I have some experience with this already. I have not really aged in the last 20 years, kind of like Stacey Dash. People are shocked to learn that she’s ~44 now. I get the same reaction. I make no effort to hide my age, and will tell it when asked, much to the horror of one of my older sisters, who believes that there is still age discrimination in the world, especially in my business (I’m a writer looking to sell a couple of TV pilots), and that it’s worse for women.
What I’ve found that’s weird is if I carry on as I do, I give advice and talk about what I remember from the 70s and 80s at times. I get very strange looks. I remember talking with some younger people recently about having to sit in a car in a very long queue waiting for gas in my aunt’s car at SuperAmerica gas station when I was a little girl and they’ll ask, “Oh, when was that?” and l said, “1973. I had just turned 4. There was a gas shortage that summer”, and their jaws dropped as they did the math.
Actually, the same thing happens when I’m around people my age and up as well, but they get over their reactions quicker. Younger people will go on and on about it, which can get annoying. People who were born in the late 80s and early 90s, especially, are very shocked. “You’re old enough to be my mom!” Yes. Yes I am, kid. “But you’re, like, young and hot-looking.” Yes. Yes I am, kid.
It is sometimes disturbing to me that I get seriously hit on by men who are old enough (or young enough, depending on your reckoning) to be my son. I have no desire to fool them that I’m in my early 20s, so I tell them right away what they’re dealing with; they should be free to make whatever choice they want in that regard, same as myself. I have no desire to date a 21 year old. Then again, the old adage that “if you remember wearing it once before, you shouldn’t wear it again when it comes back in style” doesn’t apply to me in the least. I can rock any outfit I want and not look silly.