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What not to say to an older person |
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By: agate Date: August 29, 2025, 11:15 am |
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As an older person maybe I'm just getting too thin-skinned. |
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However, ageism seems to be real, at least here in the US, in |
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spite of all of the lip-service being given to "our seniors." |
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The public transit system in my community even has a status |
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called Honored Citizen for people over a certain age (who get a |
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slight discount on transportation). |
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Honored Citizen? How honored is it whenever you make a comment, |
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you're apt to be told (with a gentle laugh because the person is |
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trying to be kind), "Oh, that's not how things are now" or |
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"You're talking about ages ago." |
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What is this really saying? If you keep hearing it, as I do, |
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doesn't it amount to saying, "You might be an amusing old fossil |
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but your contributions to this discussion are just laughable and |
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of no value to those of us who have moved with the times. Get |
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lost"? |
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I like to think I never made this kind of remark to any older |
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person when I was younger. But it's amazing how many people like |
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to show how youthful and trendy they are by replying to me in |
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this vein. |
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OK, you're up to the minute. I'm not. If you find what I have to |
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say to be laughably out of touch with the world as it now is, |
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why not silently move on and ignore me? Why is there a need to |
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remind me of how remote from reality I am at my age? |
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