OK, yes, we are getting a bit older. But as a 70's born, I kinda take offense to being called a "Senior". Or am I just deluding myself?
Posted by Kaele_Dvaughn@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 162 comments

I'm still out-performing almost anyone around me. I am certainly not trying to do the whole "Clickbait"/ "Generation-Wars" stuff; we each have our strengths and weaknesses.
But this popped up when I went to do a Google search, and seemed a tad bit offensive.
Thoughts?
hotDamQc@reddit
Prepping for my second marathon, my numbers are better compared to my undisciplined 16yo self. Senior my ass, call me that when I will be 80.
Kaele_Dvaughn@reddit (OP)
Seriously!
I'm not at your level by a long shot; serious kudos. But I still do a crapton more outside and etc activity than most of my (ypunger) colleagues by a long shot
hotDamQc@reddit
Legs are the key. Big muscle group, just gardening (squat) or walking daily makes a huge difference.
nekkid_farts@reddit
A teenager called me Mr. (Last name) recently I almost fell over and broke my hip. Ugh.
pin00ch@reddit
We ain't seniors yet my peeps. Far from it. We are on 50ish. Still plenty of beans in the ...bean...farm
TurtleToast2@reddit
I did not need to start my day with this shit
GenX-ModTeam@reddit
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Salt_E_Dawg@reddit
Isn't "senior" supposed to be 65+?
bountiful_garden@reddit
Someone born in '79 is only 46. That doesn't make you a senior.
ItPaysForItself@reddit
Born in 1979. Will turn 46 this month. Do not feel anywhere close to being a "senior".
puckout@reddit
Same. Born in 1979 and turning 46 later this month. I hit the gym a little over a year ago, started skateboarding a few months ago and signed up for a Streetlifting competition that will happen five days before my birthday this month. There are no “seniors” here.
Moongdss74@reddit
Just wait, in the next couple of years you'll start getting mail from AARP. I got all sorts of bent out of shape when I started getting those at 48!
kevinpb13@reddit
Yup, I started getting them at 43, I flipped out. When I hit 50, my dear, dear mother signed me up as a surprise. I tossed the card and let it expire.
ItPaysForItself@reddit
My husband is 10 years older than me. 1969. He's already receiving those mailers and we both laugh. Secretly though, I'm not sure I will be as jovial as he is about it all, lol.
SuzPsych@reddit
Remember you can get a free spouse account!!!! 😈😈
internet_commie@reddit
Just get the membership! I did just for a lark, thinking it was a joke at my age (maybe 47 at the time) but you can get discounts for being a member.
I'm sure it has saved me ... well, ... maybe $100 already?
LessLikelyTo@reddit
My husband too. I know they’re right around the corner for me, but not just yet!
AgileMastodon0909@reddit
So AARP can’t discriminate based on age, so they will let anyone be members. My friend found this out in her mid-30s and signed up to get the discount on their cell phone bill.
TwistedMemories@reddit
You can be 18 yrs old and join for the discounts.
ItPaysForItself@reddit
Genius! LOL!
KickstandSF@reddit
I get my 15% AARP discount at Dennys. I laugh so hard it just looks like I’m crying.
MarqBarq@reddit
But but. The 10 benefits! 😀
due_opinion_2573@reddit
IHOP discount at 55!
MainlineX@reddit
With everything going on, this is what you care about? DIAF. You old F. (I'm 79 too).
ErraticLitmus@reddit
The articles says "between". I take that as technically 1978 is the senior limit 🤣
ssquirt1@reddit
Born in ‘73 and will be 52 later this year. If AARP won’t take me yet and a senior living community won’t let me move in, I’m not accepting that mantle just yet.
BikeInternational412@reddit
In the same age. Bad news (or comforting news?): AARP has no age restriction. But are you like me and think some of those senior living places will be pretty dope? I feel like they’d be nice and quiet….
ssquirt1@reddit
Oh hell yeah…the older I get, the more I like quiet.
