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?
My birthday never changes, but my age changes every year. I forget it for like 9 months of the year.
I have an august birthday and I keep forgetting sometimes until like January or something of next year then I just go have another and the cycle repeats
I did and I don’t even know how long I was wrong or when I lost track. I thought I was 27. I signed up for some forum and put in my birthday on my profile and it automatically put my age on my bio. I was like ‘lol stupid website that’s wrong’ then I did the math and realized that I was the stupid website that was wrong.
This is normal. As a kid, you’re asked about your age much more often, and you’re often thinking about it as you look forward to hitting milestones - reaching a certain grade, your next birthday, legal age for driving, voting, drinking, and so on. Once you’re in your mid to late 20s it starts to matter a lot less, and people tend to have to do math, or if you’re like me, just ask your spouse.
After about 26 it doesn’t matter much any more.
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Normal once you enter adulthood. In your childhood and teen years there are lots of things that change about your life on your birthday (drinking age, age of majority, being allowed to drive a car, etc), no longer a thing in adulthood unless you want to run for president or something like that.
The especially incompetent (like me) managed in their teens too…
Normal.
I spend th3 first half of being 35, being 36.
I was never 35. Thought I was 36 until my 36th birthday when I realized I had been wrong for the previous year.
Now I’m curious, what age were you before you thought you turned 36?
I thought I turned 36 on my 35th birthday, so i imagine towards the end of being 34 I must have forgotten my age
As someone with adhd it’s completely normal for me. When you’re a kid you have good reason to keep track of your age because at that time of your life you change dramatically between ages as you develop as a person, plus it’s important when asserting your identity to other as that too develops. When we’re older it’s just a number that only comes up once a year and is not that much different from the previous number, and so it’s easier to lose track of especially for people who have an affected working memory and time blindness like me. Idk if you have adhd or how often people without adhd experience this sort of thing but I can speak for my own experience. I forget how old I am, and other people’s names, all the damn time lol.
I have ADHD too. Most of the time I recalculate my age based on my BF’s that I usually have an easier time remembering.
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
I thought I was 43 for probably close to a year, and even told everyone that asked I was until I had to get my own health insurance and found out I was actually 44.
If the question is “am I the only one who …”. The answer is always no.
You’re right, but they did ask if it’s normal.
Something that only happens to 1 in a million people is not normal, but one of those people asking would not be the only one.
I was 27 for three years
Yes,I have had to do math. It doesn’t really matter.
You’re not alone, I started not really remembering around that time too… Birthdays just weren’t a big deal anymore and there was so little call to bring it up once I was old enough to legally buy alcohol.
Eventually, you get to the point where you’d like to forget, and you may ask yourself, how did I get here?
Seems a bit early, but yeah, completely normal. As an adult, you no longer put as much stock in birthdays and neither does anyone else. It sucks sometimes, but it’s not important to life, so whatever.
On the other hand, I was watching a documentary the other day and it hit me that I just passed the average life expectancy of that society, so …. Shit
Think of it this way - you beat that society! In a “that society vs you” contest, you’re in charge, you’re the boss, the head man, the top dog, the big cheese, the head honcho, the number one…
I forgot and somehow managed to convince myself I was a year older + told people that age all least year until my SO made me do the math LOL. tbh unless you’re talking to the doctor or your date I don’t think it really matters after a certain point.
