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Is it normal to forget your own age?

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?

masquenox ,

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.

verysoft ,

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    iAmTheTot ,
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    How old are you?

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    iAmTheTot ,
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    You may actually be in the minority. I think it's plenty normal for people that age to have to think a moment about their age.

    sajran ,

    I’m exactly the same! Nice to know I’m not the only one.

    In all seriousness, once you’re of age the exact number rarely matters and isn’t often used so I’m more surprised people actually remember it.

    Mr_Dr_Oink ,

    Normal.

    I spend th3 first half of being 35, being 36.

    Repelle ,

    I was never 35. Thought I was 36 until my 36th birthday when I realized I had been wrong for the previous year.

    TheChargedCreeper864 ,

    Now I’m curious, what age were you before you thought you turned 36?

    Repelle ,

    I thought I turned 36 on my 35th birthday, so i imagine towards the end of being 34 I must have forgotten my age

    MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

    Totally normal. 21 was your last milestone, 22 was your first year of “I’m older than 21.” Everything after that will be fuzzy except for the decade milestones and maybe the half decade ones.

    antonim OP ,

    21 was your last milestone,

    I’m not American, so not even that, actually. I guess 20 was sort of a milestone, but only symbolically, entering my third decade of life…

    520 ,

    Soon after a birthday I sometimes forget it has passed and say my old age

    Bipta ,

    It's like writing the wrong date when a new year has begun.

    NemoWuMing ,

    Lifehack: when someone asks your age, just reply “I was born in 2001”

    Let them calculate

    amzd ,

    This is great if ur born januari maybe but if someone told me “oh so you’re 30” when I say 1994, I wil jump ||I have been advised not to finish this||

    ctkatz ,

    yes because math. next week it won’t be a problem because it will be a milestone multiple of 10 age.

    Timecircleline ,

    Happy almost x-tieth birthday!

    Zacryon ,

    If you are using a piece of knowledge rarely, it is less likely to remember it.

    It doesn’t matter whether it’s some word from a foreign language you are trying to learn, a math formula or names and birthdays, even your own, or whatever.

    I’m also terrible with names. But then again, I rarely use them. I even tend to forget my own birthday and would miss it if there weren’t people around me reminding me of it.

    If other people know their age and birthday immediatly, that’s probably because they are regularly thinking about it. For names it is therefore helpful to use the name of persons you just got acquainted with very often in conversations with them.

    RufusFirefly ,
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    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

    nutsack ,

    i forget all kinds of things i don’t give a shit about

    phoenixz ,

    Don’t ask me my age. I can give youy birthdate, I can tell you in intricate detail how the bug bang -by out current knowledge- happened, I can speak 3 languages fluently, but don’t ever ask me my age!

    Donebrach ,
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    For me it was after 30 (the pandemic didn’t help). It also doesn’t help being stuck in a perpetual rut of vaguely late 20s lifestyle due to how fucked the housing market is and how stagnant wages are.

    tooclose104 ,
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    I was 33 for almost 2 years. Covid did a number on my interpretation of time…

    billwashere ,

    When you’re 53, yeah pretty much normal.

    stoly ,

    Yes,I have had to do math. It doesn’t really matter.

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