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Tvmouth t1_jae7rrc wrote

Reply to TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain

This is why older people seem so desperate for your attention, they think it's friendship, not persistent lecturing. They think it's mutual when they tell you how to live your life. How tragic.

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LittleButterfly100 t1_jae6xx9 wrote

Reply to TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain

This tracks with me. I was always described as "going on 30" and felt more grown than my peers. But at 25 I noticed I felt like 23 and at 28 felt like 25. At 31 I might feel like 28 maybe 30. More experienced, facing different goals, more assured of myself, but not over the hill and not out of touch.

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NickSwardsonIsFat t1_jae6pa6 wrote

Reply to comment by VegetaIsSuperior in TIL the legendary story about a janitor who came up with Flamin' Hot Cheetos was a lie. by Station_Emotional

NPR suffers from the same biases that any news organization does. In this case, the journos there love the sound of a rags to riches brown immigrant story.

If the story was about a gun-toting Trumptard saying he invented flamin hots, I bet they would have debunked it in about 30 seconds. Or they wouldn't even run the story and it would have gone on Fox news instead.

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LittleButterfly100 t1_jae6h4a wrote

Reply to comment by decrementsf in TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain

I can see that but even still, just because you FEEL like you're ten doesn't mean your physical body is not beholden to laws.

I think we talk about subjective age often. And in therapy it's common to use an idea of "inner child" and "inner guardian" in discussion. I think most people has a part of them that feels like a small child - someone who may be scared or easily amused/excited/awed, who feels hurt from small things or is needier than a self sufficient adult.

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iskin t1_jae68w2 wrote

Reply to TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain

In my 40s and definitely experienced this. Recently I started exercising like I was in my 20s and took it too fast. I woke up the next morning on the verge of a heart attack.

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