[Closed] How old do you think of yourself as?

I'm still about 12 in my head.

I expect I always will be...

I'm 50 in June.

About 20 years younger than I am. Photos come as a shock.

I've got 22 years experience of being 18.

16 going on 17.

Depends if you're asking me as I crawl out of bed making crunching, popping and cracking noises or later in the day after meds, stretches, etc...
Either way I've got more than many but not as much as some experience of being 18 😆

45 going on 13 8)

I'm 60 soon and for my birthday I'm organising a bike race with some cycling pals on a local track to celebrate and to set the tone for the rest of my life. Most people think I'm about 50 and I feel about 40. My Mum is 86 and as fit as a butcher's dog; she leads a Ramblers' group every week and goes to the gym to lift weights, as well as singing in three choirs and doing hours at a local museum as a guide, so maybe it's in the genes.

I've been in my mid forties for the last 28 years.

Edit: by which I mean that i've always felt older in my head than i've actually been. Based on the other comments, I'm unusual in this regard.

I'm 44 now and only in the last few years have i felt that my body has finally caught up with my mind, age wise.

Have the sense of humour of a 6 year old though.

I am 50 soon.

I think I look my age and a couple of years.

However I am regular told I look a goood 8 to 12 years younger.

Mentally I have been told I am a perpetually 14 year old.

Hmmmm.. good question.

In my mind I'm 10, maybe 15 years younger than I really am.
Being the same rip old age as Call Me Dave I often wonder just how his skin looks sooooo blooming lovely and ripe, it's like I want to rip it off him and replace my craggy old fizzog with his. Of course, some would say "shave you scruffy git" and others say "nope you look distinguished" but to me, these days, I just look old.

And I don't like it.

I always get a shock when photos are shown of me or I do some random selfie whilst on the bike.. Then I immediately delete them, obvz 😳

Just turned 51 and the mirror reminds me of this every time. In my head I'm about 23

Mentally about 17, physically in my mid to late 60s thanks to osteoarthritis, but a new hip should get me back to my actual early 50s self soon enough.

38 and probably 19 in my head

Actual 47
Feel like 27

Good question, and one I was asking myself last night. Mentally about 18 I reckon but with a 41 year old body.

Early twenties, except all the times I ache & creak, and I always want to be in bed by 9pm.

(41).

I always feel at least 20 years younger than I am. Especially when I'm working, where I'm constantly amazed that people take me seriously, and I live in constant fear that I'm about to be exposed for (badly) impersonating a proper grown up, and pretending to know what I'm on about.

I was 46 last week, but even more worryingly, looking in the mirror, I appear to be pregnant 😳

Told you not to accept that drink off mrsfry Binners.....

I was 46 last week, but even more worryingly, looking in the mirror, I appear to be pregnant

If it's a boy, call him Gregg.

38 but in my head I'm still 23

Lately about 80.

As I always like to say, I'm 52 with the body of a 25 year old.
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in the boot of my car.

I don't really think of my age any more, sometimes I forget if I am 41 or 42 but I don't feel any particular age at all. My knees hurt more some days than others..

about 1/2 my chronological age, until I have to do something that involves close work. My arms are getting shorter I'd swear, and print is smaller than it used to be. Oh and people mumble all the time

c24 but going on 60 in reality. I still enjoy the stuff I did in my 20s only now can indulge in it a bit/lot more. Early retirement is key to doing loads of what you like while you can and this self-perpetuates. My 89 yr old mother has always said she feels 19.
Why 'grow up'?

29, realized that I'm closer to my boss' age than the person I'm working with, which is even more depressing when I don't think of the person I work with as 'young'.

In my head I'm 22 and just out of uni.

Twenty and a lot years younger than my skinny jeans says i am. Just need more butter and a shoehorn....and maybe a tractor...and someting for the pain

The child support for Binners is going to hurt...

Hmmm, a good question. I'm 41 but feel (mentally) about 25 or so. Physically, I feel about 60.

I can't believe I'm 61 & 62 this year - but gave up looking in mirrors a long time ago.

I play squash - vigorously - 3-4 times a week with those 20+ years younger & go MTB-ing about twice a week too. I don't feel much older than 40 and am told I look younger than my age - which Is good.

My dad died at 53yrs when I was in my 20s and I thought he was old then.....

50 a few weeks ago, probably feel 10 yrs less most of the time. Sore knees and more aches every year. Lots of riding and swimming - I work on the use it or lose it principle.

However after a great couple of hrs of techy frosty singletrack last night I am not really looking forward to my booked velodrome session at 9 tonight... 🙂

I'm 47 this year and I think that I'm... erm... 47 this year.

I know i would hate my 20 something self if i met him now, i'm rather comfortable being 30 something.

It helps that I work above one of the Kaplan accountancy training academies, I'd rather take the 7 flights of stairs up to the office than be stuck in a lift crammed with young people.

60 next year 😡 😯 but with the mindset of a 16 year old with 40 years' experience and an infantile sense of humour 😛

55 and feeling good - life has been too interesting for me to really be that age...

Look 50 I am told, Ski younger, but MTB like a Saga-lout.

Saga lout . . . I like that. At last, something to aspire to 😆

I recently realised I was born closer to the end of the First World War than today.

No wonder my kids think my birth year is ancient times...

It was only recently I worked out that people don't really grow up, they just get older.

Still a teenager at heart although my body is starting to feel the 30 odd years of windsurfing and biking abuse.

I always feel at least 20 years younger than I am. Especially when I'm working, where I'm constantly amazed that people take me seriously, and I live in constant fear that I'm about to be exposed for (badly) impersonating a proper grown up, and pretending to know what I'm on about.

I'm constantly amazed at the apparent acceptance of what I say as fact.

I know I'm an engineer, but $1,000,000's riding on a calculation I did on a sheet of A4 scares the bejesus out of me!

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I'm constantly amazed at the apparent acceptance of what I say as fact.

I get this too, but it helps that I'm usually right 😈

The person who impresses me a lot is Fraser Scott* - Fraser's been a mate for years, and he hasn't changed a bit, still cycles about everywhere on the illegally powerful electric bike I built him, rides motorbikes, keeps coming up with new inventions, comes in to tell me about the latest book he's read and harangue me for being rubbish at business, and he look about 60.

He's eighty.

*Inventor of the Scottoiler.

I feel quite young, until I try and keep up with my 29 year old son on his bike (when did he suddenly get faster than me?), I'll be 59 in May. 😕

What has brought the age thing home to me most recently is this..

The head of OfCom was on Telly on the BBC this morning. She looked 18.
Also, they had an interview with someone who was representing a Council somewhere.. whilst normally you'd see a Jeremy Corbin type covered in Corduroy, this was a girl who looked 19. They also chatted to a Business head of "something or other" again, looked about 22.

(and before you call me out for being sexist, thats a small example)

In my line of work I see lots of fresh young faces come and go, this intake of Grads has lasted well, since October15 of the 60 odd taken on there must be only 13 left. All look like they should still be in Prep School, all only interested in their own opinion or Selfie or "profile" and are all full of the joys of Spring and WhatNot.

Whilst I enjoy their enthusiasm, the Youth thing is lost on me. 😕