[Closed] How old do you think of yourself as?

I'm still about 12 in my head.

I expect I always will be...

I'm 50 in June.

About 20 years younger than I am. Photos come as a shock.

I've got 22 years experience of being 18.

16 going on 17.

Depends if you're asking me as I crawl out of bed making crunching, popping and cracking noises or later in the day after meds, stretches, etc...
Either way I've got more than many but not as much as some experience of being 18 😆

45 going on 13 8)

I'm 60 soon and for my birthday I'm organising a bike race with some cycling pals on a local track to celebrate and to set the tone for the rest of my life. Most people think I'm about 50 and I feel about 40. My Mum is 86 and as fit as a butcher's dog; she leads a Ramblers' group every week and goes to the gym to lift weights, as well as singing in three choirs and doing hours at a local museum as a guide, so maybe it's in the genes.

I've been in my mid forties for the last 28 years.

Edit: by which I mean that i've always felt older in my head than i've actually been. Based on the other comments, I'm unusual in this regard.

I'm 44 now and only in the last few years have i felt that my body has finally caught up with my mind, age wise.

Have the sense of humour of a 6 year old though.

I am 50 soon.

I think I look my age and a couple of years.

However I am regular told I look a goood 8 to 12 years younger.

Mentally I have been told I am a perpetually 14 year old.

Hmmmm.. good question.

In my mind I'm 10, maybe 15 years younger than I really am.
Being the same rip old age as Call Me Dave I often wonder just how his skin looks sooooo blooming lovely and ripe, it's like I want to rip it off him and replace my craggy old fizzog with his. Of course, some would say "shave you scruffy git" and others say "nope you look distinguished" but to me, these days, I just look old.

And I don't like it.

I always get a shock when photos are shown of me or I do some random selfie whilst on the bike.. Then I immediately delete them, obvz 😳

Just turned 51 and the mirror reminds me of this every time. In my head I'm about 23

Mentally about 17, physically in my mid to late 60s thanks to osteoarthritis, but a new hip should get me back to my actual early 50s self soon enough.

38 and probably 19 in my head

Actual 47
Feel like 27

Good question, and one I was asking myself last night. Mentally about 18 I reckon but with a 41 year old body.

Early twenties, except all the times I ache & creak, and I always want to be in bed by 9pm.

(41).

I always feel at least 20 years younger than I am. Especially when I'm working, where I'm constantly amazed that people take me seriously, and I live in constant fear that I'm about to be exposed for (badly) impersonating a proper grown up, and pretending to know what I'm on about.

I was 46 last week, but even more worryingly, looking in the mirror, I appear to be pregnant 😳

Told you not to accept that drink off mrsfry Binners.....

I was 46 last week, but even more worryingly, looking in the mirror, I appear to be pregnant

If it's a boy, call him Gregg.

38 but in my head I'm still 23

Lately about 80.

As I always like to say, I'm 52 with the body of a 25 year old.
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in the boot of my car.

I don't really think of my age any more, sometimes I forget if I am 41 or 42 but I don't feel any particular age at all. My knees hurt more some days than others..

about 1/2 my chronological age, until I have to do something that involves close work. My arms are getting shorter I'd swear, and print is smaller than it used to be. Oh and people mumble all the time

c24 but going on 60 in reality. I still enjoy the stuff I did in my 20s only now can indulge in it a bit/lot more. Early retirement is key to doing loads of what you like while you can and this self-perpetuates. My 89 yr old mother has always said she feels 19.
Why 'grow up'?

29, realized that I'm closer to my boss' age than the person I'm working with, which is even more depressing when I don't think of the person I work with as 'young'.

In my head I'm 22 and just out of uni.

Twenty and a lot years younger than my skinny jeans says i am. Just need more butter and a shoehorn....and maybe a tractor...and someting for the pain

The child support for Binners is going to hurt...

Hmmm, a good question. I'm 41 but feel (mentally) about 25 or so. Physically, I feel about 60.

I can't believe I'm 61 & 62 this year - but gave up looking in mirrors a long time ago.

I play squash - vigorously - 3-4 times a week with those 20+ years younger & go MTB-ing about twice a week too. I don't feel much older than 40 and am told I look younger than my age - which Is good.

My dad died at 53yrs when I was in my 20s and I thought he was old then.....

50 a few weeks ago, probably feel 10 yrs less most of the time. Sore knees and more aches every year. Lots of riding and swimming - I work on the use it or lose it principle.

However after a great couple of hrs of techy frosty singletrack last night I am not really looking forward to my booked velodrome session at 9 tonight... 🙂

I'm 47 this year and I think that I'm... erm... 47 this year.

I know i would hate my 20 something self if i met him now, i'm rather comfortable being 30 something.

