I was born in 1989 and the math is HARD some days.
how do you not know how old you are?
I think it’s fairly common that people do some math in their head, specially when they get older than 30. Because it doesn’t matter really, you never need to tell anyone how old you are anymore. Well unless you use dating apps I guess, or date people… Nobody else asks your age.
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve been on one of those apps but do they not just ask for your birthday and simply calculate your age…? Surely dating apps don’t require you to update your age manually every year right…
I guess if you’re not using an app then sure but you could just as well tell your birth year and if it’s close enough it’s probably fine. 🤷
Do you guys not remember how old you are year to year? Are you frequently calculating your age from your birth year instead of just adding 1 to it on your birthday?
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 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!
They do have to calculate it, it’s just the calculation is a bit easier for them.
They could also process the year as a string and drop the first two characters.
But we’re not really calculating anything. I was 12 in 2012 and 8 in 2008. That’s much less a calculation and more so just observing numbers.
Math like that is really simple if you take it in easy chunks.
For example, to calc your age, just take the years from birthday to 2000 (11) and add it to the years since 2000 (23). 11 + 23 = 34.
Best part is the first calc never changes - so if you remember thst number it’s just like having a 2000 birthday. Just add 11.
It changes once a year, how stupid are some people that this is an issue?
Wait till you get a little older and start having a hard time remembering how old you are.
All becomes a blur at some point
My exact age is almost never relevant in my day-to-day life, I pretty much only get reminded of it on my actual birthday and don’t think much about it for the rest of the year. So if somebody asks for my age, usually I’ll be off by a year or two and my wife will need to correct me, because for some reason she remembers.
