I'd have to think about it for a while... somewhere around 44-45 I think. I was at a skateboard park skateboarding with my son... and I was clearly going to crash after dropping in on one of those darn metal ramps they put in little parks. I decided to bail and run it out... quickly realized there was no way I was as fast as I used to be... and in the resultant wipeout, broke my right elbow.

I skateboarded 24/7 as a teen in the 70s and never broke anything! And now I break my right arm despite landing on my left side!?!?! Even the young orthopedic doc made a comment like "This radial head fracture is a very common break in older patients!"

Older?

OLDER!?!?!!

A few months later, first time back on a board at a different park... an embarrassingly mild wipe out and I cracked or broke something in my left wrist! I never got that one x-rayed, but something was definitely messed up. (Scared of the wifes response if it was broken!)

Suddenly I was too old to skateboard... too brittle AND fat... very frustrating and sad.

I'd say 40 was bad for me. It was right around then I found I had to give up many of the vices I'd become so fond of through my twenties and thirties. That entire decade was hard for me in terms of having to grow up, but especially my early forties - before I learned not to take myself so seriously.

Not sad but strange. My Dad died at 50 and turning 50 and being older than my father was weird initially?

I didn’t feel like an adult until I reach 28–no clue why, since I had a 2 year old by then. After that, I Havent thought about my age much at all. I’m sad that arthritis is kicking into a few joints, but otherwise, I’m still kicking around and have no age-related complaints.

Thirty was a toughie for me. Now that I will be 62 in two months, I look back at how upset I was over turning thirty, and I just laugh.

Actually I have not. I'm 71 and age is just a number. I have a friend that lamented forever the fact that he turned 40. I thought it was funny. My take on age might be because I've been down the marriage road 4 times now. Two were younger and two were older. I feel like I have lived a very long life because of this, but I'm not ready to leave yet. Life is but a movie in which I have played many parts along with many other people.

When I was coming up on my 30th bday I was worried about it but when it actually happened it didn’t bother me. I’m 44 now and the last year I’ve noticed it feels like everyday there’s a new line on my face. The thing that really makes me feel old though is thinking about how much of my youngest daughter’s (7) future I’ll miss.

Not regrets, I have a back injury and it limits me. When I was younger was very physical. Had energy and stamina that was hard to match. At about 33 they discovered that have progressive disc disease. Slowed me down. Back then a 20 mile hike to bear rock was nothing.

Today I turned 35 and it sucks. I feel about 60 physically (I've broke a ridiculously large amount of bones) at least I don't look that old. Also I want to have kids before I get too old and my male biological clock is ticking like a motherf*cker.

When I turned 28 I was sad because I genuinely thought I turned 28 the year before and had to figure out how old I was and that that might be the first sign I am getting old

Most of my 20's through early 30's were awful. I was clinically depressed with social anxiety for most of that time and have large gaps in my memory. So glad that's long past.

I remember my 1st bought of melancholia. It was a feeling that swept over me inexplicably out of the blue as I sat on a step outside the Lutheran daycare where my parents took me while they worked. I was 10.

I remember turning 21 and thinking 24 was old. ha...ha
So for me really more about physical "milestones", busting butt down stairs, the change. I never cared about being carded, always thought it weird. They'll card you up here when you're 80. It's so dumb.

30 Major lelt down,lasted 7 years,
pity it took me 7 years to learn I was wasting my life worrying about being over 30.

WHEN I TURNED 60! I had many health problems to go along with that age, but it rang my bell!

It was when I was 49 in 2000. (I lied a bit about my age on here in case anyone's checking)

Always thought I wouldn't actually be old by then.

Never expected to live this long.

I just turned 57. It has been really bothering me that I’m growing old alone. I have no idea how to date anymore. Even my best friend has a boyfriend now. They live in the same retirement community. I hate the way I’m feeling about myself these days. Maybe if I could figure out how to get rid of my resting bitch face life would be different.

I turn 21 in a few months, so I’ll finally be an “adult.” Yay?

50 - no doubt about it 50. Too old to get a new job at the pay you are getting if laid off or quit - you realize you have to ride that horse until either the horse or you drop dead. Stuck like a butterfly on a pinning board. As well, at about 50 - the body begins its slow decline - that which was phsically easy at age 40 -- not so easy -- and it only gets harder.

On the other hand -- all of the above is beatable -- you might just get to 60 and have a real retirement - then you can take your time and start a 2nd life -- modern medicine is a godsend to growing old (think Viagra). You'll never be 28 again, but you won't be a washed up shell of yourself!

I'm 81. Reaching a particular age ever made me sad. Still, getting old is a process of having to give up things that give up things which were central to your life -- sports, driving, recreational walking, reading, and more. We just have to learn to adapt and to make our goals more immediate ones, easier to fulfill.

Believe it or not, 12. 12 was it for me.

I was 3 years old when existential dread kicked in. It was all downhill from there.

I'm turning 30, and I'm wondering if I should feel bad about it or not.

I threw up in front of everyone at six.

That was bad.

I'll be a little sad when I hit age "dead".

I think when I turned 40. The grey hairs really started kicking in then..