SpaceMonkey3301967@reddit
GenX rules a number of cool decades! I'm at the upper end (1967) I was 12 years old in 1979. I was 12 years old in '79 and went to my first rock concert that year:
Styx at Cobo Arena in Detroit. My older brother and I begged my straight-laced dad to take us. To his credit, he did.He was an old dad. He was a teen in 1920-30. His Jam was Big Band music. He was a concert-goer too. He saw Glenn Miller, Artue Shaw, Frank Sinatra and such.
The area was filled with cigarette and pot smoke at the Styx show. People were tossing firecrackers off the arena balconies into the audience during the show. It was nuts! But that was standard practice then. Rock concerts in the 70s were a risky event. Extreme. You took chances just going to a show. Contact pot buzz at age 12. My dad felt high too. I just know it. He made us stop at White Castle on the way home.
Don't laugh that it was Styx. It was the Grand Illusion tour. It fucking rocked solid. April Wine opened up. Dad loved the drum solo.
Dad also took us to see Rush and Van Halen. 1980 and 1981. Fucking awesome shit.
ItPaysForItself@reddit
I love this!! My husband (1969) started working concerts in high school in New England. He has the best memories! As a '79 GenXer, I am mesmerized by the freedom I hear earlier GenX experienced. Y'all are the most resilient and brightest. Rock on!
SpaceMonkey3301967@reddit
Yes! The 70s rock shows were super exciting because there seriously was a fear factor involved. Not cool but people got hurt. People died.
And the bands on stage obviously didn't give a rip about anything but creating a party atmosphere.
I forget what show it was where I was at where the singer told the audience in the arena to jump their seats and "Come on down to the stage!!"
It was a crush of people running forward jumping chairs! I was in the cheap seats in the upper bowl to watch the insanity.
1982 is when my older brother got his wheels and I saw my first concert without my dad. I saw The Who. I fucking love The Who! Man, their old shows were nuts!
I was hooked on live shows at an early age. I went into punk rock. Saw my favorite band The Jam at age 15. Crushed to the front of the stage. The Clash and on and on. Going to rock shows was my youth. I saw The Ramones live some 15 times. Small clubs. Dancing drunk and having a blast.
MeadowLea79@reddit
Same here. Turning 46 at the end of the month. Not looking forward to it, but I don't feel like I am a senior either. 🤔 Is this what our parents felt?
ItPaysForItself@reddit
Possibly a controversial take, but I don't think so. I think people were more comfortable with aging then because they didn't live in the society that we do. Our society is bombarded with staying youthful. And, I think we are better at recognizing the preventative steps to aging than our parents were because we have more information. *Full disclosure, I'm a plastic surgery nurse, so maybe my views are skewed* but when I look at the Golden Girls and consider their ages and current GenX at their ages...we're just different.
internet_commie@reddit
I was born in 1969... I'm getting closer and closer to 'old' every day, but I think it is a logarithmic thing, you know, one of those where you keep getting closer and closer but never quite 'there'!
uuid_token@reddit
Same but if someone feels like calling me senior, I got not problems with that.
Vegancyclist420@reddit
Right?!
moneymutantJP@reddit
I don't think I'm a senior at 47. If I had to put an age to seniors I wouldn't start until at least 60.
GratefulDad73@reddit
I still out perform those around me as well! My work ethic is old school for sure and the younger generations can’t keep up. The kids just coming into the workforce have zero common sense and extremely poor work ethics.
Balor_Gafdan@reddit
I'm 48, don't feel like a gd senior...
3of8ormore@reddit
My mind didn’t get past 19, we’re mentally young in an aging body we believe is still immortal.
I’m sure when time speeds up and a year starts feeling like three months I will be more concerned about my mortality.
Winterwynd@reddit
Late 1978er here, I'll be 47 in a few months. Why tf is AARP shit showing up in my inbox already? Geez.
PurpleHat6415@reddit
excuse me, senior my ass, I'm not even 50 yet
Hardjaw@reddit
But we get a discount and can live in quieter communities. I'm not 55 yet, but I look forward to living in senior only communities and eating at Cracker Barrel at 6 am.
B2Rocketfan77@reddit
You can call me Double Old Grandfather if I can get a discount!