It helps that I work above one of the Kaplan accountancy training academies, I'd rather take the 7 flights of stairs up to the office than be stuck in a lift crammed with young people.

60 next year 😡 😯 but with the mindset of a 16 year old with 40 years' experience and an infantile sense of humour 😛

55 and feeling good - life has been too interesting for me to really be that age...

Look 50 I am told, Ski younger, but MTB like a Saga-lout.

Saga lout . . . I like that. At last, something to aspire to 😆

I recently realised I was born closer to the end of the First World War than today.

No wonder my kids think my birth year is ancient times...

It was only recently I worked out that people don't really grow up, they just get older.

Still a teenager at heart although my body is starting to feel the 30 odd years of windsurfing and biking abuse.

I always feel at least 20 years younger than I am. Especially when I'm working, where I'm constantly amazed that people take me seriously, and I live in constant fear that I'm about to be exposed for (badly) impersonating a proper grown up, and pretending to know what I'm on about.

I'm constantly amazed at the apparent acceptance of what I say as fact.

I know I'm an engineer, but $1,000,000's riding on a calculation I did on a sheet of A4 scares the bejesus out of me!

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I'm constantly amazed at the apparent acceptance of what I say as fact.

I get this too, but it helps that I'm usually right 😈

The person who impresses me a lot is Fraser Scott* - Fraser's been a mate for years, and he hasn't changed a bit, still cycles about everywhere on the illegally powerful electric bike I built him, rides motorbikes, keeps coming up with new inventions, comes in to tell me about the latest book he's read and harangue me for being rubbish at business, and he look about 60.

He's eighty.

*Inventor of the Scottoiler.

I feel quite young, until I try and keep up with my 29 year old son on his bike (when did he suddenly get faster than me?), I'll be 59 in May. 😕

What has brought the age thing home to me most recently is this..

The head of OfCom was on Telly on the BBC this morning. She looked 18.
Also, they had an interview with someone who was representing a Council somewhere.. whilst normally you'd see a Jeremy Corbin type covered in Corduroy, this was a girl who looked 19. They also chatted to a Business head of "something or other" again, looked about 22.

(and before you call me out for being sexist, thats a small example)

In my line of work I see lots of fresh young faces come and go, this intake of Grads has lasted well, since October15 of the 60 odd taken on there must be only 13 left. All look like they should still be in Prep School, all only interested in their own opinion or Selfie or "profile" and are all full of the joys of Spring and WhatNot.

Whilst I enjoy their enthusiasm, the Youth thing is lost on me. 😕

Have been phoning around for some accommodation for a weekend in the hills for myself and a couple of mates, had to correct myself by asking for digs for "3 young lads" but I still feel like a young lad... My knees, back and beer belly disagree.

About 20 years younger than I am. Photos come as a shock.

+1 and demo days when I forget that the young turks are probably 30 years younger than me - no wonder they are faster.

Work is balance between a few grey hairs = gravitas and Life wanting no grey hairs and no reading glasses. Currently at the tipping point!

I've got a job on tomorrow in some achingly trendy design agency in the Northern Quarter. I've had a look at their website. Its going to be all skinny jeans and waxed beards. I expect I'll feel about 106 😥

18 in my head, 37 according to the birth certificate. My back sometimes appears to be about 90
Hairline is not 18 anymore either 😈

I'm 45, kind of grew up a bit and got all serious about life when the kids were born but now they aren't babies any more (11&8) I have quickly reverted back to the same attitude to life I had in my twenties. Still training hard and pushing myself on both the road and off it and living life to the full. No intention to change just yet!

It was only recently I worked out that people don't really grow up, they just get older.

I agree with this. I know I'm 47 and don't imagine I'm any younger but what surprises me is I don't feel or think any differently to how I always have. When I was 16 I thought a 47 year old was some old crock. Of course that is how today's 16 year olds must see me but who gives a shit what they think, they will never afford a house 🙂

22 in my head, I left uni last year right...... Actually 38 next month! I'm getting bike parts for my birthday from my Mum though so that must make me younger!

hanchurch, I read that as "bike pants", which sounds like something for those of advancing years

Yeah, bike pants are for old farts. Me, I have my lucky rocket pants 🙂

Not swearfilteravoidance 50!
I have the body of a 25 year old ( I keep it in the freezer)

I certainly don't think if myself as 50 and thanks to some exercise and no smoking I am not often believed to be 50 chronic immaturity helps. I have spent my entire life worrying that proper grown ups will see through me and take away my front door keys etc. I think life's big secret is most decent people feel this way and those who think of themselves as proper grown ups are at best dull and at worst psychopathic.

I feel as old as I am, which is better than I felt a decade ago when I felt a lot older than I actually was.

