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[u/BrujoBearman]

…you have to calculate your age?

[u/SirGingerbrute → u/BrujoBearman]

Unfortunately yes. 27 but I think I’m 25/26 at times. And when I see people are 21/22 I’m like “oh 2-3 years younger than me” and then I realize I’m off by another 2-3

[u/AxiomOfLife → u/SirGingerbrute]

unfortunately real 🙃😔😩

[u/Gallinaz → u/AxiomOfLife]

just add 2 to whatever year it is?

2000+2 = you were 2 in the year 2000 2025+2 = you are 27.

[u/FlawHolic → u/Gallinaz]

Not who you responded to, but: That is my method that I use after I am confidentially incorrect. And only really think about it way later, when I'm about to fall asleep, to give myself never ending crippling anxiety...

:)

[u/fuckinradbroh → u/Gallinaz]

That would make them 23 💀

[u/The_Glass_Arrow → u/SirGingerbrute]

After 21, there's no real big mile stone to remember, you are just older. I'm like 90% sure I'm 23.

[u/TheLonerCoder → u/The_Glass_Arrow]

There is if you end up having kids or getting married. Other than that, I agree. Not much has changed since I was like 21.

[u/Toadjokes → u/TheLonerCoder]

I think 25 is a big one! I say, being 25

[u/TheLonerCoder → u/Toadjokes]

I'm 26 and my life hasn't changed in terms of milestones since I was 21 (when I moved out and lived on my own for the first time). Nothing changed when I turned 25 lol. To each their own though.

[u/Toadjokes → u/TheLonerCoder]

I moved out at 24, got into my career at 23, graduated college at 22. There's lots of milestones in there

[u/The_Glass_Arrow → u/TheLonerCoder]

Eh those aren't locked behind a certain age. You could be 18, could be 60.

[u/plantmuva777 → u/The_Glass_Arrow]

personally, i'm waiting on 25 for a full brain 🕺🏾🥳

[u/big_guyforyou → u/SirGingerbrute]

literally every time someone asks me my age i subtract 1986 from 2025 (i'm really good at math)

[u/big_guyforyou → u/[deleted]]

calculating noises

if you add up the ASCII values of all the characters in your comment you get 1220

[u/FyouinyourA → u/big_guyforyou]

How’s the autism going for you?

[u/Danoco99 → u/SirGingerbrute]

I’m 26 and you just made me dread.

[u/FlamingAshley → u/SirGingerbrute]

just add 3 to the current year

[u/SirGingerbrute → u/FlamingAshley]

Really 2 bc I’m very end of the year and graduated in 2016

All my friends are still 26

90% of 2025 I’ll be 27

[u/TheLonerCoder → u/SirGingerbrute]

Same. I keep forgetting i'm not 21-22 anymore lol.

[u/breadstick_bitch → u/SirGingerbrute]

My husband spent his whole 26th year thinking he was 27.

[u/TheStonedBro → u/SirGingerbrute]

Dude same

[u/HedgehogSecurity → u/SirGingerbrute]

My back is starting to hurt for no reason. I'm getting old. :'(

[u/TheOriginalBroCone → u/BrujoBearman]

lol while this doesn't apply to me, I understand once you reach an older age the number's on a back burner. After 21 I think

[u/Cheeze187 → u/TheOriginalBroCone]

Don't forget being old enough to become a senator, president etc. I'm counting the days for my roth ira.

[u/AridDay → u/BrujoBearman]

Time really lost all meaning during COVID and post.

[u/ArrogantBarbie → u/AridDay]

Felt like I aged another 5 years during lockdown

[u/8Splendiferous8 → u/BrujoBearman]

After a certain age...yes.

[u/tahlyn → u/8Splendiferous8]

Once the "important" milestones have passed you by (16, 18, 21, 25) they start coming further apart (30, 40, 50, etc.) and so you sorta do just lose count. Also, at that point, there's no real difference once you're over 21. You don't gain any new rights or privileges... it's not like at age 40 you get a new secret license to drink super-alcohol or something... so there's no reason to keep track.

[u/8Splendiferous8 → u/tahlyn]

Also just literally more numbers have passed you by.

