Diamond Teenagers

[cloughie]

I think this idea came to me when recently as a result of covid 19. I was completing a ‘how did we do’ type form on line as a result of a click and collect from Argos. There was a section which asked for whether Elderly, Disabled, At risk etc and decided that of the options elderly was possibly true but I dislike considering myself as such - I probably look it, occasionally physically feel it but mentally - no - nobody told me I had to ‘grow up’. So a Diamond Teenager I will be for the next few years. Definition - A person who has reached the 60th anniversary of becoming a teenager, at the age of 73 and up to the eve of their 80th Birthday.

[Count Boso]

I think this idea came to me when recently as a result of covid 19. I was completing a ‘how did we do’ type form on line as a result of a click and collect from Argos. There was a section which asked for whether Elderly, Disabled, At risk etc and decided that of the options elderly was possibly true but I dislike considering myself as such - I probably look it, occasionally physically feel it but mentally - no - nobody told me I had to ‘grow up’. So a Diamond Teenager I will be for the next few years. Definition - A person who has reached the 60th anniversary of becoming a teenager, at the age of 73 and up to the eve of their 80th Birthday.

That's a nice idea! (I'm a Diamond Elderly).

[eighthobstruction]

I think this idea came to me when recently as a result of covid 19. I was completing a ‘how did we do’ type form on line as a result of a click and collect from Argos. There was a section which asked for whether Elderly, Disabled, At risk etc and decided that of the options elderly was possibly true but I dislike considering myself as such - I probably look it, occasionally physically feel it but mentally - no - nobody told me I had to ‘grow up’. So a Diamond Teenager I will be for the next few years. Definition - A person who has reached the 60th anniversary of becoming a teenager, at the age of 73 and up to the eve of their 80th Birthday.

...it's kind of right and a good epiphet for sure....but in this case without my mother bringing me homemade lemonade and sardines on toast while i watch TV....

[DracoM]

<< So a Diamond Teenager I will be for the next few years. Definition - A person who has reached the 60th anniversary of becoming a teenager, at the age of 73 and up to the eve of their 80th Birthday. >>

LOVE it!! Yes, yes.

[LMcD]

...it's kind of right and a good epiphet for sure....but in this case without my mother bringing me homemade lemonade and sardines on toast while i watch TV....

I'm never quite sure when one becomes elderly. I was born towards the end of WW2 and I'm dreading middle age.

[eighthobstruction]

I'm never quite sure when one becomes elderly. I was born towards the end of WW2 and I'm dreading middle age.

....I'd love to still have the energy to spend hours and hours bowling a tennis ball at coal house door....trying to guage just how long it would be before a neighbours head would appear around the corner and say "Oi Tim"....and stop just before that happened.....BLISS....[and all laundry washed and ironed as if by magic]....

[BBMmk2]

When I was in hospital beginning of last month, because I’m 64, I was admitted to an elderly ward!! I mean?!?!?

[cloughie]

When I was in hospital beginning of last month, because I’m 64, I was admitted to an elderly ward!! I mean?!?!?

...but they still needed and fed you!

[oddoneout]

When I was in hospital beginning of last month, because I’m 64, I was admitted to an elderly ward!! I mean?!?!?

Unless it's been rethought in recent years, women having first babies at 35 and beyond are classed as 'elderly primigravida' - an alternative term I saw was 'advanced maternal age'. May be medically accurate but doesn't do much for those on the receiving end, particularly now that babies arriving later in life are becoming the norm rather than the exception.

[LMcD]

...but they still needed and fed you!

... followed by a period of convalescence in a cottage on the Isle of Wight during the summer, perhaps?

[Dave2002]

Unless it's been rethought in recent years, women having first babies at 35 and beyond are classed as 'elderly primigravida' - an alternative term I saw was 'advanced maternal age'. May be medically accurate but doesn't do much for those on the receiving end, particularly now that babies arriving later in life are becoming the norm rather than the exception.

It was around 31 in 1979-80.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It was around 31 in 1979-80.

I remember a work colleague being described as such at the age of 28, much to her horror!

[Dai Cottomy]

I remember a work colleague being described as such at the age of 28, much to her horror!

"What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw

[Serial_Apologist]

"What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw

My mother was aged 40 when I came into the world, following at least three miscarriages - which was late. The first thing she did was check I had all twenty toes and fingers!