return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agoWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?message-squaremessage-square252linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agomessage-square252linkfedilink
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days 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-up0·10 days agoSo dementia sets in around 42??!???!
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days 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-up0·10 days agohttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/national-institute-economic-review/article/happiness-and-ageresolving-the-debate/7E765E7E32A488E1FF5EE735039DD6C0
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days 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-up0·10 days agoThank you. This actually does help.
minus-squaremonotremata@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoI mean, redraw this graph as “happiness” vs “year of birth” and it’ll look way less optimistic!
I’ve got good news for you!
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!
…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!