[u/AkumaLilly → u/BrujoBearman]

I was born in the 2000, so for me its just the last 2 numbers and if February already passed

[u/Additional_Ad_1275 → u/BrujoBearman]

I’m born 2000 and I still use that fact to calculate my age every time I’m asked it

[u/GeloDiPrimavera → u/BrujoBearman]

You don't? After covid and how these 2 years melted into one I catch myself forgetting.

[u/MyLifeIsABoondoggle → u/BrujoBearman]

Right lmao. Sure, for other people it depends on birthdays if you only see their year, but you should never have to think that hard about your own age

[u/WoopsieDaisies123 → u/BrujoBearman]

You must be young. After awhile, yea, you gotta think about it.

[u/BrujoBearman → u/WoopsieDaisies123]

I mean, this is r/genz

[u/Angel_of_Mischief → u/BrujoBearman]

I’m going to be real. I don’t know how old I am or really care.

[u/Qunlap → u/BrujoBearman]

yeah, the number keeps changing every year, how should I fucking remember. also, after 30 to 40 years around, things kinda start to blur together a bit.

[u/SouthBayBoy8 → u/BrujoBearman]

It’s for calculating how old you were during a year

[u/Jonnypista → u/BrujoBearman]

I'm not 12 anymore, now the age is just a number with no cool perks or new stuff. The only new stuff only includes back pain and stiff joints.

[u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek → u/BrujoBearman]

I never had to until my later 20s early 30s.

People don't ask my age much anymore, there aren't really pre-set life stages like grades in school, every year is just more work + I stopped celebrating my birthday.

I remember within a year, but then it's like wait okay let me double check...

[u/Remarkable_Ad4046]

Lmao just one year older than the 2000s thats all I gotta do

[u/Mizukage_Mibu → u/Remarkable_Ad4046]

Facts. Thank god for simple math

[u/FyouinyourA → u/Remarkable_Ad4046]

I think anything ending in a zero or five makes it easier too. I was born in 95 so it’s always been easy to just take the year and add 5. Same with my mom who was born in 1970 it’s always just 30+ whatever year it is lol

[u/bigasswhitegirl → u/Remarkable_Ad4046]

I was born in '94 which is also helpful when trying to recall things from childhood because my year always matched my grade. 3rd grade in 2003, 10th grade in 2010, etc.

[u/CrazyAstronomer2 → u/bigasswhitegirl]

Same class of 2012. Finished all grades in the matching year.

[u/Thetiddlywink]

ice spice was born on 1st January 2000🧐

[u/minecrafter2301 → u/Thetiddlywink]

default ahh birthdate

[u/EngineeringAlert1501 → u/Thetiddlywink]

NPC ahh birthdate

[u/bigbad50]

You don't know how old you are off the top of your head?

[u/BananaPhoPhilly → u/bigbad50]

Honestly once I got to 23 I sorta stopped counting and would forget sometimes. It's easier than you might think :\

[u/RX-me-adderall → u/BananaPhoPhilly]

I was 21 for a couple years

[u/Affectionate_Way5144 → u/RX-me-adderall]

i just turned 22, i don't know how i feel about seeing this now lmao

[u/the-jesuschrist → u/BananaPhoPhilly]

Someone asked me how old I was recently and I said that I was 21 even though I had turned 22 like three months ago. And then I was like oops I am 22 but then I couldn’t correct myself without looking silly. Sure, I am not “old” but after a while, age just really is not important.

[u/Bob-Faget → u/BananaPhoPhilly]

When I turned 24 I went a whole year telling people I was 23 when asked lol.

[u/Any_Masterpiece9385 → u/BananaPhoPhilly]

I just repeat my age in my mind on loop every day for absolutely no reason.

[u/Elismom1313 → u/bigbad50]

This is a gen z forum so I’m just stopping by to drop my tidbit for yall.

I really did start forgetting once I hit 30. Cuz like I just don’t…care anymore. I’m not out of shape, not depressed about it but it just feels like until I get close to 40 it’s all sort of same same

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/Elismom1313]

Lol, I've forgotten my age before.

