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?
(I was going to say I wish I was still around 10 years younger when I realized that people born in 2011 are going to be/are 14 and not 5.)
Other edit: It’s been almost 8 years since my Sweet 16. Holy crap. My sister was 6.
Not my experience, but that might depend on the people one interacts with. I’d also say that coupling being young to such a gendered parameter is questionable. When does someone who’s biologically male stop being young? What about people who can’t reproduce?
A person at age 40 (or 30 or any age) isn’t suddenly considered to be younger by anyone just because they’re infertile, in my experience. But heck, I don’t know; with all the anti-aging research going on, maybe we will be successful at ending age-related mortality in the next couple of centuries, and “old” would literally become just a truly relative number. For the time being, all I can say is that in my family and circles, about 35+ is considered not-young for any human, and especially 40+.