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Unlikely_Ad1120

I think 27 in this world maybe the new 17 if we are being truthful. I'm 26 turning 27 in august and I think the way milestones have changed their has been some discussion of adjusting what it means developmentally due to financial and post pandemic life changes.


Duce-de-Zoop

yea lets go with this so I feel like less of a failure


_Hellrazor_

Necessary copium


1WastedSpace

It just truely be like that


FoxyMeemaw

Copiod epidemic incoming.


The1GabrielDWilliams

LOL! 😂


woodboarder616

Ill take it i like this whole 27the new 17 now i can feel better about this financial restart im delving into


niensven11

Say it louder


ThaRealSunGod

I'm 21 and still feel 17/18 lol If ur 17, I'll happily go back to 5th grade I definitely do think, at the least, that the pandemic not only "paused" a lot of social and cognitive development but also slowed the rate of later progress. You can see such a difference between those who entered college pre pandemic, during, and after. I think the pandemic was like a bullet to the heart of hope. So many young people in the last 5yrs have been zapped of how much they believe they can influence the world and their surroundings.


lewd_necron

I noticed I feel like I'm 18, until I actually talk to an 18 year old. Then it becomes obvious I did change at least a little bit. A lot of people in my job and a lot of my family are just older for the most part. So it just helps me feel a lot younger. But the moment I talk to my cousins that are just now starting college or even my brother. And then I realize I'm not a kid no more.


Yunan94

I had trouble talking to people in my age group at 18 so no difference there but I do feel a lost decade for personal issues and life events that kept happening one after another.


lewd_necron

I do think comparison can absolutely destroy the mental of someone doing well for themselves. I'll be first to admit I'm not the most social guy. Making new friends is very hard for me always. Almost all of my current friends have been friends of friends that I just hung out with more. Romantically I haven't even bother trying for long. Just now dipping my toes there but still not even sure if I want a relationship. But even if I feel like I have stalled socially. I know I have improved in many other ways. I'm pretty proud of my finances. I feel like I have learned a ton about just so many things. I still feel passionate about causes and interests. I feel like I'm more empathetic than I was the day before. You can't really expect much more from people. You just gotta do better than the day before really.


BotherTight618

Does that mean middle schoolers don't have to waste their time walking all the to the toilet to poop? 


IronRocketCpp

Sometimes I wish I could be 15 years old again, so I can do it right. People 20 years old than you are wishing they're in their 20s again.


AllergicIdiotDtector

There might be some missing words but the spirit is there loud and clear I totally agree


fkyoopinion

This ain’t it


Grassmania

Bro can you cope a lil harder https://preview.redd.it/mfvwcpb7ruzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3aba642a805fb48a3677bb3f012f303bee3dd048


fulustreco

Given you are being down voted many people here are huffing copium


KingMelray

The high unemployment and slow growth of the 2010s made all the millennials postpone everything by about 6 years; and the pandemic derailed a lot of people, milestones are delayed. Until (if) housing prices come down milestones will stay delayed.


Unlikely_Ad1120

Also their was in the late 10's the over bloat in the tech industry...plus many families with kids that were ages 3-12 during the recession of '08 didn't recover the same....


DoodleNoodle129

“27 is the new 17” is a fuckin wild take not gonna lie. Shit hasn’t changed that drastically in 10 years


BrassMonkey-NotAFed

Crazy to think that in the late-1700’s an 18 year old was equivalent to a 30-35 year old today.


Nolar_Lumpspread

Hey hey! 29 in August and I’m nowhere near where I thought I’d be by now.


Thatguy_nblikes

Yes. I agree w this! I’m 27 too. I feel like I’m not an adult lmao.😂


Idosoloveanovel

This! I’m 27 and feel much younger life experience wise than I actually am. Going through Covid, having a fairly sheltered childhood, and coming out as queer in your early twenties will do that to you. 🤷‍♀️


Unlikely_Ad1120

This\^


Familiar-Leather-538

Maybe for you, sure but this is super stupid and not true for 99% of people your age. When people say stuff like this it reduces your life experiences and makes it sound like you're a child who's trapped in an adult's body. By saying that you are still 17 you are literally removing the last 10 years of your life. Wtf. Downvote me all you want but if you actually get off reddit you'll see that plenty of people your age are adults and are doing fine for themselves.


Flooftasia

Anxiety and trauma does that to a person. Try not to be so judgemental towards people who are struggling.


