How many of you get your age wrong for most of the year?
Posted by quittersprosper@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 97 comments
I was hanging out with family this weekend and had to do some serious math before I remembered that I’m turning 44 this year. Did I spend most of the year thinking I was 42? Yes. Did I miss much by not realizing I was 43?
Not even a little bit.
mightysockelf@reddit
I dunno about you, but I'm feeling eighty two. And I'm not just talking about my birth year.
JPMoney81@reddit
Physical Labor job worker here and fellow Xennial.
I felt this comment so much that I threw my back out.
Working mind-numbing trades jobs since I was a teenager means I'm 44 with the knees, back, shoulders and neck of a 97 year old.
Hey, at least all my bosses made a lot of money off my hard work!
mightysockelf@reddit
Bro, same. Worked in the trades for years and years, and I actually had to get a back surgery 10 years ago due to a workplace injury. So now I get to walk around with joints creaking and groaning from years of physical labor, but hey, at least I'm handy enough that I don't have to pay someone to repair anything around the house.
absenceofheat@reddit
Dang you ok buddy?
mightysockelf@reddit
ladom44@reddit
Never. I'm born in 1980 so my age always matches the year : 2026 = 46.
For futuristic dates, I simply add 20.
In 2156 I'll be 176 years old.
NightWriter500@reddit
I do this exact same thing, but I was born in late December so I’m always wrong.
prettyokdiscgolfer@reddit
1980 math gang!
MyNameCannotBeSpoken@reddit
I don't want to know how old I am.
I'm 25 til I die
EishLekker@reddit
>Never. I'm born in 1980 so my age always matches the year
Always? Meaning you were born on January first? Otherwise this would result in an incorrect result each year, during the time until your birthday.
ladom44@reddit
I'm from April. I know that in 2035 I'll be "almost 55" from January to April, and then I'll be 55.
EishLekker@reddit
So, it doesn’t always match the year… if someone asks you for your age in February next year, ie 2027, will you say 47 even though you’re still 46?
ladom44@reddit
I'll say I'll be 47 in April
ladom44@reddit
Also: I'm French, and years from 1980 to 1999 are pronounced (19) 4-20, 4-20-1, 4-20-2... 4-20-10, 4-20-99.
So from 1981 to 1999 I know which age I was each year by not saying "4-20".
E. g. in 1998 (19-4-20-18) I was 18 years old.
StephInTheLaw@reddit
As long as I can remember what year it is, I’m golden.
Late-External3249@reddit
I was born in the latter half of December so subtracting my birth year from the current year only works for like 2 weeks.
Nervous_Humor6165@reddit
Found my people!
6BigZ6@reddit
Same, but born in November’79.
LooseMoralSwurkey@reddit
How did you log into my Reddit account??
CommandAlternative10@reddit
God knew I would be bad at math and did me a solid.
TheMatt561@reddit
It's so convenient
RedditsCoxswain@reddit
I just do this plus 2
TheMatt561@reddit
too much math
Skore_Smogon@reddit
Same. Never mix my age up.
Now, I was born in November so most of the year I'm behind but it's still not a problem.
lastchance14@reddit
I don’t really get asked my age. They know I’m legal.
comprehensivewarning@reddit
Constantly. I'm forever having to math it out.
lnc_5103@reddit
I told people for nearly a year I was 35 until my husband gently reminded me that I was 36 and almost 37 🤣
badchefrazzy@reddit
I'm convinced the entire generation is about mentally 20-25. Our brains are quantum and these piece of shit bodies are grounded in time.
Skore_Smogon@reddit
10 years ago still feels like the 90s to my brain
yelloworld1947@reddit
A younger coworker asked me do I remember when the iPhone launched, and I told him yes of course. He tells me see that is a sign that you’re from another generation because he was 5 years old at that time.
badchefrazzy@reddit
Same :/
Username524@reddit
Yep. You must also be a believer in our Lord and Savior, LSD.
59apache01@reddit
I try not to think about it.