Mr_SunnyBones@reddit
Its a chumbucket clickbait advert . doesnt serve any purpose and ideally should be be blocked anyway . No one with half a brain actually clicks on these
Good_Nyborg@reddit
I don't feel it, but I'll still be happy to be called it for 10% off, special senior menus, or anything else. There's no place that gives free ice cream just for being old right? Yeah, yeah, they'd go out of business... I was hoping though.
uncirculated_luster@reddit
senior golfers start at age 50--it makes me sick.
The_Info_Must_Flow@reddit
Delusion, clearly. Late 50s, here, and I constantly get AARP, cremation and estate planning SPAM.
Clearly some algorithm has me marked for death... and all considered, half hope it's correct.
PublicCraft3114@reddit
As a mid 70's kid myself I have gotten used to being called senior by now. I had bearly turned 30 before my job title included the word senior.
Curiousone_78@reddit
I am 47. Am I a senior? Nope. I don't think so.
theflamingskull@reddit
If it means I get senior prices, I'll take it.
bizzybaker2@reddit
I am 54. Went to a local diner recently, and saw a sign that their seniors discount was age 55 and up. Damnnit, soooo close!
Plus had to get over the fact they considered this age "senior". I have recently come to the realization I am at the general age that when growing up and observing my parents and their friends, I considered "middle aged" and even bordering on being "old" lol.
Kaele_Dvaughn@reddit (OP)
Serious point, that
Good_Queen_Dudley@reddit
Fuck that. 50 is the new 35.
WastelandOutlaw007@reddit
Is that because youll be working for another 30 years?
Sigh....
Good_Queen_Dudley@reddit
I’m already retired and I plan to off myself before the nursing home calls. I got it all planned out!
LessLikelyTo@reddit
I wonder how many of us GenXers chose not to have kids and have this same sentiment. I want to be in control of how I go.
IRingTwyce@reddit
I almost made it. Now I'm 53 with a 6 year old.
LessLikelyTo@reddit
Ahhhh!!! I’m on BC for peri. You being 53 with a 6 yo makes me want to take 2!!! I’ll bet you’re pooped!
WhatDatDonut@reddit
That hurt, bro.
DoppledBramble3725@reddit
I don't like the demographics pulldowns when they're like "age 40-75"
Ok_Andyl8183@reddit
They can fuck off with that shit. Unless you’re paying me the old age pension
Most_Routine2325@reddit
No one's gonna give you benefits for sitting there exploring your feelings on ageing. Go get those benefits!
R461dLy3d3l1GHT@reddit
Born in 1966. I’m in better physical shape than I have been in years (gym 2x/wk), menopause isn’t hitting too bad (yet), I have all my teeth, and my adult kids are a hoot.
Downside: I’ve had silver hair for decades. Most of the time, because of that, I am invisible or treated differently. I am often asked if I want help loading the groceries or hauling bags of soil. All I can do is flip my still-thick silver ponytail over my shoulder, walk tall and strong over to the 40 lb bags of soil, hoist a couple of those on one shoulder and march off, while thinking “yea, dammit, you BETTER watch me stomp away in my work boots, cuz you’re gonna remember me when you get to my age and wish you were this powerful”. 💪💪💪
Clever_Khajiit@reddit
'73, don't feel like a "senior" at all. But here I am, getting mail from AARP all the damn time 😆
mike71diesel@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlQpGeTbIE
Move your feet and dance to Junior and Senior.
SuzPsych@reddit
Oh F this ad!!!!
Quick_Dark244@reddit
Yea , I don’t like it. !
Prestigious-Salad795@reddit
I was born in 1969, and it's just funny to me. I think our line in this situation is Whatever.
Zelig30@reddit
My damn young employees like to point out my age all the time. But at the same time, two of them were born after 2002.
R808T@reddit
My local weed store lets me stack a 20% military discount with a 10% over 55 senior discount netting me 30% off all my weed purchases. Call me whatever they want I don’t care.
justisme333@reddit
Do I get a seniors card and a discount?
I will happily be classified as a 48 year old senior.
