I’m still in my 20s, but as of a few years ago I started forgetting what’s my exact age. I always have to stop and recalculate it each time someone asks me. I get asked fairly infrequently, but when I do it’s a bit weird/embarrassing that I have to say “wait, let me calculate”. (I know when I was born, of course.)
It seems as if there’s no good reason I’d remember it, since it changes all the time and it is rarely mentioned in practice. But others, including people much older than myself, know their own age immediately.
I’m also terrible at remembering people’s names, I don’t know if that could be related?
It’s pretty common. Some rock band even made a song about it what’s my age again
I mean, it’s not really about how he forgets, it’s about not acting like an “adult” in your twenties.
Yeah, but that’s not really too dissimilar to what op’s talking about, right? Looking back like things were better or acting the way when things were better…
No. OP is talking about literally forgetting, like, “I’m 33, oh wait no, 34.”
Blink 182 knew, they just didn’t care.