NBKiller69@reddit
I've been "27... oops, I mean..." for about 16 years now
Fairisolde@reddit
Last year I was convinced that I was 44 and now that I really am I think I’m 43. I get vaguely offended when I see my age on a chart…
martapap@reddit
Once the new year passes I start thinking of myself as the next older year that I will be that year. I was surprised to learn this is how Koreans calculate age too. I thought I was just weird.
Listening_Stranger82@reddit
Me. I keep adding a year. I JUST turned 44.
When asked "I'm 45" 🫠
bgva@reddit
I now spend more time trying to figure out how long ago 1982 was. And of course the answer is 17 years ago.
FunkbotOne@reddit
haha thought it was just me!
MetsFan3117@reddit
Idk why but ever since I turned 46, I keep thinking I am 47. Very strange.
Gemini_writer8@reddit
Funny you should say that. I'm turning 47 tomorrow and I've been thinking I'm 47 for the last few months.
cashews_clay15@reddit
I’ve literally had to put it in a calculator to make sure I wasn’t insane because I genuinely didn’t know how old I was a few years ago.
Lower-Tomatillo-9513@reddit
I was born at the very end of '81. Sometimes its tough to think how I'm only whatever age I've come to that year for 5 days of that year. It's mostly if I'm thinking about previous years. Like when I think of when I was 18, I think of '99 but really I was still 17 for like 99% of that year.
YoureABoneMachine@reddit
I always think I'm older than I am. Then when I have a birthday I think I'm turning even older instead of the year I'm actually turning. For instance I turn 48 this year except I already think I'm 48 so I started to think I was turning 49. So then I started telling people I was nearly 50.
ChiMara777@reddit
I barely know what year it is, so I definitely don’t know my age.
No-Championship-8677@reddit
This is simply never something that happens to me and it mystifies me that other people can’t remember how old they are 🫠
luxtabula@reddit
I stopped counting after 40. My wife reminds me how old I am frequently. I usually say either 40 or 45, I don't care about the precise age anymore.
quittersprosper@reddit (OP)
What a relief to wake up this morning and know I’m not alone!
Immorpher@reddit
I dont even know my age right now, im somewhere in my 40's haha.
BigRagu79@reddit
Just now, reading that other post about turning 46. Took me way too long to realize I wasn’t the same age.
GravyPainter@reddit
My wife: Happy Birthday.
Me: for real?
Ancient_Might_942@reddit
I stopped counting after age 30. At Christmas my mom asked me how old I was and I said I didn’t know and I honestly didn’t. I feel like a teenager/20 something trapped in an older person’s body.
Illustrious_Owl_9693@reddit
I’m 40 now, so I’m good until Nov 🤣
ObviouslyRealPerson@reddit
Anyone asks my age, I have to first figure out what year it currently is
MirthRock@reddit
Hahaha this. “Wait…what year is it again?”
eggs_erroneous@reddit
Cops: Where were you last night between 8 and 10 pm?
Farnsworth: Where am I now?
Paraphrasing, ofc.
eggs_erroneous@reddit
Yes. My birthday was last Sunday and I forgot about it because it was mother's Day and I thought the 10th was the next day. It doesn't matter since I'm solo, but still it was weird.
Dunnersstunner@reddit
My birthday is in January, and as a 1979 baby if the year ends in a 6, for most of it my age ends in a 7 and so on. I'm used to it by now. The only trouble is throughout my life I'm doomed to have Christmas, New Years' and my birthday all within a few weeks of one another.
SilverAsparagus2985@reddit
Near Valentines child here. Everything is 3x the price before and after my birthday. 😒
nobearable@reddit
Hey there fellow winter blues baby...
Everyone is dead broke and hung over from holidays while we're over here like, "Let's go on a birthday trip!"
Dunnersstunner@reddit
I feel that. Although not so much winter blues because I'm in the southern hemisphere, but everyone's away on their summer holidays. Often myself included, but it's not really the best time for a huge party in my part of the world.
JohnnyBacci@reddit
Are you me? I sort of stop counting after my mid thirties, and my birthday is at the end of the calendar year. Somehow throws me off. Every few years I ask my sister how old I am, and she’s like, ‘you idiot’ 🙄
nohombrenombre@reddit
I’m the same way. My sister and I are 363 days apart though, and she’s the first of the year, so I get even more confused
nohombrenombre@reddit
Oh my gosh, yes lol! I have a birthday at the very end of the year, so that throws me off, as well. “Wait…I won’t be 45 UNTIL the end of the year. Even though it’s 2026.”
veglove@reddit
I'm always off by a year. Knowing that I get it wrong frequently, I'll try to compensate by taking my initial answer and adding or subtracting a year, which just makes it worse.
