For like 3 years I legit thought I was older than I am because I did the math wrong on the fly once and never bothered to recheck it…

Your system is easier.

Hello fellow 40yo coming next year

‘87 here, kinda the same at this point lol

You’re 2035 years old? Wild…

depends if you’ve had your birthday that year

Oh trust me, my face is evidence enough alone.

I always thought it was nuts that people don’t remember, then I turned 30 and got married to someone who has a birthday less than a year before mine. Now I have two ages to remember (that are sometimes the same) and it takes a second for me to remember which is me when asked.

I frequently forget, because I rarely need my age in my daily life.

Bra I don’t know where I am let let alone how old I am

I find that the older I get, the less I discuss or think about my age throughout the year so it gets more difficult to remember. Also, my birthday is in January so it’s over pretty quickly and I don’t tend to think about it again while I’m busy thinking about my 4 kids birthdays that are coming up, instead!

That’s exactly when I started having trouble remembering. 30 was a milestone, but now I have to think for a few seconds before answering.

I’m guessing you are younger than 40.

Got to tell you, friend… birthdays don’t matter that much after you’re a few decades down the road. Just another day closer to death, but maybe you get to go out to a nice restaurant.

Sometimes I just forget ok? I mean it’s changing every year

Also I think it matters less and less in your life. As a child/teenager you got asked for your age all the time

It changes all the time (once per year) if you finally managed to remember it, it changes again.

As someone who is well out of the range where people need to ask for ID when I want something, I don’t concern myself with my age and frequently forget since nobody asks.

On official forms, they want to know my date of birth, not my age. Everyone I know socially, doesn’t care or already knows an approximation of it, thus I’m never asked. All my work colleagues are interested in is getting the job done, not how many years I’ve been in the workforce/how many years till I get to retirement age/whatever.

I don’t think about my age for more than a few hours a year at most. I don’t even celebrate my birthday. So the years come and go, and I think about how old I am so little that I often don’t even know how old I am.

You’re not wrong that it’s not hard to remember, but when you think about it as little as I do, you tend to lose track… So when someone asks me how old I am, I often don’t reply because I’m too busy doing math in my head to try to figure it out, quietly hoping they’ll move on from the question and I won’t have to answer it.

The hard part is which one will you remember. (I already had 43 different ages.)

I do. I know my age roughly of course, but I very very rarely get asked how old I am, so I forget the extact number.