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But am I wrong? I am joking, but good jokes have an element of truth...

• omnicognate 11mo ago
  Depends what you mean by "old". If you mean elderly then obviously you're not. If you mean "past it" then it might reassure you to know the average expecting mother is in her 30s now (in the UK). Even if you just mean "grown up", recent research [1] on brain development identifies adolescence as typically extending into the early thirties, with (brain) adulthood running from there to the mid sixties before even then only entering the "early aging" stage. For my part, I'm a lot older than you and don't consider myself old. Indeed, I think prematurely thinking of yourself as old can be a pretty bad mistake, health-wise. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8
  • godelski 11mo ago
    FWIW I doubt I'd consider you old were I to know your actual age. I still think I'm quite young
    • AceJohnny2 11mo ago
      "inside every old person there is a young one wondering what happened."
• AceJohnny2 11mo ago
  It'd be interesting the know the median age of HN commenters. I guess the median age of YCombinator cohorts is <30 ?
• xupybd 11mo ago
  I assume you're on the younger end
  • godelski 11mo ago
    No need to assume, I already told everyone my age
    • xxs 11mo ago
      The assumption implies the median of the people's age who frequent HN is higher.