Have you ever felt judged or discriminated based on your age?

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Cookie Roma Profile
Cookie Roma answered

Sure.  At 63, I see it from time to time. Sometime (in the eyes of some) you become invisible. 

PJ Stein Profile
PJ Stein answered

Sure I have. At this stage of the game it is by the teens who think that because I am a few decades older than them I don't understand what it is like to be a teenager. (I survived that stage of my life so I do know what it is like.) 

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otis campbell
otis campbell commented
Hey u listen to better music
PJ Stein
PJ Stein commented
I just read that 43 years ago yesterday, Pink Floyd released The Darkside of the Moon. It doesn't get much more iconic than that. I think it is ranked 3rd for top sellling albums, behind Back in Black and Thriller.
Maurice Korvo Profile
Maurice Korvo answered

I am discriminated due to age, but it is not negative or discrimination against me, Rather it is positive discrimination. When I reached 65 years, I could start asking.. " Do you have senior rates?" or "My wife and I are seniors, could you bump us up from coach to business or first class?" Its great!!! saves us money.

Mahnoor Ali Khan Yousufzai Profile

Yes! When I'm with people older than my age. But after sometime they come to know me!

Ray Dart Profile
Ray Dart answered

Fifteen years ago, after a series of interviews and all the right noises from the company, I failed to get a job with Fuji, when I was (and we both knew I was) the best-qualified man in the whole of the UK.

Not difficult, it was in a very specialised field and I knew everyone else in it.

Oh well, perhaps they had found a gem somewhere whom I had not come across.

A few months later when doing an exhibition, jointly with Fuji, I met the chap, he was 15 years (at least) younger than me.

AND, he was lazy and stupid. Worse than that, he went into great detail on a number of occasions about the amount of pornography he had stored on his laptop. He would share this information with all and sundry, male and female, and expect us all to be impressed.

Fuji let him go after about 6 months, but they never re-advertised the position.

I can only think that the only reason he pipped me to the job in the first place was his age, he certainly had nothing else going for him.

Bitter? Me? :)

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Tyto, we had a regular traveller on the train who read the Boy Scout Manual every afternoon on the journey home. One of the regulars told me once how much she admired him for his dedication to helping the kids so I suggested that she walk down the carriage for a glass of water and peek over his shoulder. Sure enough, his real interest was sandwiched in between the pages of the scouting magazine.
Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

Interesting word, "discrimination."

Typically a negative connotation, but as they say, when my wife married me she discriminated against all other men---and I hope she continues to do so.

Being 70, it still brings a smile to my face when some clerk asks to see my ID---ostensibly to prove my age.  Lol

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