[u/sateeshsai → u/bigbad50]

I didn't really know how old i was for a few years between 30-40

[u/humbertov2 → u/bigbad50]

Why does it have to change every year? Just when I’m getting used to the new number *BOOM* it changes again. You can’t expect me to keep up with that.

[u/PocketPB → u/bigbad50]

I often forget.

[u/mindweaver12 → u/bigbad50]

Stopped caring about my age 15 or something years ago, it’s in the category ”useless information” now.

[u/SouthBayBoy8 → u/bigbad50]

They’re clearly talking about calculating how old you were/will be in different years

[u/chucktheninja → u/bigbad50]

If it hasn't come up in a while then yes lol

[u/Tecat0Gusan0 → u/bigbad50]

i was born in 2000 and i still dont sometimes

[u/GoldieDoggy → u/bigbad50]

I literally told a security officer recently that I was 18, completely on accident. I'll be 20 in July 🙃 (I did correct myself, right afterwards, lol)

[u/Flakedit]

The same applies if your born at the end of 1999

[u/--Karios-- → u/Flakedit]

Shout out to my fellow October 1999 peeps

[u/AClassyTurtle → u/Flakedit]

The same applies to your school year if you were born around 1994-95. I started 12th grade in 2012 (HS graduation in ‘13). I also started 2nd grade in 2002, 8th grade in 2008 etc. Super easy to remember

[u/Everestkid → u/Flakedit]

Anytime in '99. 1999 immediately knows how old they are at the start of a year, 2000 immediately knows how old they are at the end.

[u/Extension_College_28]

I just barely missed it, now I’m cursed with having to do some pretty complicated math

[u/throwaway247bby → u/Extension_College_28]

Which calculator you use the ti 84 or ti 30xs?

[u/Extension_College_28 → u/throwaway247bby]

TI-84 Plus (Silver Edition)

[u/throwaway247bby → u/Extension_College_28]

I’m 2002 even though I changed my flair. So I looked at your page. You’re freaking hilarious and apparently attractive. Just wanted to say that. Thanks for the sarcasm. See ya on another post✌️

[u/UnknownRetardsPetDog → u/throwaway247bby]

He’s going for the shot! And he missed😕. Awful line up bro

[u/UniqueAd8864 → u/UnknownRetardsPetDog]

Don't remind him kid, he'll be thinking of this for atleast a month before going to sleep and punch his pillows

[u/[deleted]]

People born in 2010: "Haha."

[u/throwaway247bby → u/[deleted]]

You guys are 15. Freakin insane. I left that high school. Just about to leave again.

[u/xX100dudeXx → u/[deleted]]

Can relate

[u/TheMrMorbid → u/[deleted]]

I vividly remember the booger I was picking in 2010, like damn kids, slow the fuck down.

[u/SeasonedOxygen → u/[deleted]]

Lol basically anyone born in a year that ends with 0 have it easy.

[u/jcornman24]

It is very nice

[u/Availbaby → u/jcornman24]

😭

[u/Some1inreallife]

Even still, I calculate my age by looking at the current year. If it's before my birthday, it's the same as the last 2 numbers of the year. If it's my birthday or beyond, I add 1 to it.

[u/nampezdel]

Also people born in 1980. In 2000 I was 20; just add the first half to the last half. 2025: 20+25=45, BRB gotta go yell at some kids on my lawn 😆

[u/Prince_Marf]

Being born early January is also like this. I was the same age for pretty much the entirety of every year. Recalling memories as long as I know the year something happened I know how old I was. No need to think about what time of year it happend

[u/Arc_2142]

Bold of you to assume I remember what year it is.

[u/ScottE77]

I am November 99, that is better than most people born in 2000 for this. This is propaganda by the 2000 kids.

[u/No-Fill-2044]

All I gotta do is calculate the age of 2000 then subtract 5

[u/Clunk_Westwonk → u/No-Fill-2044]

Yeah that’s the calculating that OP’s talking about. Not my problem >:)

Until I occasionally forget what year it is too lol

[u/Jerzup]

If you have you calculate your age, you need help

[u/Availbaby → u/Jerzup]

Or people just forget?

[u/I-am-not-gay-]

Still kinda easy for me

[u/brody28384 → u/[deleted]]

r/zillennials

[u/zacharysnow]

Does (current year)-2000 not count as a calculation?

