I was born in 1989 and the math is HARD some days.
'84 here. For years now I just round myself up or down to the nearest 5 and call it a day lol
For like 3 years I legit thought I was older than I am because I did the math wrong on the fly once and never bothered to recheck it..
Your system is easier.
Hello fellow 40yo coming next year
Hey, are ya'll me?
‘87 here, kinda the same at this point lol
its just 11 + the current year.
I am 1988 so i am 12 + the current year.
Didn't think of it like that until your post but it is pretty easy.
You're 2035 years old? Wild..
I'm an ancient red dragon
Bad ass. Can you fly me to my appointment later?
lol sure, I think I am chaotic evil though so I may just eat you.
I'll take the chance.
depends if you've had your birthday that year
On the other hand, it makes it easier for the people who have to check your ID when buying alcohol. Any birth year that begins with 19 is automatically old enough.
Oh trust me, my face is evidence enough alone.
It's so flattering when I get carded.
For real
Do you guys not remember how old you are year to year? Are you frequently calculating your age from your birth year instead of just adding 1 to it on your birthday?
I always thought it was nuts that people don't remember, then I turned 30 and got married to someone who has a birthday less than a year before mine. Now I have two ages to remember (that are sometimes the same) and it takes a second for me to remember which is me when asked.
It's not about your age difference. It's just hitting 30. My wife is 5 years younger than me and I couldn't tell you how old either of us are
a birthday less than a year before mine
This took me far too long to understand
Yes! Preach! This is me too. And in addition to being poor at maths I'm also not articulate so I just end up looking goofy when trying to figure out which age is me.
I frequently forget, because I rarely need my age in my daily life.
Bra I don't know where I am let let alone how old I am
Explains why your app is garbage.
That's exactly when I started having trouble remembering. 30 was a milestone, but now I have to think for a few seconds before answering.
I find that the older I get, the less I discuss or think about my age throughout the year so it gets more difficult to remember. Also, my birthday is in January so it's over pretty quickly and I don't tend to think about it again while I'm busy thinking about my 4 kids birthdays that are coming up, instead!
I’m guessing you are younger than 40.
Hell I'm late 20s and it's felt like this for a couple years now
No, I'm mid-40's, but I usually don't forget my age. LOL. Although a couple of months ago someone asked how old I am and I said I was 10 years younger than I actually am. I didn't realize what I had done until the next day.
Got to tell you, friend... birthdays don't matter that much after you're a few decades down the road. Just another day closer to death, but maybe you get to go out to a nice restaurant.
Does anybody need to calculate their age? It's not a hard thing to remember :|
Sometimes I just forget ok? I mean it's changing every year
Also I think it matters less and less in your life. As a child/teenager you got asked for your age all the time
It changes all the time (once per year) if you finally managed to remember it, it changes again.
As someone who is well out of the range where people need to ask for ID when I want something, I don't concern myself with my age and frequently forget since nobody asks.
On official forms, they want to know my date of birth, not my age. Everyone I know socially, doesn't care or already knows an approximation of it, thus I'm never asked. All my work colleagues are interested in is getting the job done, not how many years I've been in the workforce/how many years till I get to retirement age/whatever.
I don't think about my age for more than a few hours a year at most. I don't even celebrate my birthday. So the years come and go, and I think about how old I am so little that I often don't even know how old I am.
You're not wrong that it's not hard to remember, but when you think about it as little as I do, you tend to lose track.... So when someone asks me how old I am, I often don't reply because I'm too busy doing math in my head to try to figure it out, quietly hoping they'll move on from the question and I won't have to answer it.
The hard part is which one will you remember. (I already had 43 different ages.)
I do. I know my age roughly of course, but I very very rarely get asked how old I am, so I forget the extact number.
Not too long ago, I was filling out a medical form and I had to ask my wife how old I was. She had to think about it. We're the same age.
At some point, I've been asked less and less my age, so I just forget about it heh
You'll get people ridiculing you for not remembering your own age but believe you me, you're not alone in the struggle. My husband and I started dating in 2000 so that's awfully convenient.
My wife and I started dating in 2000 as well. Got married in 2001. The math is in my favor for remembering how long we've been together and our wedding anniversary.
