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My coworker who is 50 refers to me, her and the other woman as middle aged gang. I'm 33, she's 50 and my other coworker is 45. She calls us "middle aged gang"
I don't really feel like I'm in the same age group as a 50 year old 🤷♀️
Middle-aged starts at about 45 years old, 40 is still a spring chicken, that's what I like to think, when me looking 29 years I like to think 39 is young, forever young as you seem, you grow grey hair, get hair growing on your cheeks, an ugly black hair, grow frown lines, and crow's feet as you smile and you think you're still not aging, you're in denial of your age, except of course if you faced the facts of life, that we all age, if you were a woman from 33 in reality you're no spring chicken, but I suppose women don't mind being compared to a spring chicken which is cooked as a young chook.
I'm 34 and I get hit on by people who are too old for me. They're 50 plus usually. THATS middle aged, not the 30s. Lol
She’s probably just jealous of your youth and trying to make you insecure. Thirty three is certainly not middle aged.
I’m 4 years behind you. So no. It’s impossible for me to be anywhere near middle aged. Lol
I'll stick with one country to simplify things and go with the current average human lifespan in the US which is 79.05 years. If we were to divide the stages of life into three even portions (early, middle, and late), middle age actually begins at a mere 26.35 years old and you're in the late game by only 52.7 years old.
But this isn't how we culturally think about it. We tend to treat childhood and development as a separate thing altogether, like a tutorial for life, the caterpillar stage of a butterfly. While you can vote in the US at 18 and are classified as an adult in most legal situations, you don't gain _all_ adult privileges until 25. You can't run for president until 35 but I'm excluding such extreme things. The highest limit the average person might encounter is 25 but most are set to 21. I'll use 21, the age you can drink at, as the cutoff for the tutorial.
This leaves 58.05 years of life to divide by three separately after 21. That gives us the following.
Development: Begins at 0 years old.
Early adult life: Begins at 21 years old.
Middle adult life: Begins at 40.35 years old.
Late adult life: Begins at 59.7 years old.
I think this is pretty close to the general perception.
From 33 to 43 you're neither young nor middle-aged, also like that from 30, you're just a regular adult, if you were middle-aged you'd be from 43 to 60, you're not even close, yet you're not the young adult you were in your twenties.
Tell her she’s past middle aged and looks terrible for her age. Is her name Kathy?
I think we went through this about a year ago.
Conclusion: middle and old age depends on your current age. What ever age bracket you consider yourself in, the next bracket continually gets pushed back by about 10 years.
If you ask a teenager 30+ is definitely middle age because 40+ is old age.
If you ask a 40 yo they barely accept they are middle age but old age has been pushed back to 55+.
Ask a 60+ they are still middle age.
A lot depends on your maturity and life events. I know 30+ that I would refer to as a child. Yet there are some that are very mature, had children early in life (like late teens), have a career outlook, and life experiences have caused them to act more like 40+.
At 33 you are to old to be considered youth, too old to be making childish mistakes, old enough you should be thinking of life direction, and if you are female you are in the middle of your child producing years, depending on who you ask you could be in the later child bearing years.
So, you make the call, what do you consider young, old, and middle ages?