Seeing some 40 year olds online speak like 20-30 year olds (only finding out their age after forming my impressions of them) broke an illusion I had about what 40 year olds are like. Now, I expect to feel relatively more like my current self.
As another example, a 45 year old I’ve known for my whole life recently told me they took a stupid amount of weed due to a silly implicit belief about the bioavailability of the delivery method. My response: “Color me shocked, you’re pretending to be a teenager!”
Clearly my impression of old people has been filtered by the image they wish to present more than my impression of the young and by media portrayals—probably due to a lack of older friends.
Seeing some 40 year olds online speak like 20-30 year olds (only finding out their age after forming my impressions of them) broke an illusion I had about what 40 year olds are like. Now, I expect to feel relatively more like my current self.
As another example, a 45 year old I’ve known for my whole life recently told me they took a stupid amount of weed due to a silly implicit belief about the bioavailability of the delivery method. My response: “Color me shocked, you’re pretending to be a teenager!”
Clearly my impression of old people has been filtered by the image they wish to present more than my impression of the young and by media portrayals—probably due to a lack of older friends.