Born in 01. I’m excited to be 24 and have a celebration with my girlfriend and family, but I feel OLD.
What is the cutoff? When do you stop being a young woman?
Submitted 5 days ago by AuroraGlamour@lemmy.ml to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Born in 01. I’m excited to be 24 and have a celebration with my girlfriend and family, but I feel OLD.
What is the cutoff? When do you stop being a young woman?
0 to 30: young. 30 to 60: middle age. 60 to 90: old. 90 to 120: ancient.
Dammit but I thought I was as young as I feel!
Wait… That’s still old. Shit.
Damn my thoughts exactly. Those were the age ranges I immediately thought of.
18-24 usually gets grouped together for census and survey stuff so you got a good year left in the tank before you’re part of the 25-44 crowd
And a decade or so before your targeted ads switch from fast fashion, adventure holidays and entertainment to things like lawn care products and orthopedic footwear.
😮💨
You can consider yourself whatever you want for however long you want.
If you feel young and people thing you are weird for saying so that is their problem. Young is a feeling not a number.
Exactly. I am 29 and I recently was asked for an ID, when I was buying alcohol, lol.
Your brain isn’t even fully developed. Cmon now.
As someone in their 30s, you are a young woman
Sorry, but at 24 you’re practically on your death bed. ☹️
And nearly too old for dicaprio
See but the crazy part is that it just keeps get worse! One day you wake up and have back pain in places you didn’t even know could hurt!
“Old” starts at 60-65, not 24 xD
anyone born after 2000 is young in my book.
And will be for ever.
I used to think that but for “anyone born in a year after my birth year”, but now I look at some such people and realize that all people eventually turn older. :/ OP is a lot younger than even that though.
Thanks! I’m still young!
Yeah, come on. “Young” = no one would question the chromosomal health of your baby if you chose to have one right now. So it’s in the 30s when that starts to get shaky, but certainly not the 20s.
Young and old is relative. I side with those saying young is until 40, then you’re middle aged.
Whereas I’m in my late 40s and don’t feel particularly old… if anyone describe me as middle aged I’d assume they were joking around 😂
I’d just presume they mean you’re no spring chicken anymore. I’m in my late 30s, don’t feel old at all, most people say I look ten years younger than my actual age. But I don’t feel like I belong in the same category as someone in their 20s. Middle aged would be the most appropriate way to describe me in a couple years, even if I don’t look the part.
M26. I feel old as shit and it’s only gonna get worse. A lot of it is your attitude and environment, something i’m struggling with rn. You can still be young in your 60ies if you have wonderful people surrounding you.
So much of life is mindset. My momma is in her later senior years and still acts 25 in many ways (in a good way lol)
My grandmother said that old is always 3 years away, but IMO, the end of being a “young woman” is somewhere around 32.
Use it before you lose it
I just turned 60. To me you look like a very young woman. Make sure to enjoy your life. Tell your loved ones that you love them. Don’t do stupid things that will harm you later, because even though it may look like later will never come, it will.
Yes. You’re still young enough where you don’t seem out of place going to bars every friday night, and hanging out of the tops of limos going WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO as the limo drives down the street. The driver isn’t annoyed that you’re not acting your age. The driver is annoyed that his job is basically glorified babysitter on wheels.
But as a young woman, you need all of the advice. You need to do all the things. See all the stuff. And my advice is to do nothing. Relax, don’t do it. When you want to go do it. Relax. Don’t do it. When you want to come.
All the advice. None of the advice. Do everything. Do nothing. Life is all about making decisions. Some decisions you’ll love having made. Others you’ll later regret. Life is all about finding the road that leads to self acceptance and inner peace.
But shoot it in the right direction. We’re making it your intention. Live those dreams. Scheme those schemes. Got to hit me with those laser beams! Ow ow ow! Laser beam me! 1, 2, 3, 4
Leornado DiCaprio says you got 1 more year!
Yes you were a kid before and now you become a young woman
If you are asking it trying to get a sense of how other people view that age, you might want to assist with who are the people around you that are in the same age bracket and think about each of them when they are with you. How’s do they act, so they do anything childish. Do they seem different from how they were 4 years ago
I think you are a young person at that age. I’m 20 years older than you.
