Act Your Age! |
Tuesday May 01 2007
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I’m pondering this throw-away comment, something I’ve heard countless times before and never really thought about. What do we really mean when we say someone isn’t ‘acting their age’? In effect, we’re judging whether their actions are ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’—as compared to the majority of people of that same chronological age in our society. But our assessments are neither true, nor false. They are simply our perspective, our evaluation, of what we perceive.[Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
Tagged with: age assessment behavior judgment possibility
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