As someone with ADHD I've suffered with memory losses all my life!

Ahead of the curve...

I expected the health problems, the memory loss, all that stuff. The only old person thing I hoped would never happen is becoming a right-wing shithead. Nothing so far!

“Get off my lawn”, but not in a very bad way. lol. Now that I live in a house, I have to admit I get mildly infuriated when I see people walking across my front lawn or parking right by my driveway. But I don’t confront them or anything, I just stare menacingly behind half closed window blinds where they can’t see me.

Loss of imagination, patience, optimism

Back pain, sometime i need to stretch hard to ease the pain and i'm not even midlife

hearing loss; vision impairment; bad back; hernias; hypertension; diabetes.

some people are afraid that they're turning into their mother or their father; while i'm turning into both at the same time.

Almost 50. Most of (back pain, muscle pain, articulary pains...) my "age" issues have been cured (well, improved...) By an highly active sport life. Think of -daily- activity, not walks, but mixing running and swimming actively. It took one years or so, but I feel 38 again. The trick is NEVER stop, keep doing sport never let more that one or two days pass by without at least 1h run or 1h swim. Get proper clothes and shoes, RUN PROPERLY, and be very progressive not to injure your ligaments.

(Except for those small prints, I swear they used to write them bigger... And small cuts healing that still take ages...)

Also, my memory has improved. Maybe it's all the time I can let my mind free while swimming or running... And indeed my stress levels have dropped.

lol.. where do I start?

Eyes, went from being able to read the tiniest font to not being able to read a large font book in about 2 years.

2 knee surgeries

Getting up to pee 2x a night

I feel great physically, but:

Finally got hips at 50 (neither pregnancy not age changed my lean build until age 50).

Both nearsighted and farsighted now instead of just nearsighted.

And my goodness, supper at teatime is the best! We go out to eat at 4pm all the time now. So funny, I used to wait until after 8pm but now prefer either a late breakfast and a teatime meal, or lunch and early supper.

I've never had a great memory, wouldn't say it's gotten worse yet.

Joint pain. Muscle pain. Drastically slower healing of minor cuts and scrapes.

You can do some stuff to help fight the memory issues. Push hard to keep learning new things. Find complicated problems to solve and keep solving them.

Nothing accelerates cognitive decline faster than becoming complacent and avoiding mentally challenging activities.

• The switch to progressive lenses happened far sooner than I was hoping.

• Graying in the beard stayed away for a long time, and then in a matter of a year, decided to attack with all of its might. (Probably the same on my head too, but I've been shaving it forever so I wouldn't know)

• Heartburn troubles. Though that was less about ageing and more about gaining weight after quitting smoking twelve years ago.

Needing a cane. I'm not even that old, barely 50, but I've been on a cane as a necessity for almost twenty years now. The early part of that was spotty, after I had enough physical therapy to get off of a walker entirely, I slowly got to the point where I could skip the cane for most things while I tried going back to work.

That utterly failed lol. By 2008, it was pretty much mandatory anywhere but home, and over the years moved to being anywhere outside the house at all, with some days where it's inside too.

Kinda crazy looking back on it because now it seems like I've been in this situation my entire life, but it also doesn't feel like twenty years. Which, it isn't quite 20 yet, but IDGAF about precision on this lol.

But back as a kid, I always thought of canes as being for really old people. I kinda knew it wasn't only for old people, but the concept of it was like that.

Arthritis is the other one. I had no idea until it started up in my hands in my twenties that arthritis wasn't purely for people older than that. I'd never run into it, and had somehow also never read about it. But rheumatoid arthritis isn't ageist, it turns out.

Aging. I didn't expect to live through my twenties due to a reckless lifestyle that included lots of drugs and partying and rubbing shoulders with questionable types of people. I saw an old lady being helped walking with a younger woman at age ~27 and went, oh shit. That might be me one day. I had severely chilled out and converted to a more typical lifestyle by then.

Memory problems can occur after getting Covid, maybe that's a factor as well?

back pain, one day you'll wake up and everything just falls apart

My knees hurting so much. If I were taken hostage and ordered to kneel I could not and would be vaporized.

Getting a bad back. My back is not bad as some I know, but it is sore and awful lot. 😔

Taking fiber supplements

I'm finally growing some gray hair. I've earned each one of them and it's my favorite hair color.

CHS, CSS, CRS. can't hear shit, can't ses shit, can"t remember shit

The being held at arms length because of fear of breaking something

Unplug your phone lol