis]

I feel old when reading this thread.

 

[conlang returns]

when most of your memories of others is about people who are gone?  If so I am old before my time.  Thirty seven isn't really that old, is it?

[odeon]

Nope, it's not.

My mum will be 92 next week. She was telling me about all of her friends dying at regular intervals these days. Not complaining, just stating it very matter-of-factly. I don't think she is ready to go anytime soon, but she's got a point.

My nan was 4 days shy of 101 when she died. The world's oldest aspie, I used to label her. She was utterly clear in the head right to the end, with very few health issue beyond the advancing age, but she always complained about everyone dying or losing their facilities around her. It was no fun but she had her books. Until she started losing her eyesight in earnest and couldn't read anymore. Thinking she found some relief in the contraband we all provided her with, wine, chocolate, etc, but no longer being able to read did it for her.

We all need something to live for.

[renaeden]

My mum will be 78 mid December. She absolutely loves to read and enjoys telling me what her current book is about. Her aunt and mum died from dementia and she's always scared of going the same way. But I see and hear no sign of it in her. She's really sharp. She was the one who drove me to and from the hospital when I had surgery.

[Genesis]

The things that worried me as child shouldn't worry me as an adult.

[odeon]

Some of those things still scare me as an adult. ^

Weirdly, you get old when you no longer worry about it.

[Genesis]

You're the one complaining about the young people.