Asklemmy

You look at your weekly pill container to know what day of the week it is.

I have learned the difference between "your" and "you're".

One of the biggest and most terrible things that ever happened to my province, which CONSUMED everything for a long time back when I was a teenager and people still talk about very passionately to this day, well meeting someone who has NO idea what this is makes me feel old.

Presbyopia

The amount of candles on you're birthday cake are so numerous that the fire department comes out.

You can't stand grindy videogames. You see young adults as children, and their behavior becomes irritating.

I find it takes much, much longer to heal from injury. That's the main downside I've experienced. When I say longer - when about 8 yo I broke my arm, it took 5-6 weeks to heal, maybe 10 to really heal, stop swelling ever and feel exactly like the other. When about 45 I broke my finger and it took 2 years to fully heal and feel like the rest of them.

But it also takes longer to get mad, I'm less irritable, more perspective I guess. Easier to feel happy/satisfied, too, it's closer to the surface now.

You start correcting people when they say "your" instead of "you're" :-)

My what?

Back pain

I don't heal as fast anymore. Cuts and scrapes turn into scars easier.

You mix up your and you're.

Vision. It gets hard to read in low light, driving at night is tough, you can't quite figure out how close or far to hold a book or phone.

Alcohol. You just don't shake it off like you did when you were younger. Now you really think about whether that next drink will be worth the shitty sleep.

Money. You talk about property taxes and 401k contributions more often than you ever thought you would.

Patience. You're more patient with kids and your parents, and way less patient with everything else.

definately physical pain on stuff you used to do on the regular. Had a job were I would get impatient waiting for a delivery and would jump off the dock to go check if I could see the truck. A little after I got into my thirties I jumped off one day and just stopped and stood still in a crouched position for a bit. I never "felt" the landing like I did that day before. It was the sart of what would be a long line of things I would cease to do.

Your perception and outlook on time changes a lot.

Everything seems to go by faster. Waiting for something doesn't seem that bad when it's in terms of days instead of hours, weeks instead of days, months instead of weeks, years instead of months.

When making long term plans, "how long you think you'll live" becomes more and more of a factor.

Your first gray pube.

Making interjections when standing up, from a chair, from bed, getting out from your car seat, etc …

The music I grew up with is “classic” and the “hits of yesterday” that I don’t recognise on the radio is “young people’s music”.

For me it clicked when pretty girls started tallking and being nice to me

Balls hang a little lower.

School dreams are very rare now, and when I have them the "cast" is all people from various adult jobs. I never knew my actual school mates as adults, so I guess my brain just can't fill it in. If I was actually transported back to high school and saw them again it would probably feel like being surrounded by babies, so makes sense that "central casting" sends in adult stand-ins.

I'm always an adult too. What's weird is I remember being a child. I remember my body being clumsy and awkward, I remember being confused by adult concepts, I remember being small. It never comes out in childhood dreams, I'm always my present age.

Worrying that every unexpected pain in your body will be cancer.

My knees. I am past 30, and my knees somehow don't want to bend anymore.

On the other hand the older I get, the smarter I get about life. Do some physical activity on a regular basis, keep some long term goals in mind, don't let your emotional state depend on external factors.

Find balance in your life and know your limits and you will be all right.

Asking what the signs of getting older are?? 🙂

Pain. Just pain and exhaustion doing everyday things. Recovery time from the same pain taking longer and longer as time goes on.

I'm not even 30 yet, and it really puts a damper on things.

When it gets "weird" wanting to do the young people stuff.