Now our ages are a bit harder. '77 and '79.
My younger son has it easy. Born in 2010.
I never had a problem when I was younger, but as I get older (I'm not even that old) it gets harder. Not REALLY hard or anything, but having to pause to remember how old I am sometimes makes me feel a bit slow.
We got married in 2000 and our daughter was born in 2010. Very easy to remember.
It's great. When people ask me how old I am I just ask them which year is this and repeat the last two digits.
how do you not know how old you are?
I think it's fairly common that people do some math in their head, specially when they get older than 30. Because it doesn't matter really, you never need to tell anyone how old you are anymore. Well unless you use dating apps I guess, or date people... Nobody else asks your age.
specially when they get older than 30
I've been doing the math since I turned 20
It's been a hot minute since I've been on one of those apps but do they not just ask for your birthday and simply calculate your age...? Surely dating apps don't require you to update your age manually every year right...
I guess if you're not using an app then sure but you could just as well tell your birth year and if it's close enough it's probably fine. 🤷
Yeah you are right about the apps probably. I haven't ever used them but of course they have that built in. :)
I was lucky and was born in 1990. I've always appreciated that all you have to do to figure out my age is add 10 to the year. Like, when it's 2054, I know I'll be 64.
Only 90 babies will get this
Unless you're born in the middle of the year, in which case it's constant "off by 1" errors
The entitlement of the younglins these days. I swear, they are getting soft. I have to take the current year, and add twenty, but the lazy ass youth just have to subtract their birth year from the current year. Maths will suffer because they don't have to do addition. Pure insanity and liberal malarkey.
Oh yeah, /s
There's still the part of the year before the birthday and the part of the year after the birthday.
I was born in January 2000. For a very short period of time I don't know how old I am or what year it is, but then the rest of the year is pretty easy after that.
I'm from December 2000, so I need to make the current year -1 to be exact.
The hardest is my parents' age.
1965 to 2000 -> 35
2000 to 2023 -> 23
35 + 23 = brain leaking
I usually add 50 to their birth year and add/subtract the remainder from that date. So for 1965 I'd say they were 50 in 2015, so that makes them 58 in 2023. Makes the mental math easier for me.
But I never even realized that was how I did it until I saw your version written out and was like "huh, that's really confusing"
But you still have to know what year it is.
Why do people even calculate this? It's an integer you only have to increment once a year. Just remember your age.
I hardly remember what I was doing 5 seconds ago. Sure, that's more complicated than a number, and I think about my age rather frequently so remembering it is rather easy, but storing anything for a year and remembering it when I haven't thought about it for a while is difficult.
as i get older i find myself wondering sometimes if im still my age or the next one already
Also for you to calculate your age you have to remember your birthday, thats like 3 integers, vs. just 1 for your age!
Just Google "Taylor Swift age" like the rest of us creeps.
I hardly know who that is, which feels great to be honest.
I'm tired of celebs.
Pretending you're blind and deaf to popular culture (to the extent where you claim to have never heard of one of the best-selling artists of all time) is an order of magnitude more cringe and obnoxious than people who obsess over celebrities.
I'm not pretending, I'm just old. :) Not interested in any of that. You probably realize that there is an age when you just stop caring about all that shit. If not, you will see for yourself later in life.
I understand that people are scared of "new" math, but for a 1989 birthday just take the last too digits of the current year, add ten, then add one if you've already had a birthday this year, e.g. 23+10+1=34. Almost the same math I used to count change when I worked retail.
Hello fellow Wendigo! Feel less lonely now?
for a 1989 birthday just take the last too digits of the current year, add ten, then add one if you’ve already had a birthday this year, e.g. 23+10+1=34.
... you lost my brain at 1989.
Whoa, whoa, slow down, egghead.
Math like that is really simple if you take it in easy chunks.
For example, to calc your age, just take the years from birthday to 2000 (11) and add it to the years since 2000 (23). 11 + 23 = 34.
Best part is the first calc never changes - so if you remember thst number it's just like having a 2000 birthday. Just add 11.
But I'm only 33! So part of the challenge is also remembering what day it is today lol
I feel like you just typed out a learning disability somehow.
Today year - 2000 + 11 is that hard?
