Feeling Old

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Sometimes, I just feel old. When I look at the world of today, I often think something to the effect of "You know, in my time...." ("My time" being 3-8 years ago). I feel my body is worn down and not as strong as it used to be and I notice much more small little pains, from the strain of lifthing things to general discomfort. I'm a bit of a hypochondriac (every time I experience great pain somewhere below the stomach it is appendicitis. When my testicles hurt, it's cancer. Strange feeling in my head? Aneurism.)

I feel like I've been in the prime of my life, and have passed it. I've noticed several stages in my mental development, and now I'm a pacifist, wise, experienced, and mature person. (Relative to my earlier self). I don't think I'm going to keep growing mentally, only my knowledge will increase.

I have difficulty keeping up with the times. Computer graphics from 2003 still make me think "Wow, this looks great!". That, coupled with the fact that I often long for times I wasn't even there to witness (The hippie movement, MS-DOS, the start of the internet) just makes me feel sad when I think about the times of old.

I think I've come full circle at the ripe old age of 14. I cannot possibly imagine a world in 5 years, or how I would be part of it.

Does anyone else feel similar?

I had a beard as a teenager. My nickname was Wolf-Man. Someone commented that I looked like a 50 year old when I was 17. Now I am 33 and I look about my age, but I am in better condition than many people my age (don't smoke, not obese, exercise a lot, eat good food, wear sunscreen).

YEah. I have tat problem. I am 18 and I feel so old. xD I feel like I should be in a nursing home. My head hurts, my eyes feel old and I am always overwhelmed. I don't think I ever had a prime xD I went from being a kid to an old fuddy-duddy. It doesn't help that when I am at school people regularly have no idea what I am talking about and when I look up what I did wrong, I find my words are archiac (It's not called Byzantium anymore -.- as I just found out.)

It's funny but...

I felt older when I was younger.

Now that I'm older, I feel younger now than I did when I was young.

I now look and am younger than my peers.
My mind has remained supple, as is my frame
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Well I have a noticable mustache and a bit of a beard. I'm told that when I stroke it (it's like a newly developed stim) it looks quite intellectual and weird at the same time. I think at 17 I'll have quite a lot of facial hair if I don't shave.

Personally, I'm not in too bad health. My weight is slightly above average, but my strength and endurance and all of those things seem fine. I'm never sick, either. And yet I feel like my body's falling apart.

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I don't think I've ever referred to Isantbul as Byzantium. My words are often quite...old-fashioned, though. Also, I'm either a very liberal conservative or a very conservative liberal, unlike my peers who would be liberal if they cared.

Last edited by Michael_Stuart on 27 Apr 2009, 3:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I have Old Age Syndrome as well! I have all the symptoms of it...hot flashes, memory loss and I forgot the rest. I tell stories to people of when I was your age.....(and I'm talking to a 90 year old). I remember tbe Atari when it first came out and thought it had good graphics! Now I gave my age away..... by the way, they should add Old Age Syndrome in the DSM V.

when i was a little girl aged 6 i felt like an old man of 90.

Ohmy goodness, I caanot believe you are 14!

Yes, I had that issue when I as 14. I looked like I was 9 or ten. I looked prepubescent until I was in my 20's. Did not get period till abot 19.

However inside i was very very old. Like I had lived before.

Andnow that I really AM old, I can say not much has changed,. I am not as rigid in my beliefs, but I knew the gig when I was 14. And I will be derned, Iwas right.

Once in Costa Rica, my family and I were at the hot springs. The top spring was very hot and the lower ones were colder and colder the further down you got. A stranger asked me how old I was. I told him, and he laughed at me and told me to cherish my childhood, because it was the best time of my life.

I always thought of him as a strange person, and didn't pay much notice to what he said, because my childhood was far from over. It seems you do not know to cherish things until they are gone.......

I don't, and never have subscribed to the "childhood are your best years" school of thought.

But my young friend, I do believe your best years are yet to come... All things being equal.

It's not so much that you're old chronologically as that you're leaving one stage of life behind, and when viewed from the perspective of that stage you're....old.

i know exactley what you mean bruh. i felt like a dinosuar when i was growing up. i wanted to be an adult right away and quit being a child for some reason.

I can relate to everything said in this thread. My mother once stated that I never was a child - I was born an adult. As a kid, I wanted to grow up as fast as possible, refused to wear shorts, and made a habit of striking adult postures. My classmates seemed unutterably childish to me. By age ten, I had difficulties "keeping up with the times", and by age fourteen, I suffered from all the little aches and pains that you describe, as if my body was falling apart. Today I feel part fifteen and part seventy-five inside, with very little in between.

I'm 27. I feel and frequently act like a cynical grumpy old man. I just feel this weight on my mind and, to a lesser extent, my body beyond my years.

I've talked to you before and you don't seem too much to be acting like a cynical grumpy old man... at least that's not the impression I get. You are fun to talk to and seem to have a good sense of humor.

You might feel old because:
1) parts of your brain have spun at a much faster rate than others your age, so you've "thought through" a lot more
2) peer pressure is non-existent
3) you can relate to adults much better than you relate to people your age

These were certainly true for me when I was 14. Wanting to be an adult when you're 14... that's normal for everyone.

14...that's junior high, right? Those were some of the darkest days of my life. Don't worry; things have the potential to get much, much better.

And by the way, life wasn't all that grand pre-internet. We were simply a lot more resourceful as human beings: phone books, real maps, hardback encyclopedias... Now I feel old now talking to someone who can't remember the pre-internet days.

It always bothers me to read something like "autistics are childlike" or "autistics look younger than they are" because damn it, I've always looked 2-10 years younger than my age and I've always FELT and come across as 5-20 years older. Whenever I tell people how old I am in person, they're shocked. When I was 21 and in a play, people thought I was in my early to mid 30s. When I was 18 and had a job, people thought I was in my mid 20s.

Right now, I'm 23 but look 30 and feel about 45. When I was in college, I couldn't relate to anyone, not even the professors... it wasn't me being egotistical it was just like I was on a completely different plane of existence from the rest of them.