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.
Yeah, come on, of course. “Young” = no one would question the chromosomal health of your baby if you chose to have one right now. So it’s in the 30s when that starts to get shaky, but certainly not the 20s.
That’s a really weird definition of young.
So let’s have your better definition. Remember we’re talking about young adults, not literal young like kids.
I dunno, to be honest. But for me, reproductive changes are a consequence of age, not the other way around. No single factor feels like it in itself is a sensible definition.
But when people say, “You’re not young any more,” it’s usually a reference to the biological clock. At least, to me the science strongly suggests that the cutoff is age 35: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility
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+.
Yeah, but that’s why I don’t think fertility is a good measure of age in any way.
I don’t disagree with the numbers, I just don’t think they’re bound to any one aspect of the human body, nor do they need to be.