Dude, I’m lucky if I remember what “today year” even is, much less the math!
Time got weird after 2020…
I mean, you're right, but birth month counts too...I don't know about OP but that always throws me off as my bday isn't until Dec.
It's not that you can't figure it out, it's just being embarrassed when you're wrong.
Math don't check out.
I'm 33, your equation equals 34.
Born in 99. Can confirm I just take the year and say I was that age for most of it
Jan 2000 here :)
Dang thats the money.
Indeed, I was supposed to born on the 31st Dec 1999 but didn't feel like it I guess :)
I thought I had it easy. Born in 1990. 2022? I'm 32. 2023? I'm 33.
But now I am married. Dec 2019. So it's always hard to calculate how many years.
And to add to it. My daughter is born Nov 2021.
Good luck to anyone that asks me how old she is. You gotta wait until I count on all my fingers.
I have a daughter who is 6 and a son who is 4. So when people ask what year they are born I need to try and do reverse math.
Born in 80’
So in year 2023>20+23= I’m 43
I was born in 79 and am also 43. Math is hard.
The math checks out.
What about before your birthday, when you have to subtract one? That's the part I always have to think about
same for people born in 2010
1970 gang unite!
My aunt and uncle got married new years day of 2000. Very easy to remember.
I forgot how old I was a couple months ago and had to pull up an online age calculator cuz I could not make it make sense. Yes, I'm stupid.
You'd be surprised...
Yeah it's hard to calculate when reality sets in. There's also a bit of reluctance from me as a lot of expectations follow me when I reveal my age even when I don't look like how old I am. It's like suddenly you feel that you are not so welcome in some conversations any more or people keep you out of their circles because they presume that you don't fit in.
I've gotten way past that and while realising that my body isn't what it was physically 20 years ago, I'm treating age as just a number and if one has a problem with that, it's really their problem not mine 🙂
And by the way, I was born in 1971.
Y'all forget how old you are? Can't imagine ever having to calculate my current age.
Wait until you get older. :)
Can confirm, am born in 2000.
2000 gang
They do have to calculate it, it's just the calculation is a bit easier for them.
They could also process the year as a string and drop the first two characters.
Only if you were born on January 1, otherwise you have to do a simple +-1 math
But we’re not really calculating anything. I was 12 in 2012 and 8 in 2008. That’s much less a calculation and more so just observing numbers.
You're not living up to your username with an effort like that!
My username is pure sarcasm unfortunately
Unless you're born in the middle of the year, in which case it's constant "off by 1" errors
Array indexing still biting us in 2022
This makes me feel better about having to ask my husband how old i am.
I just have to add 20 on to get mine, so not too bad.
One of us. One of us.
Its not so bad for me, i was born in 96 so i just have to add 4
I realized it was all over once I began forgetting how old I am.
Feb 2000 here, I agree 👍
I mean if youre within a couple years of it you would be like current year +5 or whatever
Try 77 sometime. The only reason I knew my mom's age is she was born in 57. Occasionally I'd even have to work the other way to figure out how old I was!
My kids were exactly 18 months apart, same day, one in 1999 and one in 2001. Math made (mostly) easy, baby.
I was just telling a friend that being born on a decade makes it easy for me to keep track, whereas I've heard my brother ask his wife to confirm his age.
If you're born in '89 just add 11 to the current year and you have your age (34). This works for any year you're born.
Born in ''83? Just add 17 to the current year. You have your age (40)
tbf, it may not be hard to calculate, but it is hard to admit I'm almost halfway my thirties...
Also born in 89, I can say I was still born in the Soviet Union.
It changes once a year, how stupid are some people that this is an issue?
Wait till you get a little older and start having a hard time remembering how old you are.
All becomes a blur at some point
And what year it is!
If you think about your age every day, you are the stupid one around here. Or maybe you are just 13 and it's easy because you eagerly await the next year so you can be treated a little bit more like an adult so you count the days.
My exact age is almost never relevant in my day-to-day life, I pretty much only get reminded of it on my actual birthday and don’t think much about it for the rest of the year. So if somebody asks for my age, usually I’ll be off by a year or two and my wife will need to correct me, because for some reason she remembers.
