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In reply to the discussion: Why is ageism suddenly all the rage on DU? [View all]Blanks
(4,835 posts)Your joints ache, you aren't as flexible (emotionally, psychologically or physically).
Young people piss you off and there's no repercussions for snapping at them. Your eyesight sucks (oddly there's NEVER enough light) and when people mumble - it just sounds like pops and buzzes (very annoying, makes old people crankier).
For some reason when us old people (and I'm only in my early 50's) are cranky - the youngsters find that off-putting.
Go figure. Mostly (at least lately around here) it's that whole flexibility thing that annoys the youth - some of geriatric folk around here yearn for the good old days of the Roosevelt administration (which they weren't around for) and won't believe you when you tell them that the Great Depression was not the good old days.
That's just my opinion, but I've noticed the 'ageism' trend myself.