Justin JacksonAs a kid, I always assumed that older adults “felt their age.”
Now I’m nearly 43, but in my head I feel about 25.
I’ve learned that I’m not the only one! This phenomenon is called “subjective age.”
How about you? What age do you “feel” you are?
Stuart JonesReckon I've been 27 in my head for about 17 years now, whenever I thought about it (I'll be 44 in a couple of months time). Couldn't really say why, though.
Andrew Feeney@horuskol @mijustin 27 is probably about the age where we no longer wish to get any older. People are taking us seriously enough, and our physical bodies haven't yet stared to seriously degrade. Also, there's some evidence to suggest that the male brain reaches full maturity around age 28, so maybe that's got something to do with it.
That does make some sense, I suppose.
It also happens to be about the age when I decided to turn my world upside down (literally - I moved from the UK to Australia) - and while I've had a few other major life events since, that one was probably the biggest change all at once.