Damn. You sure told us. May this be your shining achievement of the day ✨
'84 here. For years now I just round myself up or down to the nearest 5 and call it a day lol
For like 3 years I legit thought I was older than I am because I did the math wrong on the fly once and never bothered to recheck it..
Your system is easier.
Hello fellow 40yo coming next year
Hey, are ya'll me?
‘87 here, kinda the same at this point lol
its just 11 + the current year.
I am 1988 so i am 12 + the current year.
Didn't think of it like that until your post but it is pretty easy.
You're 2035 years old? Wild..
I'm an ancient red dragon
Bad ass. Can you fly me to my appointment later?
lol sure, I think I am chaotic evil though so I may just eat you.
I'll take the chance.
depends if you've had your birthday that year
On the other hand, it makes it easier for the people who have to check your ID when buying alcohol. Any birth year that begins with 19 is automatically old enough.
Oh trust me, my face is evidence enough alone.
It's so flattering when I get carded.
For real
Do you guys not remember how old you are year to year? Are you frequently calculating your age from your birth year instead of just adding 1 to it on your birthday?
I always thought it was nuts that people don't remember, then I turned 30 and got married to someone who has a birthday less than a year before mine. Now I have two ages to remember (that are sometimes the same) and it takes a second for me to remember which is me when asked.
It's not about your age difference. It's just hitting 30. My wife is 5 years younger than me and I couldn't tell you how old either of us are
This took me far too long to understand
Yes! Preach! This is me too. And in addition to being poor at maths I'm also not articulate so I just end up looking goofy when trying to figure out which age is me.
I frequently forget, because I rarely need my age in my daily life.
Bra I don't know where I am let let alone how old I am
Explains why your app is garbage.
That's exactly when I started having trouble remembering. 30 was a milestone, but now I have to think for a few seconds before answering.
I find that the older I get, the less I discuss or think about my age throughout the year so it gets more difficult to remember. Also, my birthday is in January so it's over pretty quickly and I don't tend to think about it again while I'm busy thinking about my 4 kids birthdays that are coming up, instead!
I’m guessing you are younger than 40.
Hell I'm late 20s and it's felt like this for a couple years now
No, I'm mid-40's, but I usually don't forget my age. LOL. Although a couple of months ago someone asked how old I am and I said I was 10 years younger than I actually am. I didn't realize what I had done until the next day.
Got to tell you, friend... birthdays don't matter that much after you're a few decades down the road. Just another day closer to death, but maybe you get to go out to a nice restaurant.
Does anybody need to calculate their age? It's not a hard thing to remember :|
Sometimes I just forget ok? I mean it's changing every year
Also I think it matters less and less in your life. As a child/teenager you got asked for your age all the time
It changes all the time (once per year) if you finally managed to remember it, it changes again.
As someone who is well out of the range where people need to ask for ID when I want something, I don't concern myself with my age and frequently forget since nobody asks.
On official forms, they want to know my date of birth, not my age. Everyone I know socially, doesn't care or already knows an approximation of it, thus I'm never asked. All my work colleagues are interested in is getting the job done, not how many years I've been in the workforce/how many years till I get to retirement age/whatever.
I don't think about my age for more than a few hours a year at most. I don't even celebrate my birthday. So the years come and go, and I think about how old I am so little that I often don't even know how old I am.
You're not wrong that it's not hard to remember, but when you think about it as little as I do, you tend to lose track.... So when someone asks me how old I am, I often don't reply because I'm too busy doing math in my head to try to figure it out, quietly hoping they'll move on from the question and I won't have to answer it.
The hard part is which one will you remember. (I already had 43 different ages.)
I do. I know my age roughly of course, but I very very rarely get asked how old I am, so I forget the extact number.
Not too long ago, I was filling out a medical form and I had to ask my wife how old I was. She had to think about it. We're the same age.
At some point, I've been asked less and less my age, so I just forget about it heh
You'll get people ridiculing you for not remembering your own age but believe you me, you're not alone in the struggle. My husband and I started dating in 2000 so that's awfully convenient.
My wife and I started dating in 2000 as well. Got married in 2001. The math is in my favor for remembering how long we've been together and our wedding anniversary.
Now our ages are a bit harder. '77 and '79.