GardenRafters@reddit
All the time. Born towards the end of an odd numbered year.
thelizardlarry@reddit
My wife knows my age. Problem solved.
Which_Throat7535@reddit
Yeah, I have to ask my wife - her memory is better for that kind of thing 😂
gojo96@reddit
Glad it’s not just me!
taleofbenji@reddit
My wife is 6 months older than me and spends that entire time complaining about her age, so by the time my actual birthday comes around, I forget that I'm not actually that age yet.
Munchkin531@reddit
I'll be 42 next Sunday on the 31st. I don't think I ever get my age wrong unless it's just after my birthday and I'm getting used to the new number.
LlewellynSinclair@reddit
November 1981 baby here. I’m almost 35, right?
AndrewInMN@reddit
I’m acutely aware of how old I am at all times.
EquipmentUnlikely895@reddit
yesterday, last week and today... "how old am I?
JPMoney81@reddit
All the goddamn time.
I just did it again this weekend. Though to be fair I was talking to my dad who also didn't know how old I was.
TrixieLaBouche@reddit
Nah I'm 1980 so easy to calculate. Just have to remember after I've had my birthday 🤣
that1tech@reddit
I remember one time a place was carding everyone and the bouncer looked at mine, asked me my age, I answer with the wrong age by a few years, bouncer goes, "Wanna try again?"
I go, "Oh shit I mean" and give the right number
DarksunDaFirst@reddit
I don’t get it wrong. Can’t get it wrong if you stop trying to remember.
clayoban@reddit
For a whole year I thought I was 47 (stopped thinking about my age often), so when it was my birthday again and said to me wife I can't believe I am 48 she said what your 47? I did the math, she was right so I was happy that I was a year younger then when I thought.
Being stupid sometimes pays off.
statistacktic@reddit
After 45, I gave up.
the_ballmer_peak@reddit
Nobody likes you when you're twenty three
serotoninOD@reddit
Joker-Smurf@reddit
Mate… I was 21 for 4 years. Purely because I stopped counting and only realised I could not be 21 when my younger brother turned 21.
Same thing happened at 30.
I am still 40…
BasvanS@reddit
Not me. I just calculate it freshly every time I’m asked.
stavago@reddit
Lily_Thief@reddit
I'm exactly 30 years older than my son, so it's pretty easy
Notchersfireroad@reddit
Only reason I've always remembered my Mom's age my entire life. She is exactly 30 years older.
Notchersfireroad@reddit
I stopped counting 2 decades ago.
shrikelet@reddit
Not since I started calculating my age from a known date every time I have to think about it!
Individual-Schemes@reddit
I'll just stay 32. It's easier for everyone that way.
cjbr3eze@reddit
I would like to have this superpower
canisdirusarctos@reddit
I’ve had this problem since my early 30s. Somehow I missed one birthday and since then it’s quite problematic. It doesn’t help that my birthday is right in the middle of the year (today, in fact), so half of the year I was one age and now I’m another.
absenceofheat@reddit
Happy birthday! Just use chatgpt to calculate your age every time.
Negative-Wrap95@reddit
Considering that my birthday is towards the very end of the year? Oh most definitely.
TheGunny_12112000@reddit
For years I’d just say I was 45 and let people tell me I look good for my age. Now that I’m 45 I say I’m 50 and let people tell I look great for my age. I was always screwing my age up so I found this jus worked best lol
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
It’s easier when you keep it in perspective with smaller benchmarks that come up sooner so they don’t lapse memory…43½, 43 and three-quarters, etc. I’ve gotten the “It’s childish to keep up with half-birthdays this late in life”, and every time it’s been from women. Ok that’s nice, fuck you.
MonkeyCube@reddit
Same age; same problem.
Every once in a while I'll have to do some math to realize, actually, 43 has been the number for a while now.