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  • Math like that is really simple if you take it in easy chunks.

    For example, to calc your age, just take the years from birthday to 2000 (11) and add it to the years since 2000 (23). 11 + 23 = 34.

    Best part is the first calc never changes - so if you remember thst number it's just like having a 2000 birthday. Just add 11.

    • But I'm only 33! So part of the challenge is also remembering what day it is today lol

  • I thought I had it easy. Born in 1990. 2022? I'm 32. 2023? I'm 33.

    But now I am married. Dec 2019. So it's always hard to calculate how many years.

    And to add to it. My daughter is born Nov 2021.

    Good luck to anyone that asks me how old she is. You gotta wait until I count on all my fingers.

    • I have a daughter who is 6 and a son who is 4. So when people ask what year they are born I need to try and do reverse math.

  • Yeah it's hard to calculate when reality sets in. There's also a bit of reluctance from me as a lot of expectations follow me when I reveal my age even when I don't look like how old I am. It's like suddenly you feel that you are not so welcome in some conversations any more or people keep you out of their circles because they presume that you don't fit in.

    I've gotten way past that and while realising that my body isn't what it was physically 20 years ago, I'm treating age as just a number and if one has a problem with that, it's really their problem not mine 🙂

    And by the way, I was born in 1971.

  • Try 77 sometime. The only reason I knew my mom's age is she was born in 57. Occasionally I'd even have to work the other way to figure out how old I was!

    My kids were exactly 18 months apart, same day, one in 1999 and one in 2001. Math made (mostly) easy, baby.

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