Odd-Comfortable-6134@reddit
Uhhhh I’m turning 48 soon, and this is what I think about being referred to as a senior:
🖕👁️👄👁️🖕
Gwaptiva@reddit
Wjat are these benefits? I'm 55, does this mean I shoudl've had these benefits for the past 10 years? Can I get them retroactively?
SpaceMonkey3301967@reddit
I'm 1967 born. 58. No f'n way am I a senior. A senior is age 70+.
IAmAWretchedSinner@reddit
Eh. '75'er here. They can call me a senior all they want. When my hair goes gray, I won't mind that, either. I earned those gray hairs.
ArtBear1212@reddit
I don't care if I'm called a senior if people give me discounts and freebies.
ContributionDry2252@reddit
60, but not a senior. Nor getting any senior benefits yet. 👀
Grundle95@reddit
I have 18 years to go before I’m a senio. While we’re all at the point by now where we know 18 years can go by way faster than you expected, let’s not get carried away with this.
Leafeay@reddit
Dude what the actual fuck?? Who writes this shit?! 😂😂
Even government funded programs trying to be "generous" to older adults place the age of senior citizens at 55 by the lowest age, some are at 60, and most all others 65. FSS.
unbibium@reddit
It's all probably AARP "membership benefits" so they can get you to join AARP and use that to siphon money out of you...
Techchick_Somewhere@reddit
I was so insulted to see the pharmacy near me has “senior’s parking, 55+. Woah - slow down a minute there. Them people is OLD. That’s not me. 😂
Tokogogoloshe@reddit
Call me whatever you want. What are these 10 benefits I can get?
StevieNickedMyself@reddit
'79 baby here. Where are my senior discounts?
Kakistocrat945@reddit
Born in 1975. How very dare they.
Reader288@reddit
I’m with you 1000% and I don’t wanna be a senior yet. If I’m officially 65 then OK but not yet
azchocolatelover@reddit
My husband is a couple of years older than me. When he got his AARP info, he snapped a pic of himself, giving the envelope the finger. When I got mine, I ended up adding him to my account.
Petulant-Bidet@reddit
Dude, many of us GenXers are getting close to actual OLD. "Seniors" starts at 65. However we can get an AARP membership at 55!
KickstandSF@reddit
Petulant-Bidet@reddit
If only they still let ya chain-smoke at Denny's. Hey do they still have "Moon Over My Hammy" on the menu?
KickstandSF@reddit
Yep. :)
No-Bed7852@reddit
WTF?
mtcwby@reddit
Senior is a state of mind. Born in 65 and never think about being a senior.
STGItsMe@reddit
You’re a senior. Get that 10% discount.
Abyssal_Mermaid@reddit
My grandma used to say the two cruelest words in the English language are “senior citizens”
Didn’t stop her from having the grandkids help her out at the slot machines in Vegas. I think she got a kick every time we were given the boot.
Cool-Group-9471@reddit
Yeah nah you don't want to hear senior now. There was an ad in our local freebie for apartments.
"Over 55 for the elderly"
I took a pic and posted it back on Facebook when we all used to go there you know. I was posting it for humorous reasons but I was actually perturbed. My friend said well now let's take it in perspective. I said Screw perspective. Some young jerk thinks that 55 is elderly.☠️😈🙉
WTF we going to do about this? I mean honestly. Keep being called senior or elderly as far away from you as possible. It's offensive, untrue and as far as I'm concerned, signifies Aunt B from Mayberry. And none of us ain't be like her. 🥶😱
CarelesslyFabulous@reddit
46 year olds are not seniors. This is ridiculous.
MinusGovernment@reddit
I gave up giving a shit what anybody called me shortly after high school.
69-xxx-420@reddit
Avg life expectancy is what? 75. You’re 50. That’s 66% complete. That’s pretty close I guess. 2/3 dead. Heh. Oh well fuck it.
Cool-Group-9471@reddit
70s??? I got socks and shoes as old as you
revdon@reddit
I just shrug and accept the discount.
Grouchy_Ad_3705@reddit
There is a lot going on and someone has to be the wise elder ffs.
Cudg_of_Whiteharper@reddit
Who the fuck is a senior?