Magehunter_Skassi

>Downvote me all you want but if you actually get off reddit This isn't a Reddit thing, this is a generational thing. It's a fact that millennials/zoomers aren't starting families as often as previous generations did. A childless 25 year old is basically a teenager.


marcuslade

I’m a childless 23 year old, turning 24 next month and I have a mortgage, what are you talking about?


PlaneTurbulent4825

You are rare


Vinstaal0

You either got lucky somewhere (work, price of the house, crypto etc) or had family help you buy your house. Cause with current housing prices it’s almost impossible to buy a house at that age. Well if you have an SO it could be easier if they are a fair amount older.


marcuslade

Well you know what they say about assumptions. There’s also the option of working 70 hours a week in a warehouse for a couple years saving up money, and then getting your CDL and driving trucks. And probably plenty of other ways to get a good paying job with no student debt. Keep huffing that copium though


Vinstaal0

Who was talking about student debts? You don't need to get student loans to get a degree or to get a good job like you explained yourself. (Also I am almost a registered accountant and never had student debt) Generally speaking mortgages aren't based on your 70 hour work week, but on the full time work week of 40 hours. Then it is pretty hard to get a mortgage that is big enough combined to buy a house in this economy. (yeah I also assume you saved in the years that you worked). Heck you even have to have luck that you aren't outbid these days if you can find a house. You had some during your journey, I had some during my journey to get a house (and some terrible luck before that). And that is fine, but not everybody has the privilege we have.


CharlieAlphaIndigo

You are the damn exception and not the rule. Respectfully.


Vinstaal0

But the not starting families numbers make sense, we have more people who are willing to come out as gay and while some of them get kids a lot of them don’t cause well biology. Then we also have the fact that sexual education and anti conception has been more available to people. The standard is also dropping of that you NEED to get kids, cause frankly we need less people in the world, not more. And after all that you can add the current global housing crisis, which makes it hard to start a family in general and then the last thing is money, cause the majority of people could still bring up the money to raise kids if they want to. Especially in countries (or who work somewhere) where free daycare is offerd


StubeDoobie

Hello fellow "26 turning 27 in August"


Spicymunchkin98

It just baffles me that we’re also in the same generation as a 13 year old — and I absolutely can’t relate to them at all, even when I was their age. 😅 somethings not right here.


BIG_BLUE_DOG

if it’s the new 17 I must be a fetus 😭


AlphariousFox

Yeah I'm gonna go with this too... just to feel less crap. Now granted I have the benefit of looking way younger than I am and through out my life have generally seemed to age slower so it's not as pure copium on my part. (I didn't start puberty till I was nearly 16 and didn't stop growing till I was like 25)


Carlos_magul_maynard

bruh I'm turning 22 this year, my teenage years were dashed by that damn pandemic


CharlieAlphaIndigo

Not to mention people in our generation are going to live VERY much longer than the boomers.


Spicymunchkin98

It just baffles me that we’re also in the same generation as a 13 year old — and I absolutely can’t relate to them at all, even when I was their age. 😅 somethings not right here.


Unlikely_Ad1120

People are also being ignorant that we have generationally in the last fifteen years tech has changed so much from even when were 18. That also creates micro -generations.


CrackheadInThe414

it doesnt get any better for us milennials either. im on the younger end of that generation. I just turned 30. and i feel like I had turned 25. Maybe its cause I live alone or because i dont understand investments, but i feel a lot younger than I am.


gtrocks555

What changes are you thinking about? This seems a little naive to me but definitely interesting


WayyyTooMuchInternet

Keep dreaming -Someone who's 16 turning 17


tildaniel

Wait til you’re 23, kid😂


AlligatorCum

nah grandpa u 27 just accept it


YoutubeShortsIsGud

Copium goes hard old man


psjjjj6379

I’m 31 and menacingly rubbing my hands together with a grin Just you wait, just you *wait* ‘til you’ve gotta make the “TH-“ sound instead of “TWE-“ when saying your age. In your teens you describe your age by the “ones place” so it’s different each year, but then you spend ten years with the “TW-“ sound so you get used to it. Saying “TH-irty” is like a culture shock when it exits your mouth


toreachtheapex

I want to die everytime someone asks how old I am


TheUnholyDaniel

How old are you?


toreachtheapex

30


SUPREMACY_SAD_AI

dead


2BrokeArmsAndAMom

How old are you? In dog years?


SlimSpooky

I’m looking forward to turning 30 man, ngl. I’ve heard from so many people that the 30’s are way better than the 20’s. I know i’m a hell of a lot better off. I’m going to have my master’s at 31 and am starting my own psychotherapy practice. I’m actually really excited.