When i was your age, 911 happened. The world did not feel nearly as complex as your first 5 years as an adult have been.
How old you feel can change on a lot of things but man you have had to deal with a lot in those last few years and today is a bigger wtf Than the last 4 years, even before that COVID you had to deal with the first Trump administration (assuming you are in America) so where have you got to live with the I’m a young adult starting out in the world mindset? It has felt like one looming that after another.
Unless you are one of those that have been able to turn your brain off and not pay attention to the world around you, i have great sympathy for young adults like you. I think you are going to be the generation that defines the future, it might take another 30 years but you and others your age are going to have some strong opinions when you get into positions of leadership and i think it will be great for everyone when you get there.
You feel old, but i promise you that you aren’t old, that’s just exhaustion from life and maybe it’s the way generations are getting shorter.
Tech is where the world has been since the dot.com bubble and it reshaped the world. You were born at the beginning of a line of demarcation in history. I was born in in the pocket before that where the people that taught me didn’t grow up in a world that looks like today.
The Internet in your pocket is a new era and you are going to be one of the people that defines what modern humans are.
Products of an environment that changes every 6 months.
You are probably starting to see the world looking at people younger than you in a way you have never felt before, the bandits of DOGE are younger than you.
The highest paid athletes are starting to be younger than you
You are cruising through a threshold that might be hard to grasp.
But you are not old.
Not to me or many other people
If it bothers you know that how old someone comes across as really isn’t related to your physical age.
You can continue to think of yourself as a young woman for a while yet, but you still likely never stop feeling younger than your actual age. I know people 15 years older than me that act younger than i feel.
Not all, but a big enough number of women have told me 26 is when they stopped feeling like a kid, but many people have a concern with not being in their 20s, it really doesn’t mean much i promise you that you can feel great about your age no matter what it is and that the challenges in life that you need to solve for, and the solutions you need to use, are what make us feel younger or older than you are
This is a great response, OP. Read it well.
As has been said, 30. This is why my aunt Sharon has claimed to be 29 for as long as I can remember. She’s the only 29 year old in the nursing facility.
I’m 43. I say I’m old, but I don’t actually believe I’m old.
Don’t convince me otherwise.
For me (male) even turning 30 didn’t feel “old”; in my mind that was still basically in my 20s. When I turned 31, though, it hit me. Of course, it’s still not old, at most middle age, but hard to say you’re “young” anymore. But hopefully that means mature. You still have a lot of your energy and health, hopefully, but now also hopefully have a better understanding of what to do and how to make the best use of your life for your goals.
im moving the cutoff as i age and im not going to stop :p
Lol
Yes lol. You’re still a baby. The cutoff is in your mid-to-late 30s.
I’m 58. You are a young woman.
You soldering stuff is pretty awesome. I just joined the other day and ran across your stuff.
Welcome to Lemmy. Thank you for the nice comment.
I have children older than you. It’s a matter of perspective - I think anyone under 50 is young, and no doubt in 10 years time I’ll think the same of anyone under 60. I don’t feel that I really grew up until I was well into my 30s, and my career didn’t really get anywhere before I was 40, but now before I know it I’m retired. Relish your youth - it’ll pass soon enough!
Not a woman but I just turned 41 recently. Here’s the secret to life from here on out:
While your body keeps changing (slowly) your mind really doesn’t. So you’re going to feel the same as you always did! This is pretty cool!
I’m 34 and I still feel as young as I did at 24, I haven’t experienced any fitness “degradation”. However I don’t have kids; I imagine if that happens and responsibility for another human kicks in it could feel a bit different 😅
As you get older, ppl younger than you just seem youthful at ages you’ve already passed. You’re very young yet, don’t even be stressing it for a long time to come
serpineslair@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’d say anyone under 30 is “young”.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
I mean anyone before 40, really. Once 40, you’re middle aged.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 5 days ago
The “young adult” category is usually cut off by 30, though, according to Meetup groups and age-restricted social groups I’ve seen online.
AuroraGlamour@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Thanks!!