We now know whose male & whose female. Let see how old we all are.

29

Well, speak for yourself honey. I see screen names and they don't ring my gender identification bells... : )

I'm in my 40's.....

49 soon to be the Big 50

Originally posted by Wheel1975
Well, speak for yourself honey. I see screen names and they don't ring my gender identification bells... : )

Read the poll on gender

25, and female, although my name means "The manly" and even though I'm in no way butch or a tomboy or anything like that (I did climb my fair share of trees as a kid, preferred woodwork to knitting and housekeeping classes and didn't much care for dolls, but since I hardly had any friends anyway I was neither "one of the girls" nor "one of the lads"), I am definitely one of the least "girly" women I know! :p

I just celebrated my 18th anniversary of my 21st birthday.. :p :D ;)

A charmingly boyish 33, an impish grin and a sparkle in my eye :-D

I reluctantly turned 36 at the end of October :)

I'm still 52.....

Rats! What a time for my memory problem to fail me....

Ken

I'm 28 - sometimes I act like I'm 8. I look like I'm 18 and sometimes I feel like I'm 108.

21 on halloween :D

In May 2004 I will celebrate the 28th anniversary of my escape from the womb!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by tudorose
I'm 28 - sometimes I act like I'm 8. I look like I'm 18 and sometimes I feel like I'm 108.

This is ALMOST a perfect description of me... hehehe :D

19, will be 20 next Feb. I guess that makes me the youngest out of everyone who's posted here so far lol

Just turned 32 in Nov.

I guess I'm the old dog on this porch (so far) at 53.

http://www.epic-isti.com/images/squolf_angry.jpg

Grrrrrrr!

I am 44 and still feel like I am 20.

Woah! You all are old!

...except for suupernova and bratty.

"Except for...." hmmmm....

Does that mean we haven't heard from the teen contingent because its just too LAME to post in geezerville......?

Hey lil', you can't call us old if you don't post your age or birthday:p

Originally posted by joanrdtobe
I'm in my 40's.....

...but with the wisdom of an old soul, Joan! :)

I'm 32, turning 33 in April. Look like I'm 12. Can act like I'm 12. Feel like I have touches of the wisdom of a 102 year old...but those are probably just some of my ADD moments! :D

Originally posted by smooch
I'm 32, turning 33 in April. Look like I'm 12. ...

Might as well put in another informal observation I have made in support of my ongoing interest (yes -- a "project") in looking for links between AD/HD and other "syndromes/disorders/advantages".

I suspect that people with AD/HD tend to look better and keep their looks longer and seem younger than others the same age. I don't think it is just "being 32 and acting 12" (I am so guilty of that myself, even at 52, and even on meds).

In fact, my one of my favorite party amusements is to make new acquaintances guess my age, and enjoy the expressions on their faces when I tell them the answer (the enertainment value is so high that it overcomes any vain desires on my part to pretend to be young and virile :D).

My mother's side of my 2-sided AD/HD family does very well in that department as well. She's in her 70's now but only is now looking it.

Why is this a (possible) connection to something else? I have read over a lot of both clinical and non-professional literature on autism (of all flavors). Certain phrases stand out, for example: "autistic children seem unusually attractive...".

Another connection I have been trying to discover is between "sleepy sickness" (encephalitis lethargica) and AD/HD -- the obvious link is one of the "recovery" modes, a "behavioral disorder" very closely resembling extreme cases of classic ADHD hyperactivity.

BTW, the usual recovery mode is Parkinsonism, and Parkinsonism is a well-known disorder in some of the dopamine centers of the brain.

This, by itself, means little, since dopamine is so widely used in the brain that two dopamine-related disorders do not necessarily have any other relationship. Which is of course, why it is necessary to have other correlations in support of the hypothesis (like the "misbehavior" recovery mode).

Of course, by now some of you realize I am relying on Oliver Sack's book "Awakenings", and from there comes the third link: He notes in many of his clinical cases (Parkinsoninan as well as "hyper") an unusually youthful and/or attractive appearance for the subject's age. Most importantly, he goes so far as to suggest that the tendency is characteristic. But of course, he hasn't any idea why this is so....

And neither do I.

Comments? Do we need Yet Another Poll?

