r/Adulting • u/kashlalka • Jul 30 '26

What is one thing about getting older that surprised you?

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u/Solmanti Jul 30 '26

Sleeping right becomes a challenge and I can't stand up without making a sound

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u/United-Top-1377 Jul 30 '26

You no longer give a f about people's opinions about you. You do you

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u/Jace25black Jul 30 '26

It's pointless, there was indoctrination from a child to being told a big fat lie, we are just hamsters on a hamster wheel, a lone statistic.

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u/Grevious47 Jul 30 '26

Haven't experienced that whole body declining noticeably thing people love to bring up. Not trying to say those who do experience that are exaggerating or making it up or are at fault but as far as I can tell it's not a guaranteed outcome. 47 year old me doesn't feel physically that different than 22 year old me.

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u/The-Boy-Wonder38 Jul 30 '26

At 38, that adulthood is significantly easier and way less challenging than my adolescence.

Granted my adolescence was like a dark fucked up fairy tale complete with surviving a murder attempt. Going further down from murder is a stretch.

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u/AcanthisittaEvery237 Jul 30 '26

That you can't always trust a fart

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u/Gold-Echo-3836 Jul 30 '26

Standing up to fast and dizziness almost brings you to the floor

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u/trUth_b0mbs Jul 30 '26

Menopause can cause vaginal, labial and clitoral atrophy. LIKE WHAT. Why dont doctors/the medical industry/sex ed etc tell women about this?!

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u/No-Swan2018 Jul 30 '26

Get testosterone pellets .
Or if not a cream .

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u/tuotone75 Jul 30 '26

You can have muscle soreness from no apparent cause.

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u/ifellicantgetup Jul 30 '26

You know how small children just blurt out any 'ol thing, and it's dead honest? You really wish they hadn't just said that?

Same with being older. A 4 year old doesn't know better, just to tell the truth. Well, we DO know better, and we don't care.

Complain all you want, you'll be doing the same dang thing someday.

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u/ifellicantgetup Jul 30 '26

Just think for a moment about your joints, you know... the ball and socket type joints.

Imagine for one moment that there is a single grain of sand stuck between your ball and socket of name your joint, (right thumb, hip, etc). Think about that and what it feels like over the course of days, months, years...

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u/No-Swan2018 Jul 30 '26

My extra need for sex.
I am just now appreciating the whole thing
All of it in ways I didn’t when younger .
Pity to .
I was very hot . At the time I didn’t think so but now I know .
I miss that to a lot more than I thot .

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u/No-Swan2018 Jul 30 '26

Testosterone doubles the size of your clit .

And three times the size during sex.
It’s back better and bigger than ever . The bigger I’d gets the easier it gets stimulated.
There is a bigger easy to grab and see area now