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.
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.