Older women of Reddit, what was it that made you realize you were no longer young?

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1. Turning 50 did it

2. Do you mean something other than the wrinkles and gray hair? 🙂

3. I hurt my back pulling on a pair of leggings the other week. That was a real blow to the ego 😅

4. All of it hit at once when I turned 38. Grey hairs, loss of the youthful “glow” in my face, my tummy got soft and boobs got saggy. I’m not young anymore and I’m doing my best to be ok with that.

5. I got a charlie horse in my calf while putting on support pantyhose.

6. The music I was listening to during my teenage years was being played in an elevator

7. I got called madam

8. Kids who were born after I graduated, are graduating college, getting married, and having kids of their own. My brain refuses to accept that.

9. I’m 45. I am still young. I’ll be young forever. I refuse to get old.

10. Close to 40 age stopped being just a number and became a milage. My body needs way more maintenance now than it did in my 20s and I don’t bounce back as quickly as I used to. If I get tired, I need a full night sleep to feel better, just a quick rest won’t do. If I’m underslept, I don’t function well. If I’m sick, I need a couple of days to recover fully. Second glass of wine is out of question, or I’m not doing well the next day.

11. Throwing out my back making the bed. I didn’t twist weird or anything.

    Having my hip hurt when I stood up. That started at 40.

12. I don’t think I’m old yet, but I do hope that when I get to my fifties and so on one day, the society has changed enough and women becoming saggy and baggy grey swamp witches after menopause (like nature intended) is universally accepted, no questions asked, no fecks given, and that’s a circle of life which is seen as normalcy and taken with a lot of respect and love.

13. The retirement around 30s for sports feel. I get it now being in my 30s while still being active in sports, I don’t recover the same like when I was younger. Still young enough but much more work on the body trying to be your best for competition.

14. When it took more than a day to recover from a night of drinking

15. The wrinkles on my forehead

16. Having to look up all of the lingo on urbandictionary.com

17. Friends my age and younger dying from age-related diseases.

18. For me it was one day at work, two heavily bearded biker guys came up to me, I thought they were gonna ask if we had stock, or where a particular product was kept, instead they both said “we know you, do you remember us?” I was really racking my brains, they didn’t look at all familiar and my friend group is short on the bearded biker type. I must have looked pretty confused, we’re Ben and Dan…still no recollection, you used to listen to us read…..I used to go to my kids infant school and support with reading… I remembered a rather cute pair of twins, all blond hair and cheeky grins. That made me feel pretty ancient lol. They turned out to be a lovely pair of guys, we chatted for a while it was really good to catch up with them.

19. Kids these days will never have experienced pre-9/11 travel – and reading about it in the history books. Accompanying people to the airport gate to say goodbye.

20. My child is 35. That will do it. 🤷‍♀️🤭 I’m ok with it actually. It’s a privilege denied to many.

21. I stopped getting carded.

22. When my students didn’t know what Cartoon Network was.

23. When people I work with have no memory of 9/11 but I watched it unfold on TV in highschool English class. I even remember the morning, the temperature, how beautiful outside it was that day. It’s a literal video in my head.

    But young people I worked with will say “yeah my mom said it was a crazy time”.

24. When I hit them with the “when I was your age” I zoned the fuck out for a second talking to that 20 something.. the pain ooohhh the painnnn 😂

25. When my doctors and other healthcare providers started looking like kids to me.

26. The year of my birth

27. When my “baby” got her PhD, my older daughter had her second baby, all within one month. It’s crazy, I don’t feel old!

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