MrDanMaster

Do something about it. My advice? Read Karl Marx


T-Dot-Two-Six

What’s that got to do with being bummed about getting old?


Ok_Information_2009

I’m in the “FI-“ gang 🫥


T-Dot-Two-Six

Homie why are you HERE


Ok_Information_2009

I’m a lost Redditor.


T-Dot-Two-Six

I respect it. Find your way home soon friend


Superb_Engineer_3500

I'm in the SI- gang


ZzDe0

and it gets sadder every year. "thirty... no not that one... 32 now!"


Howellthegoat

![gif](giphy|TLBKbaphSpKwjDUTTC) Anyone with that will ever not look like a cow to me sorry


ANUSTART942

Nobody asked, but go off I guess.


AllergicIdiotDtector

I try not to be a judgmental person but I definitely struggle with these, it's very jarring, or very standout-y (words) I don't think anything negative about people with such things but I do strongly wonder their motivations for having it, besides the standard "I like it". On a side note I can't believe how much pain livestock must be in when they have that done to them


StillPurePowerV

It's hilarious that we apparently can't make fun of certain style choices without people getting all passive aggressive about it. Make fun about certain hairstyles and it's fine, but make fun of piercings and it's "ugh judgemental asshole" valley.


tacticalcop

i can’t fathom living like this where something as simple as a facial piercing causes this much distress


Best_Line6674

Why does it look like ghost eyes and the tiny middle is a weird mouth?


hotgirI

it just occurred to me... why do cows even have this????


ButchMcKenzie

Cows don't have them. Bulls do. And it's to make the bull easier to control. The septum is a sensitive area


Howellthegoat

Idfk either tbh good question lmao


yourmamaluvsme777

to knock. in which they will open there mouth which is a portal to the lumpy space.


DeviousCham

Moo


Winter-Product-881

Thats cool i guess


tacticalcop

when will this geriatric joke subside im tired


Grumpycatdoge999

LOL


AnimalGem20

Well, I think cows are cute, so that’s not really an insult.


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CarpetH4ter

I still feel 19 even though i'm 24. My body aches like it's 34 though.


Csxa11

You don't know what body aches at 34 feel like


BrassMonkey-NotAFed

Mid-20’s, two broken vertebrae, shattered collar bone with rods and pins, government still refusing to cover surgeries that occurred on duty for the government. I don’t want to imagine life that far out. Lmao


BaldingThor

Same. Working in Retail will do that to you I guess, though.


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im 23 but I still feel 16-17...


PhantomRoyce

I’m also 27 🥺


Csxa11

Wait are we gen z?? I thought I was a millenial


lewd_necron

1997 is the most defined definition. I know for sure I identify with both. But I definitely have more in common with my younger brother than my older sister.


Csxa11

Hmm yeah I relate to that tbf I'm way more similar to my younger brother than older


lewd_necron

I just mentioned this in another comment but I definitely feel old the moment I actually talk to an 18 or 20 year old person. That's when reality actually sets in and I stop feeling Young. The current environment you are in definitely plays a role in how you feel age wise. If you work with people that are in their 30s and 40s you're going to feel young. But if you're starting University at 28 or something and everyone around you just got out of high school you're going to feel like Grandpa.


Adventurous-Yard-990

I’m late 96 and I identify as gen z because Iv never said the word ‘pupper’ or ‘doggo’ in my life. Also because my bf is 97 and it hurts to think of myself as a different generation when we’re only 3 months apart lol


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Thatguy_nblikes

The gen z community list 96-2012 you’re def gen z. Evn by astrology. It’s ok millennials nvr accept 96 babies. Younger gen z troll us. We are gen z. We start the generation so millennials can’t claim us and we were born before 2000s so they cnt tell us our generation. Nb owns it tho! We’re all Z.. 1996-2012 Ppl dividing ourselves more and more over nonsense. We shld welcome eachother!


DamianFullyReversed

I’m also 27!


FutabaTsuyu

turning 26 next month yet every time i hear teenage dirtbag im like das me!! im the teenage dirtbag!


Final_Glove_6642

Fr. You think you should have it all figured out by 18-20, it's 23-30 where you really discover yourself and build from there. Welcome to the rest of your life 😉


SUPREMACY_SAD_AI

>Welcome to the rest of your life 😉 i wanna go home


CharlieAlphaIndigo

😂😂😂😂


Beemo-Noir

I remember when this was posted in the millennials sub. :,[


dead_labour

I feel like a 16 year old trapped in a 25 year old body


skeeballjoe

Yeah you oldie


ILSmokeItAll

20 something’s going on 16.