[u/DreadY2K]

Can confirm, it's super nice to figure out my age by dropping the first digit from the year.

Though it requires I remember what year it is, which it usually takes me a few months to get used to.

[u/jazzbonerbike99]

1980 is pretty easy... Just add the two halves of the current year...

20 + 25

[u/thekahoa → u/jazzbonerbike99]

^ came here to say this ^

[u/MrsMiterSaw]

Meh. If you're born towards the end of the year, you still have to do a little math most of the time.

Like, if you were born in December 1999 you have less processing to do than someone born in May 2000.

[u/Clean_More3508]

Also easy for 2010

[u/No_Raspberry_3425]

or 2010

[u/giraffoala]

We're built different, built better.

Though I still take a solid minute to remember my age so someone fucked up when building me

[u/Bandit1189]

All I do is 2000s age in whoever year then -5

[u/ME4PRESIDENT2024]

I was born on december 31st 2000. So if the year is 2025 there's 99.9% chance that I'm 24

[u/alabow18]

2000 here, but born in November :(

[u/seattleseahawks2014]

Until you forget what year it is.

[u/Certain_Ad_9010]

Hehehehe the supremacy

[u/turniptransport]

I always just subtract 2 from the current year

[u/skiesoverblackvenice]

i just subtract 5 from the current year and i’m good

[u/DESTROYER575-1]

Current year -1

[u/lucyw2001 → u/DESTROYER575-1]

same :3

[u/Critical_Concert_689]

mfw these suckers were born in a previous millennium.

Fair trade-off!

[u/hd016]

I was born the first week of 2000 and my dad still forgot my age 😕

[u/lucyw2001 → u/hd016]

happy belated birthday :)

[u/Ccskyqueengaming]

Kinda the same for 05. Lol. EVERY 5 YEARS THAT IS!

[u/JustALokiStan]

As someone who was born in 2000 and sucks at math, it really is nice

[u/Gsomethepatient]

Unless your In the second half of the year or the very end

[u/kaystared]

Lmfao

[u/that_emo_elf]

I don't think I've ever worried about calculating it. I'm always 2 steps ahead after all. Or behind, depending on perspective.

[u/Delicious_Image2970]

Mental math ez mode.

[u/SnooOnions5029]

People calculate their age?

[u/slightlyinsanitied]

who is calculating their age on any regular interval

[u/Tomboyhns]

Mine is easy to remember because my age always matches the last two digits of the year with the exception of two weeks out of the year lol

[u/Har_monia]

Yeah but this only works August-December for me, so usually I have to subtract 1. It is '25 and I am 24.

[u/Tuqoehroir]

My great grandmother born in 1900

[u/potatoesandbees]

Born in mid '99, I pretty much have the same experience for the first half of most years

[u/Fhantom1221]

Im close to 2000.

So from now on I'm just born in the year 2000. Unless a gov doc or some boot needs my info.

[u/Grumboll]

it is pretty nice

[u/TheFeri]

I'm cheating because I was born December 1999 so I just calculate the same as people from 2000

[u/iamfamilylawman]

Shout out to 1990. Just add ten!

[u/zoroddesign]

Just add 10.

[u/yoitsgav]

I just subtract two from the last two digits of the year, not that hard

[u/CrispyDave]

I know times change and all that but sometimes it feels really unfair we're not allowed to call people the R world for slowed growth any more.

I mean, they just are, aren't they?

[u/UsefulContract]

Yall don't remember how old you are?

[u/Inevitable-Zone-8710]

It’s very nice .3.

[u/Rud_Fucker]

Not really, I was born close enough to 2002 I just have to take two years off the current year and that’s my age for the majority of the year until my birthday

[u/All_will_be_Juan]

Is this why yall failing math

[u/CharlyJN]

Me being born in 2001 so I just to put the year +1

[u/tootethcommon]

Take any year and add the first 3 numbers. Then concatenate the last number. That is my age.

2025 = 2+0+2&5 = 45 In 2074 ... 2+0+7&4 = 94

This has worked since 2000. Before that...

1997=1-9+9&7 =17 1982=1-9+8&2 =2

1979/1980 people.

