older generations unite!

Folks, can I just say - you're ALL looking great for your age! <3

• I was born in 1980.
  
• I look like I'm in my early 30's.
  
• I feel like I'm in my early 20's.
  
• I act like I'm in my early teens.
  
• Some people still call me "baby".
  

• I discovered The Sims (3) when I was 33.
  
• I looked like a 23 y/o.
  
• I felt like 13 y/o.
  
• I acted like a baby.
  
• Most people didn't even know I exist. Fun fact: most people still don't.
  

People thought I was much younger than my true age up until I reached my 40s. I'm also short, so people still call me "kiddo" even though I'm 47 (48 in November) and for the most part these people are either the same age or a few years older so it feels weird to be called that by my own age group.

I've also been age shamed, as I think there is still a stigma with "women of a certain" age being told they can't wear this or do that once they reach 30. It is a thing and I've experienced it many times. Being told my hair was too long "for my age", or saying I shouldn't wear logo tees "at my age". So what is one supposed to do once they reach a milestone? Revoke their right to fashion? And of course playing games "at my age". As well as dancing. Fun fact was that I was the youngest dancer in my group in my late 30s-early 40s, the other ladies in my class were older. Yup, they called me "kiddo", haha. Someone had said to my face before that "nobody wants to watch adults dancing and it's "for kids". Yeah people sure have a lot of opinions about other peoples' ages. I tell them to whistle and that I didn't ask their opinion. I guess that's one thing I've learned to appreciate with age. I used to be too timid to speak up for myself and now I'm not.

67! And proud of it. I've been playing since 2005 when my grown daughter introduced me to Sims2.

I definitely look younger than my age (late 30s). Part of it is probably the fact that I'm short and almost never wear make up. Last week I got IDed buying a box of premixed spirits in the supermarket. That's always fun. It happens to me in the supermarket far more frequently than it happens in a pub. In my early 20s I occasionally got IDed going to clubs with my then colleagues and I only got IDed once in that situation, so it may be scenario-specific. Last year, I was involved in an RTA and the police officer who spoke to me before the ambulance turned up told my NOK he thought I was a teenager heading to school before I told him my DOB. :o I guess I'm an elf...

"Finvola;c-18126214" wrote:
People thought I was much younger than my true age up until I reached my 40s. I'm also short, so people still call me "kiddo" even though I'm 47 (48 in November) and for the most part these people are either the same age or a few years older so it feels weird to be called that by my own age group.

I've also been age shamed, as I think there is still a stigma with "women of a certain" age being told they can't wear this or do that once they reach 30. It is a thing and I've experienced it many times. Being told my hair was too long "for my age", or saying I shouldn't wear logo tees "at my age". So what is one supposed to do once they reach a milestone? Revoke their right to fashion? And of course playing games "at my age". As well as dancing. Fun fact was that I was the youngest dancer in my group in my late 30s-early 40s, the other ladies in my class were older. Yup, they called me "kiddo", haha. Someone had said to my face before that "nobody wants to watch adults dancing and it's "for kids". Yeah people sure have a lot of opinions about other peoples' ages. I tell them to whistle and that I didn't ask their opinion. I guess that's one thing I've learned to appreciate with age. I used to be too timid to speak up for myself and now I'm not.

I'm glad you're at that stage where you are happy to be yourself regardless of what other people think. It's so sad that people think it's ok to dictate to others how they should behave or dress, particularly in terms of gender or age. A while back a family member made a remark out of the blue that women should only dye their hair to change the colour and not to hide grey hair. That relative believes in growing old gracefully. My view is "No thanks. Disgracefully all the way."

A while back a family member made a remark out of the blue that women should only dye their hair to change the colour and not to hide grey hair.

Grey is a color, so.... :)

I'm 68 and have been playing The Sims since the day I pre-ordered SimCity4. The sales clerk suggested it, since I was getting SC4 (and had played those since SimCity the original on Amiga). I had avoided it because all the promos showed Sims hitting other Sims. Not my thing. But the clerk, when I mentioned that, said that I didn't have to play that way. So, I got it and immediately fell in love with the game. I also got so involved on the official forum (helping with building computers and with gameplay) that the day that TS2 started, I was made a SimMaster. (SimMaster Anubis.) And I've loved every version of The Sims since then! I'm currently having a blast with TS4. I occasionally play TS3 but very quickly go back to TS4, wondering why I bothered trying TS3 again.

I'm in my 70's, so I have all of you beat. I got started about 20 years ago.

In my mid 40's, been playing for 22 years - the original Sims game was one of 3 or 4 games that I bought when I got my first non-mac computer -looked to good to pass up and have kept going - although a bit less with this iteration.

I'm 52 and my simming journey began with SimAnt (on an Amiga) in the early 90s, followed shortly by SimCity. I've been playing The Sims (on Windows) since the first one.