I get this all the time: A stranger will ask if all 5 kids are mine and proceed to look at me or further comment disapprovingly when I respond in the affirmative. Several people have gone so far as to suggest methods of birth control or that I take up a different hobby. I then follow up with my age, 32, and will either get relieved or skeptical looks. What is that ?:mad:

I guess we're hard to figure out. We don't "play by the rules". We're fidgety because we "weren't brought up right", we don't pay attention to things because "we don't care about anything", even things we should know are vitally important to us, we're "shifty-eyed" instead of overwhelmed sensorily by someone else's direct look, etc. There are no "rules" for judging AD/HDs as they are, and a lot of the "normals" (there I go labeling.....) don't want to admit the rules they rely on for feeling "normal" aren't as real as they want them to be.....

Kinda sad (for both sides, although more hazardous for OUR side). Maybe your life hasn't been as full of the clueless as mine, so you can take this as negativity resulting from my own personal set of bad experiences....

:( awwww, V.:(

:mad: forget those SOBs (sons of biscuits):mad:

Originally posted by FlakeyGirl
:( awwww, V.:(

:mad: forget those SOBs (sons of biscuits):mad:

"sniff sniff"

http://www.epic-isti.com/imhip/images/sniffsniff.jpg

The ranks of what I call "The Clueless" remind me most of some of the cast members of movies like "Night of the Living Dead" or "Armies of Darkness". They cannot be reasoned with, only withstood until Dawn.....XD

(Hey MadMike -- photo op here.....)

Originally posted by vinceptor
The ranks of what I call "The Clueless" remind me most of some of the cast members of movies like "Night of the Living Dead" or "Armies of Darkness". They cannot be reasoned with, only withstood until Dawn.....XD
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(Hey MadMike -- photo op here.....)

24 careening towards 25. I see none of us are 91+. Shame. That means we have no excuse for our collective senility ;)
Nah, I luv ya guys!

I'm 32 dreading 33...is there any way of stopping this crazy thing? I'm getting too old, too fast. I swear to gawd I was a kid just not too long ago. Sigh.

40.... but feel not a day over 25...... ;)

on March 8th of 2004 I turn 25 for the ninth time. :-) Never underestimate the power of denial!

Personally I think it has greater potential than cheese! :-O

I'm 30.. got carded all the way up to 29.. the minute I turned 30, everyone refuses to card me!!

When I was 26, I got carded for a Rated R movie! When I was 28 and teaching in a middle school, a substitute asked me for my hall pass!

23 years old, but I started my life a week ago when I found out I had add. Anyone else feel the same?

My new years resolution: make goals to overcome my new found (always there) problems with add.

25
Is that young or old? you decide im not sure

Terminally adolescent at 50.
I get met with incredulousness when I mention I have a son who's 31 (also AD/HD).
Don't know if that's because I look younger or they just can't believe I could ever have coped with that much responsibility.
BTW I appear to have a super constitution. Despite the ways I have abused my body over the years (me's good now).
Anyone else seem to dodge the usual consequences of a misspent life?
I am blessed.

I am a 27 year old with a 17 year old mind! I don't wanna grom up Im an ADD Kid there's so many normies' minds that i can play with!:D

Aage is almost irrelevant when you continue to act youthfully - people at work accused me of acting like a teenager the other day. This is fine 'cos I'm not sure what I want to be when I grow up. BTW am 40 now

46 and still haven't decided what i want to be when i grow up. people think i look younger than my age. i could hear it all day.

28

Of all the thing's I remember lol...I'm 30 soon to be 31 in February

20... my birthdays in february too!

I've always been told I look younger than my age too. I've taken some comfort in that .... being aimless is cuter on a young person, isn't it? :D Many of the moms I hang out with now are in their 20s, and they never guess I'm cough gasp wheeze 40! Still can't believe it myself. I demand a recount!

My mother (who was a bit inattentive, but not to the same extent) always looked younger than her years too. And my 5-y.o. (who acts very ADD) is unusually good-looking. I say that with total objectivity. :D

LOL, usually^

OK, so I should have said usually good-looking, when he's not being obnoxious! ;p

you know, every time i'm asked that question i have to stop and think! "o.k., i was born in 1971 and it's 2004 but i haven't had my birthday yet, so i'm 33. no wait, i'll *be* 33." *sigh*

have to add that i've got a feb. birthday too, christiana.

I am 24. My B-day is in September...... but people say I look 15..............but I think mine has more to do with my height because when people see my pic on line they think I'm 18.
As far as how I act well, when I am being silly I act like a kid but I get told I act older than my age more than younger. I guess I'm the odd ball here on that! LOL!:p

Bri - enjoy. comes in handy when you're older. I got carded until i was 33. hehehe... i was 26 when i had my first child. the photos i sent to my then overseas husband, well, everyone thought he had robbed the cradle. they thought i was 16.