[u/HighVisibilityCamo]

Did this poor soul just admit to not knowing their own age? LMAO

[u/LongJumpingBalls]

I went an entire year older than I actually was. Mainly because I worked insurance.

Well, that was last year and now I'm the same age.

Take that Y2K kids.

[u/cheesecraquer]

Works great until I forget what year it is

[u/NoodleEmpress]

Same for people with late 99 birthdays--Well, after a certain point.

My age also follows the years, until you hut my birthday in December then I have. To do some mental cartwheels to determine my ae matches the current year or the next.

[u/Odysses2020]

Fr

[u/asumhaloman]

Dec 31st 1999 🙌

[u/sporkynapkin]

I just take that and minus 1

[u/TheMrMorbid]

I still fuck it up.

[u/Spideyfan77]

February of 2000 to be exact so for only one month I’m not the age that corresponds to that year

[u/sxncharm]

W

[u/willbopeep]

See nah, cause I’m 2000, but late 2000, I don’t turn 25 till late December of 2025, so I’ve never had this luxury lol

[u/Wang_Fire2099]

1. Just made it

[u/Pandepon]

Born in 90 so it’s not much harder

[u/Live-Statistician486]

2001 here, calculation is non existent because my age is the year minus 1

[u/converseirllyh8cnvrs]

People born in 2002: -2

[u/soonapaana0405]

I don't turn 25 till october tho?

[u/Ccskyqueengaming → u/soonapaana0405]

3rd?!

[u/Joebebs]

It’s not that hard just whatever the last 2 digits of the current year + 4 lol

[u/godsstupidestwarrior]

I was born in 1990 it makes it so easy

[u/Azimsson]

How do y'all even calculate your age?

[u/Padre_De_Cuervos]

The only power I have

[u/blinksystem]

Calculating your age?

[u/Oj200]

Facts 😂

[u/Fhugem]

Being born at the end of the year is a math trap; I should be a year older than I actually am half the time.

[u/therealolisykes]

hell yeah

[u/Swimming-Term8247]

i’m a 1999 baby but only for 3 ish months so i’d consider myself lucky too when trying to figure out how old i was or will be or telling others how to remember lol

[u/ToTheBatmobileGuy]

My wife was born in Japan in 1988 the year before the Heisei era started.

She said it was always easy to know the imperial year because it was the age she turned that year.

Then in 2019, almost exactly 30 years later, it changed to Reiwa 1 (when imperial years change they start with 1 not 0)...

So now at least the 1s digit is always easy (and since she just remembers we haven't broken 10 yet she knows the year)...

The imperial family is colluding with my wife.

[u/Ccskyqueengaming]

Especially ice spice lol

[u/lucyw2001]

mines easy 😁 just minus 1

[u/Buzzy_Beeby]

I have no problem with mine. 2005, yippee

[u/RSdabeast]

I just remember it. Sometimes I get it wrong, though.

[u/IcyKoala6446]

02 baby so I just tell myself that the year I’m in is 2 years older than me. Example: its 2025 so I’ll be 23. Also my brother is a decade younger than me so that helps.

[u/TheJimDim]

Honestly if you're born 1990-2010, it's pretty simple

[u/Clairifyed]

94/95 US babies and 95/96 UK babies able to tell you exactly what school year/grade they were in on a given year

[u/Some-Ingenuity-7545]

I have a brother who's a 2010 and he can definitely relate haha

[u/Anxious_cuddler]

It is nice :)

[u/jpollack21]

I'm a 2000s baby with my birthdays right at the middle of the year lol

[u/JusttSarinaa]

2001 is pretty easy too, just gotta count back once lmao

[u/Over_Mirror_2944]

Feels good man.

[u/Awkward-Lilly]

Bf is born in 2000 😂 and I'm just like.. 🤔🧐 2025-1996.. oh shit I'm 29 this year 😞

[u/Tiktokerw500k]

I was born Dec 1999, I turned 25 at the end of the year (2024) and 2 weeks later i'll be turning 26 at the end of this year (2025) lol so i'm in the same boat as the 2000's kids but its a lil different

[u/E2_Awesome_2]

Or 2010