Outside of wrinkles, what was your rude awakening to getting old?

[Anonymous]

Age 50
-Having to color my hair every 3 weeks vs every 3 months (yes, I am considering letting it go grey but this is easier said than done)
-weird fat/skin/padding on my torso--upper and lower. And flabbier upper arms.

very few to no wrinkles and no loose neck skin. But I'm battling the other stuff.

[Anonymous]

I'm 54.

I got little bits of gray hair in my mid 20s in law school, lol, so it's not that.

I think for me it's just the general lack of energy. I just don't have the energy I used to. I remember being younger and going out and dancing til 2am and then getting up in what could still be called "morning" the next day and having a normal day. I could never do something like that now.

Oh, and yeah, the glasses thing. As of this year I officially can't read without them. I now have a pair of reading glasses in every room, lol. Feels pretty old lady-ish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mine involves literal rudeness.

A little self-entitled Gen Z girl pushed past my elderly father in a line to catch up with some friends. Didn't say excuse me or anything. Just literally pushed him aside. My father started to tell her off and she got combative. So I stepped in and told her to move along. She persists to argue so I repeated just move along. Finally, I told her to hush her mouth. She seemed shocked. She looked at me and asked, "How old are you?" (I'm 53). And then very seriously declared, "It's amazing that I'm only 25 and so much more mature than you."

Gen Z really is an obnoxious lot lacking in basic manners. But I've noticed a lot of ageism from them. It's wild.

I have no idea why you decided to pick a fight with someone 30 years younger than you and more than 50 years younger than your father. Shake your head and move on.

Yeah, this is a (bad) personality thing, not an age thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine involves literal rudeness.

A little self-entitled Gen Z girl pushed past my elderly father in a line to catch up with some friends. Didn't say excuse me or anything. Just literally pushed him aside. My father started to tell her off and she got combative. So I stepped in and told her to move along. She persists to argue so I repeated just move along. Finally, I told her to hush her mouth. She seemed shocked. She looked at me and asked, "How old are you?" (I'm 53). And then very seriously declared, "It's amazing that I'm only 25 and so much more mature than you."

Gen Z really is an obnoxious lot lacking in basic manners. But I've noticed a lot of ageism from them. It's wild.

I have no idea why you decided to pick a fight with someone 30 years younger than you and more than 50 years younger than your father. Shake your head and move on.

I didn't pick the fight. She did. Do try to keep up.

See ^^. Nasty personality. Not pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know more dead people than living. Life is slowly feeling like being on a Survivor Island game show that you don’t leave alive and you can’t change the channel, only watch yourself like being in a horror movie where you know death is coming but not how or when.

My DH is 12 years older than I am at 67 and I'm starting to worry about him dying despite the fact that he is not only healthy but athletic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Catching my reflection in windows and seeing my mother. 😳

This, and my eyebrows have migrated to my chin.

My eyebrows are disappearing.

My sister was going on about how old she looked in a picture, and it was clearly the fact that she doesn't fill in her eyebrows at all. She doesn't know much about makeup.

[Anonymous]

My face has changed. The proportions are just a little distorted: face is wider, eyes more set in their sockets, nose has probably grown more than the rest of my features. I look less cute. Imho, women tend to look more mannish as they age and I'm in that less cute stage so I need to step it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know more dead people than living. Life is slowly feeling like being on a Survivor Island game show that you don’t leave alive and you can’t change the channel, only watch yourself like being in a horror movie where you know death is coming but not how or when.

My DH is 12 years older than I am at 67 and I'm starting to worry about him dying despite the fact that he is not only healthy but athletic.

Not to be crass but youre just now considering the death of a ....79 year old?

[Anonymous]

My flat ass. It disappeared. also hair that has to be colored every 2 weeks to look fresh, thickening nose, not only wrinkles on my face but ugly elephant type wrinkles when I bend my arm and when I sit on the toilet. I’m 54 but they make me look 90.

[Anonymous]

Crepey decolletage from sun damage from being a short sighted young person

Food stuck in teeth too

Thinning eyebrows, I need to watch some videos on what to do about that

Going to bed so early. 10pm is way too late

Health issues. I have so many doctors. Not really lifestyle related, just bad luck

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Catching my reflection in windows and seeing my mother. 😳

+100! It's a shocker, for sure. After that: thinning skin (hands especially); knee pain and overall stiffness after sitting.

[Anonymous]

My eyebrows have way fewer hairs but more and more of the ones I do have are scary wiry and liable to stick out in weird ways and if I tweeze a really frightening one I'm going to have a blank spot. I trim them but either way I hate my eyebrows.

Spider veins on my calves and ankles. Not a lot but definitely aging.

Walking down stairs (going up is ok).

At night it isn't just needing to turn over, it's that the hip and shoulder I am lying on are hurting. And knees will hurt--I keep an extra pillow just for grabbing during the night to put under whichever knee decides to hurt.

Stamina and how much weight I can pick up and carry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My eyes! I miss my young eyes that could read tiny print on medication labels without a magnifying glass

Same! Just got reading glasses at 47. I have always prided myself on 20/20 vision, which I still have but now I need readers.

Still only have very few gray hairs.

I hate being dependent upon reading glasses. I own one million pairs but still struggle to find them. There is nothing worse than being in a store and realizing I don't have reading glasses.

[Anonymous]

I may be mostly or fully gray by now if I chose to grow it out (I’m 45).

Eyes look more tired

A random one is that I have never had cellulite before - now I’ve started to see a little on the front of my thighs.

[Anonymous]

Friends dying is the biggest. Cancer and heart attacks in our 40s and 50s.