My younger son has it easy. Born in 2010.
I never had a problem when I was younger, but as I get older (I'm not even that old) it gets harder. Not REALLY hard or anything, but having to pause to remember how old I am sometimes makes me feel a bit slow.
We got married in 2000 and our daughter was born in 2010. Very easy to remember.
It's great. When people ask me how old I am I just ask them which year is this and repeat the last two digits.
how do you not know how old you are?
I think it's fairly common that people do some math in their head, specially when they get older than 30. Because it doesn't matter really, you never need to tell anyone how old you are anymore. Well unless you use dating apps I guess, or date people... Nobody else asks your age.
I've been doing the math since I turned 20
It's been a hot minute since I've been on one of those apps but do they not just ask for your birthday and simply calculate your age...? Surely dating apps don't require you to update your age manually every year right...
I guess if you're not using an app then sure but you could just as well tell your birth year and if it's close enough it's probably fine. 🤷
Yeah you are right about the apps probably. I haven't ever used them but of course they have that built in. :)
I was lucky and was born in 1990. I've always appreciated that all you have to do to figure out my age is add 10 to the year. Like, when it's 2054, I know I'll be 64.
Only 90 babies will get this
Unless you're born in the middle of the year, in which case it's constant "off by 1" errors
The entitlement of the younglins these days. I swear, they are getting soft. I have to take the current year, and add twenty, but the lazy ass youth just have to subtract their birth year from the current year. Maths will suffer because they don't have to do addition. Pure insanity and liberal malarkey.
Oh yeah, /s
There's still the part of the year before the birthday and the part of the year after the birthday.
I was born in January 2000. For a very short period of time I don't know how old I am or what year it is, but then the rest of the year is pretty easy after that.
I'm from December 2000, so I need to make the current year -1 to be exact.
The hardest is my parents' age.
I usually add 50 to their birth year and add/subtract the remainder from that date. So for 1965 I'd say they were 50 in 2015, so that makes them 58 in 2023. Makes the mental math easier for me.
But I never even realized that was how I did it until I saw your version written out and was like "huh, that's really confusing"
But you still have to know what year it is.
Why do people even calculate this? It's an integer you only have to increment once a year. Just remember your age.
I hardly remember what I was doing 5 seconds ago. Sure, that's more complicated than a number, and I think about my age rather frequently so remembering it is rather easy, but storing anything for a year and remembering it when I haven't thought about it for a while is difficult.
as i get older i find myself wondering sometimes if im still my age or the next one already
Also for you to calculate your age you have to remember your birthday, thats like 3 integers, vs. just 1 for your age!
Just Google "Taylor Swift age" like the rest of us creeps.
I hardly know who that is, which feels great to be honest.
I'm tired of celebs.
Pretending you're blind and deaf to popular culture (to the extent where you claim to have never heard of one of the best-selling artists of all time) is an order of magnitude more cringe and obnoxious than people who obsess over celebrities.
I'm not pretending, I'm just old. :) Not interested in any of that. You probably realize that there is an age when you just stop caring about all that shit. If not, you will see for yourself later in life.
I understand that people are scared of "new" math, but for a 1989 birthday just take the last too digits of the current year, add ten, then add one if you've already had a birthday this year, e.g. 23+10+1=34. Almost the same math I used to count change when I worked retail.
Hello fellow Wendigo! Feel less lonely now?
... you lost my brain at 1989.
Whoa, whoa, slow down, egghead.
Math like that is really simple if you take it in easy chunks.
For example, to calc your age, just take the years from birthday to 2000 (11) and add it to the years since 2000 (23). 11 + 23 = 34.
Best part is the first calc never changes - so if you remember thst number it's just like having a 2000 birthday. Just add 11.
But I'm only 33! So part of the challenge is also remembering what day it is today lol
Trying to do this mentally:
33 - 1 = 32 Ha! Easy!... Wait.
33 + 1 = 34 Shit. Double+1. Ok, I thought the -1 at the end would undo the +1 at the beginning. But, I guess the 2000-1990 messed me up.
Maybe
I feel like you just typed out a learning disability somehow.
Today year - 2000 + 11 is that hard?
