I’m still in my 20s, but as of a few years ago I started forgetting what’s my exact age. I always have to stop and recalculate it each time someone asks me. I get asked fairly infrequently, but when I do it’s a bit weird/embarrassing that I have to say “wait, let me calculate”. (I know when I was born, of course.)
It seems as if there’s no good reason I’d remember it, since it changes all the time and it is rarely mentioned in practice. But others, including people much older than myself, know their own age immediately.
I’m also terrible at remembering people’s names, I don’t know if that could be related?
I did and I don’t even know how long I was wrong or when I lost track. I thought I was 27. I signed up for some forum and put in my birthday on my profile and it automatically put my age on my bio. I was like ‘lol stupid website that’s wrong’ then I did the math and realized that I was the stupid website that was wrong.
This is normal. As a kid, you’re asked about your age much more often, and you’re often thinking about it as you look forward to hitting milestones - reaching a certain grade, your next birthday, legal age for driving, voting, drinking, and so on. Once you’re in your mid to late 20s it starts to matter a lot less, and people tend to have to do math, or if you’re like me, just ask your spouse.
My birthday never changes, but my age changes every year. I forget it for like 9 months of the year.
After about 26 it doesn’t matter much any more.
When you’re 53, yeah pretty much normal.
The only reason I remember that I’m 64 is that I will be 65 on my next birthday. That’s kind of a milestone for a number of reasons and it’s easy to remember. The same was true when I was about to turn 50. Other than that, anything after 30 is kind of blurry
Normal.
I spend th3 first half of being 35, being 36.
I was never 35. Thought I was 36 until my 36th birthday when I realized I had been wrong for the previous year.
Now I’m curious, what age were you before you thought you turned 36?
At one point or the other you have to start actively forgetting it - which, as it turns out, I’m quite good at. Unfortunately, a whole bunch of people show up once a year to undo all my effort.
Growing old sucks.
I occasionally forget mine, too, but I was fortunate in that I was born in 1970, so it’s really easy to calculate it on the fly.
As an older guy: Yes. I often have to calculate my age. Over time it becomes an arbitrary number.
