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When you were little, how old did you think people used to get, and at what age did you consider a person old? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100.
But it also made me think that people only get old when they're like 80.

I mean like actually "old". The "old" adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different "old".

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[–] garbagebagel 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like to call anyone older than me old because it's funny and I perpetually feel like a child.

When I was little I thought my parents were old, now they are in their 60s and I think they are young, and I am the age they were and still feel like a child. Otherwise I'm not sure I really had a concept of age as a tie to mortality when I was younger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Everybody older than me is old and basicly dead, while everybody younger than me is a child.