Dude, I’m lucky if I remember what “today year” even is, much less the math! Time got weird after 2020…
I mean, you're right, but birth month counts too...I don't know about OP but that always throws me off as my bday isn't until Dec.
It's not that you can't figure it out, it's just being embarrassed when you're wrong.
Math don't check out.
I'm 33, your equation equals 34.
Born in 99. Can confirm I just take the year and say I was that age for most of it
Jan 2000 here :)
Dang thats the money.
Indeed, I was supposed to born on the 31st Dec 1999 but didn't feel like it I guess :)
I thought I had it easy. Born in 1990. 2022? I'm 32. 2023? I'm 33.
But now I am married. Dec 2019. So it's always hard to calculate how many years.
And to add to it. My daughter is born Nov 2021.
Good luck to anyone that asks me how old she is. You gotta wait until I count on all my fingers.
I have a daughter who is 6 and a son who is 4. So when people ask what year they are born I need to try and do reverse math.
Born in 80’ So in year 2023>20+23= I’m 43
I was born in 79 and am also 43. Math is hard.
The math checks out.
What about before your birthday, when you have to subtract one? That's the part I always have to think about
same for people born in 2010
1970 gang unite!
My aunt and uncle got married new years day of 2000. Very easy to remember.
I forgot how old I was a couple months ago and had to pull up an online age calculator cuz I could not make it make sense. Yes, I'm stupid.
You'd be surprised...
Yeah it's hard to calculate when reality sets in. There's also a bit of reluctance from me as a lot of expectations follow me when I reveal my age even when I don't look like how old I am. It's like suddenly you feel that you are not so welcome in some conversations any more or people keep you out of their circles because they presume that you don't fit in.
I've gotten way past that and while realising that my body isn't what it was physically 20 years ago, I'm treating age as just a number and if one has a problem with that, it's really their problem not mine 🙂
And by the way, I was born in 1971.
Y'all forget how old you are? Can't imagine ever having to calculate my current age.
Wait until you get older. :)
Can confirm, am born in 2000.
2000 gang
They do have to calculate it, it's just the calculation is a bit easier for them.
They could also process the year as a string and drop the first two characters.
Only if you were born on January 1, otherwise you have to do a simple +-1 math
But we’re not really calculating anything. I was 12 in 2012 and 8 in 2008. That’s much less a calculation and more so just observing numbers.
You're not living up to your username with an effort like that!
My username is pure sarcasm unfortunately
Unless you're born in the middle of the year, in which case it's constant "off by 1" errors
Array indexing still biting us in 2022
This makes me feel better about having to ask my husband how old i am.
I just have to add 20 on to get mine, so not too bad.
One of us. One of us.
Its not so bad for me, i was born in 96 so i just have to add 4
I realized it was all over once I began forgetting how old I am.
Feb 2000 here, I agree 👍
I mean if youre within a couple years of it you would be like current year +5 or whatever
Try 77 sometime. The only reason I knew my mom's age is she was born in 57. Occasionally I'd even have to work the other way to figure out how old I was!
My kids were exactly 18 months apart, same day, one in 1999 and one in 2001. Math made (mostly) easy, baby.
I was just telling a friend that being born on a decade makes it easy for me to keep track, whereas I've heard my brother ask his wife to confirm his age.
If you're born in '89 just add 11 to the current year and you have your age (34). This works for any year you're born.
Born in ''83? Just add 17 to the current year. You have your age (40)
tbf, it may not be hard to calculate, but it is hard to admit I'm almost halfway my thirties...
Also born in 89, I can say I was still born in the Soviet Union.
It changes once a year, how stupid are some people that this is an issue?
Wait till you get a little older and start having a hard time remembering how old you are.
All becomes a blur at some point
And what year it is!
If you think about your age every day, you are the stupid one around here. Or maybe you are just 13 and it's easy because you eagerly await the next year so you can be treated a little bit more like an adult so you count the days.
My exact age is almost never relevant in my day-to-day life, I pretty much only get reminded of it on my actual birthday and don’t think much about it for the rest of the year. So if somebody asks for my age, usually I’ll be off by a year or two and my wife will need to correct me, because for some reason she remembers.
Damn. You sure told us. May this be your shining achievement of the day ✨