Is it normal to forget your own age?

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?

BolexForSoup,
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After 30 I definitely started forgetting

masquenox,

At one point or the other you have to start actively forgetting it - which, as it turns out, I’m quite good at. Unfortunately, a whole bunch of people show up once a year to undo all my effort.

Growing old sucks.

sajran,

I’m exactly the same! Nice to know I’m not the only one.

In all seriousness, once you’re of age the exact number rarely matters and isn’t often used so I’m more surprised people actually remember it.

Zacryon,

If you are using a piece of knowledge rarely, it is less likely to remember it.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s some word from a foreign language you are trying to learn, a math formula or names and birthdays, even your own, or whatever.

I’m also terrible with names. But then again, I rarely use them. I even tend to forget my own birthday and would miss it if there weren’t people around me reminding me of it.

If other people know their age and birthday immediatly, that’s probably because they are regularly thinking about it. For names it is therefore helpful to use the name of persons you just got acquainted with very often in conversations with them.

RufusFirefly,
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The only reason I remember that I’m 64 is that I will be 65 on my next birthday. That’s kind of a milestone for a number of reasons and it’s easy to remember. The same was true when I was about to turn 50. Other than that, anything after 30 is kind of blurry

nutsack,

i forget all kinds of things i don’t give a shit about

phoenixz,

Don’t ask me my age. I can give youy birthdate, I can tell you in intricate detail how the bug bang -by out current knowledge- happened, I can speak 3 languages fluently, but don’t ever ask me my age!

ctkatz,

yes because math. next week it won’t be a problem because it will be a milestone multiple of 10 age.

Timecircleline,

Happy almost x-tieth birthday!

billwashere,

When you’re 53, yeah pretty much normal.

Donebrach,
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For me it was after 30 (the pandemic didn’t help). It also doesn’t help being stuck in a perpetual rut of vaguely late 20s lifestyle due to how fucked the housing market is and how stagnant wages are.

tooclose104,
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I was 33 for almost 2 years. Covid did a number on my interpretation of time…

stoly,

Yes,I have had to do math. It doesn’t really matter.

laurelraven,

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?

AceFuzzLord,

I recite my birthday a lot because of all the times I go to an anticoagulation clinic, but I never can remember my age and have to stop and count for a moment. It makes me feel kinda dumb, but it’s just something I don’t think about too often.

gramie,

I had a birthday and thought I was 28 for about 6 months, until my younger brother had a birthday and said that he was 27. I know that I am 2 years older than him, so I said that he had made a mistake.

It turns out that I had my own age wrong for those 6 months.

Rentlar,

I’ve gotten a funny look from the security attendant at the casino when I took a few seconds to answer my age when he was looking at my ID.

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