49, and nobody's ever carded me...

...the thinning gray hair may have something to do with it.

cumulatively???? not quite sure!

WooHoo I'm a Feb. b-day girl too. Wait, it just doesn't seem right celebrating my birthday,,,after 30 they should become optional. lmao

They are optional dear. In March I'm 25 again for the ninth time. :D

I'm a sassy, stubborn, but still likable 17 year old, and I'm gonna run away to Never-Never Land with Peter Pan and never grow up!

I'm 24 as well, but most people say that I look like I'm 18. Which is a good thing when I get older!!
~amanda~

I'm joining Kit,,,Second star to the right and straight on till morning

I'm 38 years young.
Will be 39 in October.

30 here

I'm 44, December birthday.

Don't know if if it's just me, but I've always been content with my age.

Discovering my ADD has given me a fresh start, so I'm feeling even younger than usual!

I'm 30.. got carded all the way up to 29.. the minute I turned 30, everyone refuses to card me!!

When I was 26, I got carded for a Rated R movie! When I was 28 and teaching in a middle school, a substitute asked me for my hall pass!
When i was 28 i got carded for a lottery ticket. I'm within 24hrs of being 37...i also act 14 and have the wisdom of 102 year old.

I can feel the adult crash coming:( ...

Depression finally made me look my age at 40. I'm doing OK now but am not a kid any more. At least I know a little better how my head works.

i'll turn 37 this december (on my grandmother's 87th birthday!;-)
i look (and sometimes act) younger than my age, though - my friend lotta (who'll turn 33 this year) thought i was much younger than her when we first met - which was when i bought my dog from her kennel 8 years ago!

:)

25 and almost 26. I am scared to death of getting older, I don't know why! Everyday I obsessively check for wrinkles and coat my eyes with creams.

Im Old enough to know better.....TOOO young to care!!! :D

Had B-day in June so I 28 :D ....Heh when I hit 30 I still won't care!

38 years YOUNG

38 years YOUNG

And yet you dont look a day over 40:p


KIDDIN!!!!!!!

34. And, I wouldn't go back :D (However, it'd be nice if my behind would!)

32 here, :-)

LOL that is too weird that this poll shows a perfect bell curve topping off at age 30! Most of the polls results are too wierd to interpret. This one is very clear... I don't know why.

BTW I'm 40 if I hadn't already mentioned.

Turned 33 yesterday, ask my 9 yr old and he'll tell ya I'm almost dead. Gotta love a childs view of age.

19 since April, and holding on to the last remaining months of being a teenager! hehe

"Too young to be taken seriously, but too old to act like a child"

I'm 18, but people normally say I look and behave older...I behave older sometimes, and other times I behave 9-10 years old. It's good, though, because workign with kids, it's alright to kind of work on their level and understand. Plus it's more fun. Oh yes and there is a crazy camouflaged bird on my neighbor's roof outside, it's like the exact same color as his roofing. If it wasn't moving I wouldn't be able to see it. Just thought I'd throw that in there.

LOL that is too weird that this poll shows a perfect bell curve topping off at age 30! Most of the polls results are too wierd to interpret. This one is very clear... I don't know why.
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Well, 101 respondants and 10 or so "buckets" (age categories) will give the Normal curve a good opportunity to impose itself. But it also looks like a lot of age distributions, a lot which have humps in the middle and trail off in either direction, but aren't Normal either.

I bet (and we would need a lot more respondants) if you break things down by economic status, etc (but, of course, not age...), you'd see more diversity.

What I notice is 0s in the youngest and oldest categories. Not too many 10 year olds with internet access and savvy and the desire to cruise a forum full of grown-ups. I'd guess there aren't too many 60+ers with computer experience, since it wasn't available when they were teens.

Ken

45 & still acting 16 ;-)

Who voted over 90??????

just turned 26 here, but i can tell you that i have often forgot. i still feel 21 and on a good day 18. i look young too, hopefully that will stick around. i am starting to obsess over my eyes. i swear they are drooping!!:eek:

Who voted over 90??????

Nobody -- the graph is a bit misleading. It shows a tiny bar even for zero counts. You have to look at the numbers for the real data.


