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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?

QualifiedKitten ,

I think I was about 23 when I started to have to stop and calculate my age whenever it came up.

TruthAintEasy ,
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Its normal, just dont forget your spouse birthday

NeoNachtwaechter ,

I knew my exact age at all times between 4 and 18. Or maybe even 19. Afterwards I always needed to calculate. And it became less and less important.

AgentGrimstone ,

I started losing track in my late 20s, sometimes I would think I was +/-1 my real age. I just checked my age now and I’m one year younger than I thought I was. Woohoo!

Kolanaki ,
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When nobody, not even yourself, make a big deal about your birthday yeah. Happens to me all the time. I just turned 39, 2 weeks ago and before that I wasn’t sure if I was going to be 39 or 40 without doing some math.

indepndnt ,

A few months ago I was doing dishes and for some reason thought about my age and I literally couldn’t remember if I’d hit 50 yet. Had to do the math to remember I’m 45 and that’s quite a ways off. That’s an outlier for sure, but yeah I forget.

It just doesn’t come up often. There are fewer ands fewer markers. Before your 20s you’ve got hitting double digits, becoming a teenager, sweet 16, becoming an “adult”, then not being a teenager any more. In your 20s you’ve got becoming an adult again (and maybe being able to drink if 21 is your drinking age), and then maybe saving money on insurance at 25 if that even matters to you. Then nothing. You might demarcate 30, but nothing really changes. In many senses now it’s “just a number” and the individual increments fail to matter. There’s no differential reinforcement to remembering where you are on the number line.

Poggervania ,
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I would say I started having to think about my age after I was 25 or so, so I would say that’s normal. The only ones I don’t think about are the decade ones since those are easy enough to calculate lol

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…

56_ ,
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Started for me at 21. Also terrible with names, but I’ve never thought of that being related.

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.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I’ve been getting it wrong since I was around 23. It’s often a case of “hang on, am I 23 or 24?” where I’m off by one year. It was easier during university because I knew of my peers’ ages and that made my age mean something relative to them. Now, age doesn’t come up regularly at all, so I’m more likely to forget and have to work it out as you describe

Jaytreeman ,

Every year after 40, I've been surprised at some point that I'm not 40 anymore

Not unusual at all.

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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.

    kirbowo808 ,
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    I forget my own age sometimes and I’ve only just started my own life journey. I think it’s completely normal tbh so I wouldn’t worry too much about it!

    A_Random_Idiot ,

    I always have to do the math to figure out my age.

    Mostly because I dont celebrate birthdays or make any fuss about growing ever more one day closer to death.

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