The guys I've been out riding with recently are around 40 and I sometimes have to remind myself that I'm old enough to be their father. They tend to leave me gasping on the hills but I don't struggle to badly on longer rides.

I'm regularly told I look at least ten years younger than I am but I seem to have a wishlist of things to do/places to go that's getting longer, not shorter.

Mind of an 18 year old
Body of a 50+ year old
Birth certificate of a 31 year old

73 here, going on 30 (or so mrs busydog says). Still MTB a couple times a week, but for some reason, trails I have ridden for 25+ years seem to take longer with each passing year. I have gotten past the point where I really "need" a new bike every other year. All things considered, I can't complain.

In one of my first jobs a fubar by another member of staff (he went to the bank to cash a company cheque and cocked it up in such a way that resulted in the staff locking him in a back room and calling the cops) was excused by the boss as down to the fact he was 'only a youngster'. When I pointed out that I was quite a bit younger he said 'yes, but you were born 40'.

Not sure, but i was lying in bed with a 54 year old woman this morning, that can't be right, can it!

30 year old, body feels like a 70 year old especially my knees.
Act like an 18 year old on the bike.
Miserable grumpy old man the rest of the time.

When I was late teens all I wanted to do was ride bikes and get p*ssed.

Now 50, and have picked up a decent job, mortgage, wife, and kids along the way, but really all I want to do is ride bikes and get p*ssed. (Albeit these days that means a good bottle of wine or 4 or 5 pints of decent beer).

Can't see that ever changing until I'm physically no longer able to do either.

I think I was [i]born[/i] old.

Since I sprouted the zz-lite style white beard I now actually look as old as I feel: ancient.

The Loon keeps telling it makes me look 30 years older. Yup, he's a charmer.

(Started to work on the second half of the century in reality)

BillMC - Member
I still enjoy the stuff I did in my 20s only now can indulge in it a bit/lot more. Early retirement is key to doing loads of what you like while you can

Actually, I find it quite liberating because really I don't give a stuff what other people think and also because young sprogs don't expect you to be able to do anything and it's nice making them have it sometimes.

a) we're all middle-aged if UrbanDictionary [s]is[/s] was to be believed.

b) I'm in my early- to mid-40s and I'm surprised at how many people are way older than I am.

I always kind of default to "we're all the same age," I'm mentoring teenagers at the moment and still fall into the same trap.

I think of myself as 25. I'm 40.

Stopped growing up mentally ages ago. 46 the other day, and I felt like 46 if not older 🙁

25/40

Head says 20-odd, birth certificate (and body) says 41... It's true that while ageing is unavoidable, growing up is entirely optional 😀

When people say 'act your age' you can reply with 'I've never been this age before so don't know how to act!'

I'm 50 mostly ride bikes with my 11 yo, my daughter is 14 tmw and frowns at my childishness often.

Being grown up or old will be a shock.

My daughter often tells me to grow up. I tell her that growing up is for older people.
I turned 60 two weeks ago and am retiring early at the end of April 😀

Went to a gig, recently and thought the place was full of old gits. Mentioned it to my 26 year old daughter, who was also in attendance. She immediately took a picture of me on her phone, showed it to me and suggested that I reconsider my remarks.

I did a two week physical course with twenty-somethings recently. I wasn't slacking or tired at any point. In fact I was the first to volunteer and I miss it 🙁

People have said 'grow up' before. My reply is 'don't you mean lose your zest and become tired and weary of life'?

You can have fun etc and still have a mortgage ffs.

Can't tell how old I am, I still feel quite young despite my responsibilities.

Every time I try and guess from my reflection in the mirror some old looking bloke keeps sticking his head in the way. 😉

Op,

You young man! 😛

I'm 40 in a couple of weeks yet I did associate myself with 20 years ago when I was at uni. I think it's because I grew up Norfolk and had never really experienced anything else to I went to uni. Nothing since has been such a major change, not even marriage and a baby.

50 and i look and feel every single second of it.
a life of hard sport, too much beer and a pretty bad diet for the first 40yrs has not been kind.

3 bouts of surgery in the last 10 year may not have helped. and 1 more session looming could hopefully not be too wearing.

45 but still feel early 20ish , even tho I'm a lot fitter now than I was back then and now with no added chemicals (it was the 90's! 🙄 😯 )

Hmm. I found stw in my 20s and I'm now in my 40s and still here.

The last few years has seen a growing realisation that I may be accumulating years. I think this started in my late 30s, when I remember double-taking a policeman and wondering if his parents knew he wasn't at school, and being consulted increasingly so at work in a 'knowledgeable elder' capacity.

Recently, I feel every one of my 42 years, with a trapped nerve in my neck, a remote control hand and muscle wastage in my arm.

🙁