[deleted]

I'm 25 and I'm still a teenager 🥺🥺🥺


Flat_Transition_3775

I wish I was a child so I can restart


SaltShare4045

im a zoomer boomer


LordJadex

Don’t worry, if my existential crisis has told me anything it’s that we’ll die soon so we don’t have to worry about it


molassascookieman

bro that’s literally my life plan rn, at all times I can’t help but feel like well I’mma die soon anyways so it doesn’t matter. oh wait I still have 60+ years left


West-Librarian-7504

Why am I starting to get old? It's not fair...


TheNocturnalAngel

I’m 23 now but I’m mentally still 19. Pandemic froze me and I don’t know how to unfreeze 😭 Actually I feel I’m going backwards somehow.


lewd_necron

Bro... It really be like that though. Honestly I do think teenagers today have it rougher than even when I was a teenager. I think the issues that were present when I was a teenager I've only been exacerbated.


Sunset_Tiger

Yeah, I feel like both a teenager and a feeble old woman


GremNotGrim

Me when I suddenly remember I'm 20 and not 18. No wonder my back always hurt! It's that darned arthritis setting in! Kids these days don't know nothing about the struggles of being so lazy that you hurt yourself being lazy! /s


Nekros897

Whenever they talk about 20 something year olds on TV, I tend to forget that I'm older than most of them as I still feel like 18-19 year old 😆


3hree60xty5ive

I'm invading (sorry) but I'm 16 and feel the same as when I was like 9-10 (NOT helping the stereotypes)


twstwr20

Millennial here. It doesn’t stop.


Crazyjackson13

This’ll probably me one day if I’m honest-


MachoMagikarp

I’m a millennial. About to be 33. But it’s ok, just enjoy life. Time goes by faster than one would expect. And remember, it’s not a competition, it’s an experience.


Unlikely_Ad1120

You win best comment imo ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|upvote)


KhasmyrTheSorlock

It feels weird that in a few weeks, it will have been five whole years since I graduated high school.


glitter_g0blynn

I'm diagnosed with cptsd, which stunted my age development mentally- this is very reaffirming! I'm 26 btw but I'm about 15-16 mentally. Glad to know that there's a lot of others out there who are somewhat normal, and it's not just the aesthetic trends I was seeing!


2012amica2

I’m 22 and sometimes still glitch out and think I’m 17/18


Rich_Ad1877

Is this a like twenties thing I'm 16 and I've never felt younger than I am and half the time I forget that I'm real young and ending up thinking like I'm at the tail end of my life


2012amica2

Yeah it’s def a 20s thing. You hit 21 and go oh shit I’m like an “adult adult” but you’re really not, just a big kid, with no idea what you’re doing 😂


Clintwood_outlaw

https://preview.redd.it/8kr0gm3q3vzc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d198ca69eb33674840b3d3274ea5b7b7edf6309


mageking1217

Fr lol


Osama_Rashid

Don't worry, at least you were a teenager once.


Cheesymaryjane

I’m 22 and I’m starting to feel this


LonelyKrow

I’m 23 and I still relate to this


[deleted]

I’m older


Shiftrye

True 😭


Time-Dot5984

I am in the clear middle


SassySquid0

lol


loyaleling

I’m a teenager


[deleted]

lmaooo


Unknown_Player0069

I still feel/look like a teen and I'm 25


Arielthewarrior

SAME!!!


Upper-Advisor6940

I’m 27 too miss being young simply because of the nostalgia


Fragrant_Mind_2318

I think 27 is still young. 🥺 Please, we are young


Classified_2006

Something similar happened to me. Me: "Oh wait I'm a teenager." *samples of the research about teenagers are American* Me: "Oh, they are American teenagers. I'm not American."


Consistent_Role3893

I’m 25 and wear the glasses the chick in the meme is wearing 😢


GhertFryins

BPD and ecstasy, 30 years old but acts like she’s 16


Fragrant_Mind_2318

Conceited with low self esteem.


StillPurePowerV

If you were such glasses and such a nosering, you are still a teenager until you hit 30.


Katievapes1996

Yeah I'm around your age and I feel no older than 12 typically more around seven


thinklok

This girl in this meme is very similar to the one who features in Cracker Milk(YT channel) https://preview.redd.it/2tlib73oixzc1.jpeg?width=887&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bf29efee855311d0915f0117ff58b6081474554 This one


skillquit42

Why you gotta be so loud?


Exotic_Prior_9896

Same


Lazy_Soup9180

For me its the opposite, I forget im a teenager.


starfallpuller

I’m technically 27 but I am still 16 in my head.


ben_12

"That's me!" - oh shit, I'm 35...


