What was your "oh snap, I'm old now" moment?

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Anonymous wrote:Both my grandmothers lived to around 100 and I had always imagined my mom and I would live long lives as well. When my mom passed away suddenly at 68 I could not wrap my mind around the fact that I was more than halfway through my life if I live the same number of years she did. I felt like my life had just gotten settled and started in my 30s. I was still in the babies and early-ish career phase and all of a sudden I was faced with the reality that this could already be the downhill. Of course anyone could go at any time, but it really hit me hard that I'm not young.

<3 I am sorry

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When I became a widow.

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Anonymous wrote:I threw out my back picking up a sock.

I realized that I’m old enough to be the mother of my coworkers.

Its always little things like this! Its never I threw out my back skydiving... no, I bent down to tie my shoes.

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I, apparently, injured myself sleeping!
Shoulder injury that took a year to heal. Since I don't really know what I did to have it happen, I don't know how to not have it happen again.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel asleep in a weird position while watching a movie about four weeks ago and one of my arms has been slightly numb and tingly ever since.

I have the same problem with my left arm.

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Anonymous wrote:My neck. Ugh.

The jowels- eek

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Anonymous wrote:arthritis

This.

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Anonymous wrote:Dimly lit restaurants, the expensive ones, sure have menus with teeny tiny print.

And the music is way too loud! How are you supposed to have a conversation with the people you’re dining with?

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Osteoporosis & post-menopausal at 48.

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Anonymous wrote:I just got back from the beach. Same beach house and room we always stay in. But this time I couldn’t sleep because the mattress was as hard as a rock. And now my hips and lower back hurt and I can barely move.

I’m 39. Oww my back.

I’m lying on an air mattress in the living room of our Airbnb because the bed is way too soft for me to sleep in.

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Anonymous wrote:OP that is a peri-menopause and menopause symptom. Try HRT.

I'm a man. Hopefully it's not peri-menopause.

Lol

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Anonymous wrote:We hosted an au pair a few years back and after the interview I really expected us to be friendly/sisterly. After she arrived she would refer to me in "mom" terms often and clearly saw me as a mother figure. I was only 10 years older than her (she was 25, me 35) but it was shocking to realize I wasn't anything like young anymore. I was an unrelatable old mom.

Aw, you’re just a young whipper snapper to me! 😁

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My morning routine is now coffee+advil+estrogen.

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Anonymous wrote:They happen all the time!

Most recently asking myself why they remade Presumed Innocent so soon after the original, then reading: “Presumed Innocent is a 1990 American legal thriller film based on the 1987 novel…”

really old is thinking, yeah? that wasn't that long ago. and then doing the math

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My moment is when I noticed that I appeared to be growing a tiny mustache.

Soon after my doctor put me on a statin.

Then my shoulder stopped working.