Presbyopia
The amount of candles on you’re birthday cake are so numerous that the fire department comes out.
I have learned the difference between “your” and “you’re”.
I guess I’m still growing as a person
For me, it’s correcting people that.
You can’t stand grindy videogames. You see young adults as children, and their behavior becomes irritating.
I find it takes much, much longer to heal from injury. That’s the main downside I’ve experienced. When I say longer - when about 8 yo I broke my arm, it took 5-6 weeks to heal, maybe 10 to really heal, stop swelling ever and feel exactly like the other. When about 45 I broke my finger and it took 2 years to fully heal and feel like the rest of them.
But it also takes longer to get mad, I’m less irritable, more perspective I guess. Easier to feel happy/satisfied, too, it’s closer to the surface now.
Making interjections when standing up, from a chair, from bed, getting out from your car seat, etc …
Preposterous!
Back pain
Your perception and outlook on time changes a lot.
Everything seems to go by faster. Waiting for something doesn’t seem that bad when it’s in terms of days instead of hours, weeks instead of days, months instead of weeks, years instead of months.
When making long term plans, “how long you think you’ll live” becomes more and more of a factor.
Your first gray pube.
What age?
For me sometime soon after 40.
My what?
TURN UP YOUR HEARING AIDS OLD TIMER
Your getting older. They are asking the abstract noun representing your aging what some signs are. I don’t think your getting older is going to be able to answer, though, and I doubt it has much knowledge of signs.
You start correcting people when they say “your” instead of “you’re” :-)
Quite the opposite.
The older you get the less clever it feels to point out the common mistakes of others
Agreed. Matter of fact, I usually direct the offending party to one of two, if not both, sites.
https://www.sciencealert.com/people-who-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-jerks-scientists-find
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/76120
Always a good time.
It’s replaced with a desire to help people be better.
Yep. Even if you don’t have kids, that parental and grandparental instinct still starts to build and you can’t stop yourself
I agree actually, I was only kidding because of the subject of the post.
For me it clicked when pretty girls started tallking and being nice to me
It’s probably because you stopped caring so much and acting awkwardly around them
It is! Hence the realization that I got older. Sorry, re-reading my comment above I wasn’t clear
“You’ve exited the dating pool but aren’t in old adult territory yet”, someone I’ve heard describe it once.
School dreams are very rare now, and when I have them the “cast” is all people from various adult jobs. I never knew my actual school mates as adults, so I guess my brain just can’t fill it in. If I was actually transported back to high school and saw them again it would probably feel like being surrounded by babies, so makes sense that “central casting” sends in adult stand-ins.
I’m always an adult too. What’s weird is I remember being a child. I remember my body being clumsy and awkward, I remember being confused by adult concepts, I remember being small. It never comes out in childhood dreams, I’m always my present age.
You mix up your and you’re.
My tolerance for incorrect use of your / you’re gets lower.
It’s funny, because my tolerance of people correcting other people’s grammar or spelling gets lower.
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/76120
https://www.sciencealert.com/people-who-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-jerks-scientists-find
As does mine. But mixing it up gets higher 😉
I don’t heal as fast anymore. Cuts and scrapes turn into scars easier.
This. Mid thirties here and I scraped my wrist on a moving box about a month ago. Didn’t even bleed. It turned into a dark scar that looks like I tried to cut myself.
Sunburn too, I tan all splotchy now and you can feel the wrinkles forming around the burn in real time.
And fitness is totally screwed. I hurt the arch of my foot just walking one day and it’s been two years of PT with practically zero progress. Anytime I take a funny step it resets back to zero.
Plus i basically don’t build muscle anymore no matter how hard i try. I can finally afford a trainer and it’s going to take 3 years to get the amount of progress a 20 year old could get in a single summer. I finally get why juicing and T are so popular among wealthy men in my age group.
If you are still under thirty start taking collagen and moisturizing daily. Do stretches every day even if you do no other fitness. It really really matters and you won’t ever know it’s paying off until all your friends are suddenly like me and you aren’t.
