" It felt like losing my autonomy . "
Look, even though it’s a privilege to age and grow older, it’s also completely normal to vent about how it sometimes sucks. So when Reddit userAntique-Swordfish-14asked: “What was the first thing you noticed about your body that made you realize you are getting old?” I wanted to share their responses below:
1.“Crepey skin on my arms.”
2.“If I sit for more than 15 minutes, my joints rust. Then, when I get up, it is a series of cracks, pops, and serious pain for the first few minutes.”
— marcopoloman
3.“I distinctly remember the small text on a page suddenly wasn’t as crisp as I would have liked it to be. It dawned on me that the problem wasn’t the printed page — it was my eyesight. After a good five decades of clear, crisp vision, it turned out that I needed to wear reading glasses. I’m still not used to wearing them, and I miss being able to pick up anything and read with my naked eyes.”
4.“My ass deflated. I used to have glutes like bowling balls!”
— scotty813
" I used to have a round derriere and a savourless abdomen . Sometime in the retiring 10 yr , they trade places . "
— SonicPiano
5.“Having difficulty opening new jars of things likepickles. It felt like losing my autonomy.”
6.“Grey pubic hair. I was freaking out because I don’t have any on my head.”
— Expensive - Track4002
" Who has pubes on their head ? "
— Ozmorty
" Dickheads . "
— hunkyboy75
7.“Thinning hair. I went to make a ponytail, and I couldn’t get a hair tie to even stay in.”
8.“I’ve had both knees and hips replaced, and survived cancer in my 40s. But I rehabbed well, returned to weight lifting, and felt strong. In my early 60s, I was tying down something in the bed of my pickup, and somehow, I lost my balance and fell over the side of the truck, breaking my pelvis. It wasn’t the broken bones that bothered me; it was losing my balance. As I lay in the driveway my thought was, ‘Fuck, I’m officially old aged.'”
— BionicGimpster
9.“Hair growing from places it never used to. Getting asked if you want your eyebrows trimmed.”
10.“Recovery time.”
— lubbockin
" Evil , ai n’t it ? I had ameniscus debridement10 years ago while move through Army retirement . The first thing the sawbones pronounce upon my wakening was , ' See you in 10 years , Sergeant ! ' I have MRIs schedule for next workweek , and I ai n’t looking forwards to it . "
— Mike7676
11.“My tummy suddenly began telling me that it couldn’t handle chilidogs.”
12.“Getting to the point where makeup makes you look worse rather than better. I remember a few years ago, at age 46 or so, getting ready for a day out and putting on foundation in the daylight. The more I applied around the eyes to cover dark circles, the more it gathered in the creases and looked awful. Same with eyeshadow. I ended up scrubbing it all off and just going very lightly with it thereafter.”
— Livid - Cat4507
13.“Age spots!”
14.“When I hopped out of my truck bed a few years ago and my knees didn’t appreciate it.”
— enjoyingthesun1
15.“I got some weird new moles, and I went to the dermatologist to have her check them for cancer. After looking at them thoroughly, she said, ‘Age spots.’ So I looked at her and asked, ‘So, the diagnosis is I’m old?’ She laughed, but she also didn’t say no.”
16.“When I shrank two inches in height! I hate this — I liked being tall, plus now, my middle is even lumpier.”
— darknesswascheap
17.“Sixty-three male. Suddenly, my eyebrows have started going grey. They were black, but there are about nine grey ones now on either side.”
18.“Getting up to pee in the middle of the night. Then getting up to pee two separate times in the middle of the night. Then three times. You get the picture.”
— dafblooz
19.“My neck is trying to turkey.”