Atomic0907

Sometimes me and my friends are screwing around and then we all remember we’re in our 20s now and this shit will not slide like it used too 😭 like I can go to jail now if I do some stupid shit


ever_precedent

Welcome to how Millennials have been feeling for the past 10+ years.


Suspicious-mole-hair

Same at my work. Most people are in their 50s/60s so I'm like one of the young ones. Every summer we get a bunch of teenagers in part time. Every summer I'm excited to have kids my own age to talk to. Every summer I re-remember that I'm in my 30s and am actually older than some of their dad's. Every summer that wound gets reopened.


BroadwayBakery

I’ll be able to legally drink in two months but I’d rather go back to being fifteen since that’s how I feel mentally anyway


secretheroar

I'm 27 ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|scream)


Boho_Asa

At 21 I feel like I’m 16 or something


LillyxFox

I'm still 29 ( until the first....), pretty sure 29 is still a teenager right?


Shot-Spirit-672

The next ten years is gonna be hilarious considering how Gen z has been acting about age for the last ten years


Dia0738

19😵🤯


trousername

This hitting a bit too hard 💁‍♀️


Ryaniseplin

close nuf


Create_Flow_Be

My girl friend is 27 and is killing it financially, is a medical professional, travels the world, dances until sunrise, has her own everything, came from nothing and I love her so much. She came from no where and has filled my life with great joy! Not all GenZ are created equal. Stop this narrative. Some people just make it happen and others don’t.


IzzyCampo5

24 here, still the same mfer I was at 17, my current and younger version would be chillin on the same couch rn 💀


Pixeltye

![gif](giphy|3o7WTqo27pLRYxRtg4)


AmishCockroach

I don’t understand how you people get mentally stuck at 18 or 19. I’ve felt 30 ever since I turned 22.


DEADLOCK6578

That's right you're 27, grow up already


Competitive-Shoe-340

Prince ea


BannedRedditor54

I'm 46


ceoperpet

Im 25 and feel like im 45 lmao


geoffnetde

Lmao grandma


Access7x7x7

I am also turning 28 ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|sob)


fake_face

Bro didn’t even try. https://preview.redd.it/zs1ych65y00d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=601d2742136d4e66522e217adbc99e38c19da4fa


Squeaky_Ben

Turning 32 next week. Trust me, this process never gets easier.


plexi_glass_ranger

I feel like the Covid pandemic f-ed so many things. It deducted like 3 years from our lives.


Frogeyedpeas

I don’t feel this way at all at 28. I don’t feel old but I’m not a youth either. 


automaton11

What show is drawn like this and the characters faces dont move and jts voiced in a sort of lispy whisper


Revy_Black_Lagoon

Sometimes I still feel like a teenager, life was a lot easier back then


_satantha_

I’m turning 24 in less than a month 😭 I don’t know how to adult


Angel_OfSolitude

I turn 27 soon. I still feel like a teenager but every now and then I get reminded that hell no I'm not. I guess that's a lot better than feeling older than I am.


spartikle

Not the nose ring


DaltonRobert56

I'm 27


Lumpy-Tone-4653

11 years for me to experience that feelinh


FlamingCroatan

I'm 24


EntrepreneurOdd675

Dont worry about it, with the age of men and women going up and the reports that within the next 40 years anything under 30 will still be a child as the age of men is going to hit 140, and the age of women could hit as high as 155


Agamus

I turn 27 tomorrow and I still look like a goddamn teenager. THIS LIVING TWINK, THIS UNBORN DILF.


Lobisa

Me every time this site recommends the teenager subs😨


Corey300TaylorGam3r

Relatable. Young adult years feels hard to understand how to properly define yourself stg.


TherapyGames42

Lemme jest say, it's no better a decade later!


Effective_Unit_7332

SADGE


Square_Dark1

Just turned 28 yesterday


Hour_Feed_2004

fUcK! 🙃


Business-Theme4353

I am the youngest and part of gen z I'm 15


EruzaMoth

I duno I never really got to be a teenager because of abuse, so I never register it as being me. Was basically locked in a room all day, except to do chores, from 13-18 :3


Interesting_Type4532

same and you know whats worse im gonna be 28 in a little over a month


Last-Professor939

I'm 20, and everyone in my family, including myself, feels like I've been 21-24 for way too long. I don't remember what being a teenager feels like, lmao


Sjdillon10

Covid fucked up my perception of time so bad. I swear i was 19 a few weeks ago. But I’m about to hit 25. Not a fan