Ken

19 although i act like a 12 yr old most days

I am 21 years old.

OK -- there is someone who voted over 91.... I don't remember that being there when I last commented, but of course that don't mean a thing....

xP

Ken

33 and holding - at least for 3 more weeks. ;)

21 here as well

younger than some but older than most....but I'm not telling! You'll have to guess!

In my 40's.....

ps. I'm not 91

Oh, I'm 94 and going strong. Forget what year I was born......thinking*** !!!

Sc@tterbr@in- you need to listen to the song 'When I was a boy' by Dar Williams- judging just from what you wrote, I think you would love it. In fact, way don't y'all listen to that song, and then her song 'You're aging well'- most of you have probably never heard of her, but she's awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!

24.. big 24

a very old 26 :)

I am 21
Wow there is really someone here over 91
lol
I don quite believe.

That is a nice picture u got there civdiv..

Thanks, I kind of describes where i am in life right now...

Just turned 40......

I'm 27. Soon to be 28.

I'm the ripe old age of 21. I feel like I'm 12 though. Too bad I've got wrinkles from being a smoker since I was 16 though. Everybody says I look older. I used to take it as a complement. Now that I'm "of age" I just kinda shudder. YIKES!

Old? You mean to insinuate that I'm old? Why you ... #$@@#@$#$#
... Hey to think of it, I guess it's a compliment. Old = More wisdom, More maturity :)
(don't tell me about more wrinkles etc ... lol)

I am 16 here, and only three of us have answered this poll!:)

I guess we're hard to figure out. We don't "play by the rules". We're fidgety because we "weren't brought up right", we don't pay attention to things because "we don't care about anything", even things we should know are vitally important to us, we're "shifty-eyed" instead of overwhelmed sensorily by someone else's direct look, etc.

....Omigod.
:eek: <---------(shock of recognition)

Thank you for throwing that last one in there, I thought it was just me that finds that overwhelming so damned often... which is kind of ridiculous now that I pause to think about it.

Oh, errr, I'm 40. I also had the "Dorian Gray" effect for quite a while, I got carded by bouncers until my mid-30s... I look more or less my actual age now. Depression and caring for a parent with senile dementia 24/7 for some years adds mileage...

i'm 19, i guess i'm glad to see there's a lot of people around my age. :)

i must be one of the youngest here: im only 12!

Hey! I'm indeed the youngest here! I'm the only one who voted for 12 or less!
Oh deary, there's an old wise sage who's 91+ years old around here?

I am 28 u.s. and 41 canadian


digitl:p

I am 28 u.s. and 41 canadian


digitl:p
and with quite the sense of humor!! love it. :D

I am 29 but i feel like a teenager and it is at this age that i realize that if i could do things over again, i would have not made so many mistakes when i was in my 20's

I am 29 but i feel like a teenager. boy i wish i could have done things diffrently when i was 20

yes well, i wish i knew then what i know now - how much better i would be at this point! :D

It's been a while since I posted this thread. Interesting to see we have someone over 91 year old amongst us. I wonder how many of us are still here from back in 2005.

I was just thinking too how old the posts are! :o

I'm 19, female. Don't act my age, don't look it either :p

Bit annoying when I wanna be treated my age, and people ask if I'm still at school grr! But means I can still get away with child fares! Sssh! ;)
And I guess if I act immaturely in public, it won't look so bad! :D

i will be 41 in 23 days

I'm 30 in 2 days time.....

Selena

I'm 30 in 2 days time.....

Selena

Your birthday is tomorrow? so is my youngest daughter's she'll be 20 :) Hope you have a nice one :)

I'm 16.
17 on Dec 11th.

I'm still in the double digits, age wise.

Spread among three of my siblings, I have two nieces and seven nephews. . . .

Next month, I am to become a great-aunt! Wowee!

Not to mention I'm the primary caretaker of three full-time outdoor cats, ages 2, 10, and 11; and five full-time indoor cats, ages 5, 10, 15, 15, and 18! Most of these cats I've had since they were a year old or younger.

Let's just say that at my current age, I feel younger than I did when I was in my 20s.

Cats:)

I´m forty years old.

I'm in the second largest age group, but yet I've yet to find many. where are all the 18-25 year olds out there??? i'm 21, and feel like my age group is somewhat a minority, boy was I wrong.

I'm 19, though my dad says I act like I'm 8. Hey, if I wanna watch cartoons, I'm gonna watch cartoons!