They-Call-Me-Taylor@reddit
Born in 78 and currently 46 years old. I’ve never heard of someone in their 40’s being referred to as a senior lol
Baller_81@reddit
Marketing is behind all these bullshit, labeling and packaging you as a product that is sold in the shape of a ‘target audience’
So, they can go f’k a duck - my mother is a senior.
internet_commie@reddit
Try call my mother a senior, and you'll get a huge chunk of her mind, for free!
She is 93.
Baller_81@reddit
I am sure she would! I bet I can outrun her though 😎😁
bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit
I’m a señor.
Kaele_Dvaughn@reddit (OP)
Lol, that works
taylorevansvintage@reddit
Truly, it’s a rough label to assume. When I turned 50 not long ago I threw away the AARP card that arrived pretty much on my bday. No thank you!
internet_commie@reddit
I took it. Then I took the discounts it gives me. Not a bad deal, even though I have to have another plastic card in my wallet.
Entire-Meringue6995@reddit
Wait so 53 is considered a senior!!??😦😆
internet_commie@reddit
For advertising purposes, yes.
genx_horsegirl@reddit
Born in '66 and definitely will never be a "senior".
internet_commie@reddit
I was a senior in college once. That was enough for me.
drumorgan@reddit
Yeah, ‘68 for me. I won’t be a “senior” at 90 - that is for old people, not me
calaan@reddit
We’re old. It’s ok. It beats the alternative 😘
Kaele_Dvaughn@reddit (OP)
Aint that the truth.
NandLandP@reddit
Bring. On. The discounts.
Fun-Distribution-159@reddit
its a stupid ai written ad. who cares.
elpollodiablox@reddit
I'm 50, and I would embrace getting senior discounts on stuff. I want my $5 discount on haircuts, dammit!
Tasunka_Witko@reddit
I was getting letters from AARP in my 30s because I have been working since I could get a job at the local pool when I was 14 (concession stand)
ProBuyer810-3345045@reddit
That ad is ridiculous, if somebody was born in 1979 they would only be 45 or 46, hardly a senior!
Repulsive-Machine-25@reddit
A little bit of me just died.
xgenman@reddit
Fucking ridiculous
badgerpunk@reddit
I won't accept the label "senior" until at least half of the boomers have crossed the rainbow bridge. Until then, please just call me old.
Borisvega@reddit
80 here. Phew. Still young.
ItPaysForItself@reddit
Show-off!
Kaele_Dvaughn@reddit (OP)
Lol
looselyhuman@reddit
Oof.
tigers692@reddit
Fuck these people, I have never been offended, but I want to find the folks that wrote this and teach them some new dance steps.
ChronoMonkeyX@reddit
Wait, what are the benefits? I'll take what I can get, you can call me old.
Kaele_Dvaughn@reddit (OP)
Responding to many comments at once:
OK, I'll accept "Middle Aged"... as much as I hate it. But since most of us will be dead by our 80s or 90s? I'll accept that.
But "Senior"? Naw, that just doesn't work for me.
iamasturdlevinson@reddit
I’m here for the senior discounts tho
WinterMedical@reddit
I don’t care what you call me, just don’t call me late for dinner.
tekfunkdub@reddit
I’ve been called worse. I just see 10 Benefits
Petulant-Bidet@reddit
By the way, all y'all who are in denial about us getting old sound like FUCKING BOOMERS! What, are you all rushing out to get Botox or some other Boomer-flavored stay-young-forever shit?
We're Gen X. We can get old and enjoy it. Think about it, really old-old people are kind of like Gen X to begin with: cranky, drink too much, they do whatever they want no matter what people say.
Think_Leadership_91@reddit
These ads are meant to piss you off so you react
VerdantField@reddit
At some point the marketers will realize that there is no age at which Gen X will be “senior.” They can’t force us.
ItPaysForItself@reddit
Hell yeah!! Fight the power!
KlutzyProfessional8@reddit
Fuck it. Lunch discount.
LessLikelyTo@reddit
WTF?! I’m a Xennial and I take offense to Ma’am
woodbanger04@reddit
No. I think you have it wrong they are speaking Spanish and they spelled it wrong it was meant to say “señor“ 🤣
Ok-Limit-9726@reddit
Senior title should be the countries official retirement age,
67 in Australia, +/- 5 years for others.
