return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?message-squaremessage-square244fedilinkarrow-up1161arrow-down10
arrow-up1161arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square244fedilink
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 day agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours ago…huh. That’s kinda exciting, but I’m curious if that’s still accurate. …then again, I’m also hanging out at the bottom right now :p
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agohttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/national-institute-economic-review/article/happiness-and-ageresolving-the-debate/7E765E7E32A488E1FF5EE735039DD6C0
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoI think I’m mapping the negations of negations correctly - that link says not only is it still current, but seems to be very nearly universal?
minus-squarematthurtme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 hours agoThank you. This actually does help.
minus-squaremonotremata@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·18 hours agoI mean, redraw this graph as “happiness” vs “year of birth” and it’ll look way less optimistic!
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·24 hours agoThat about seems like the age you start truly internalizing “Lol all these things they told me were important, aren’t. And I don’t care lol.” We have to spend so much time in that state of dissonance, deprogramming ourselves, realizing their best interests are not in ours.
minus-squareDr. Bob@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·24 hours agoSo dementia sets in around 42??!???!
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 hours agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-223 hours agodeleted by creator
I’ve got good news for you!

…huh. That’s kinda exciting, but I’m curious if that’s still accurate.
…then again, I’m also hanging out at the bottom right now :p
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/national-institute-economic-review/article/happiness-and-ageresolving-the-debate/7E765E7E32A488E1FF5EE735039DD6C0
I think I’m mapping the negations of negations correctly - that link says not only is it still current, but seems to be very nearly universal?
Correct
Thank you. This actually does help.
I mean, redraw this graph as “happiness” vs “year of birth” and it’ll look way less optimistic!
That about seems like the age you start truly internalizing “Lol all these things they told me were important, aren’t. And I don’t care lol.”
We have to spend so much time in that state of dissonance, deprogramming ourselves, realizing their best interests are not in ours.
So dementia sets in around 42??!???!
I’ve got good news for you!

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