Very, very old.

A vast swatch of the population don’t think 45 is old. They are the 45+ set.

I think it's old for having a baby, old for trying to get on the women's US Olympics gymnastics team, but not too old to go back to school, run a marathon, switch careers, etc.

Age is just a number. I'm 40, look young, feel young, act young, I don't hurt, I have energy. But I know people the same age who are none of those things and it's like we're at least a decade apart. It shows how self-care, attitude, discipline, privilege play a big role in aging.

Compared to what?

Anonymous wrote:Old to me is 80 and 45 is just kind of old.

Even tho 45 is just over half of 80?

It’s not young.

-45 year old

That’s a definite yes

Old to me is 80 and 45 is just kind of old.

I’m 45 with a kid in kindergarten so it does not feel old but maybe?

55+ her senior discounts and retirement eligible for some pensions.

45 is definitely knocking on the door of that cutoff, so definitely old. Not elderly. But old.

To anyone much younger, it's positively ancient, OP.
I'm 42, so 45 doesn't seem so old now, but it sure did before

I think with the pandemic, we lost more than a year of our lives and it seems as if suddenly we're on the other side of a divide. And now we're older as well. Not fair, but I guess better than the alternative.

I am fifty-three & looking back I think it is kind of old.

But when I was a kid - it probably was more “elderly.”
Lol. 👵🏼 👴🏼

Nope

Per posters on a health and medicine thread - 45 is old. I did not realize it was considered such (am nyc where maybe age perception skewed?)
Curious if this is generally considered such