They even made it that boomers could draw down on their superannuation (401k usa) at 55, raised to 60 for GenX 1965, same as pension age 65 to 67
GenX getting screwed again!
JuJu_Wirehead@reddit
Wait what? I'm not even 50 yet!
Thedustyfurcollector@reddit
My 78yo mom was born in 47! There is no place in this world for her and I to be contemporary in senior-hood. I'll be 59, so I can review in a few communities, but pretty much everything is 65 now. Recently AARP. Thru came at me when I was still in my 40s.
ThatLiberalGirl@reddit
76’er here. The girl at the local TJ Maxx rings me out with the senior discount on Mondays. She looks about 20, so she probably thinks I’m old af. I take my discount, whatever.
TurnoverFuzzy8264@reddit
I'm an early (1966), and I give not two wet farts, to which I will not venture for decency's sake. Close enough for government work, as we used to say. Senior, or so enough, no other choice but depart this mortal coil.
bluntpointsharpie@reddit
A few years back, I went to the grocery store, bought some stuff and as usual on the way out, I looked at my receipt. To my Horror, there was a 10% senior discount. I wanted to go back and give them a piece of my mind, but then I figured 6 bucks what the hell. Might as well take the win and move on.
Kaele_Dvaughn@reddit (OP)
Well, I *DO* admit to being able to find the "Y" and "O" keys on a keyboard, and I am able to use them.
I grump a bit about people using "u" and "ur" instead of "you" and "your". Not to mention "Literally" being used instead of "Seriously" or other options.
So perhaps I *AM* old and grumpy enough to be considered a "Senior".
I still run circles around the danged blasted "Yutes" (My Cousin Vinny) at work (/s)
hocfutuis@reddit
I recently got new car insurance, and was horrified to learn that, as a 1980 baby, I qualified for an Australian Seniors policy.
jetpack324@reddit
Right there with you. I’m recently 60 and in the last 5 years, I’ve hiked/camped 740 miles on the Appalachian Trail and taken up scuba diving. I also walk 2-4 miles almost every day. I might qualify as a senior by age, but I won’t act like a senior just yet.
KaitB2020@reddit
Wait?! What?!!!
I’m a senior now? Since when is 50 a senior anything. I’m not even anywhere close to retirement.
These whippersnappers need to stop redefining & rebooting stuff.
geof2001@reddit
Ah quit your bitching and fetch my readers so I can read what these 10 benefits are all about!
OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit
All those low-effort clickbait ads use AI to generate their headlines. I wouldn't put much thought into what they say.
Spiteblight@reddit
AI knows exactly how my cervical discs and knee cartilage look though.
It's seen all of our radiology reports and our medical chart notes. It knows we are old.
chuckbass-duh@reddit
It really is hard to resemble that generalization when I still run to dance anytime I hear “Back Dat Ass Up” intro 🤷🏻♀️
gigantischemeteor@reddit
Fuckin’ clickbait. ‘61 and later ain’t retirement age, and ‘71 and later ain’t seniors by even the most generous of definitions. By the time we get there, they’re gonna have to consider realigning those ages anyway… that’s long overdue. We all know we aren’t going to be able to afford to retire, and “55 = Senior” is some Great Depression era ish, yo!
CourtCreepy6785@reddit
Next year, I'll be elgible to move into my town's finest 55+ condo "community." If I had $350,000 burning a hole in my pocket and loved pickleball parties, I'd be pretty excited.
Kaele_Dvaughn@reddit (OP)
Yeah, I *WISH* I could afford a house. Had the hint of a possibility in 2014 when I moved to where I now live.
But my entire life had been about moving every 6 months -> *maybe* 2 years... and thus I assumed the same would happen again.
Now nearly 11 years later, my rent has jumped 85% in the last few years and the possibility of buying a house is likely out of my reach. I now make enough to consider buying a house... if it was still 2014.
No chance now.
genx_horsegirl@reddit
Hells to the no.
Natural_King2704@reddit
All of these young uns in here