[nprateem]

I decided a year or two ago that I have 2 ages, my chronological age and my biological age. I feel and tell people the latter, which is about 5 years younger than my chronological age. It really does make a difference and I feel younger. I refuse to accept the stereotypes of my age group. When a birthday comes round I decide whether to increase my biological age. I see this as no different to people who choose their gender based on how they feel.

[resu_nimda]

The other day I was thinking about whether acceptance of transgender people should or would extend to trans-race people. I considered the concept of "trans-age" as well. If some things we previously considered to be biologically defined and immutable are now seen as more fluid, seems like the future is to extend that to all parts of our identities. Especially with things like VR, genetic engineering, more advanced surgical and chemical procedures...

[nprateem]

Exactly. Ageism is as negative as any other stereotype. I completely believe that if you hit a certain age and start to believe you're old your body and mind will respond to create that experience, and vice versa.

[Hermel]

It’s still lying.

[feanaro]

Is it important?

[Broken_Hippo]

Honestly, yes, to a point. If I hired someone and found out they lied about their age, I couldn't trust them again. If I were dating someone, I'd leave. I'd never trust the person again because the age is such a silly thing to lie about and I'd assume that their speech is riddled with other untruths.

[naasking]

> If I hired someone and found out they lied about their age, I couldn't trust them again.

Why is their age relevant? You might as well ask about their favourite sexual position. Would you expect them to answer that question honestly?

If not, why is does one dishonest answer warrant suspicion but the other does not? Probably because the age question feels "innocuous", but clearly it's not as it not only appears to measurably affects physiology, it definitely affects career prospects in some fields.

[feanaro]

This is especially well put, thank you.

[giardini]

I think you're lying!8-)) If she was attractive enough you'd find an excuse, grin and bear it!

[Broken_Hippo]

Unfortunately, probably not. Most women, unfortunately, aren't attracted to other women so I'd probably not get the chance. Sometimes I'm happy to be bi so I'm not as limited as folks limited to a single sex, though I could do without the discrimination.

[TomMarius]

Actually biological clock can be measured and indeed can differ by quite a lot of years.

[adrianN]

"Measured" with pretty large error bars. As far as I know we don't have all that many reliable markers that predict remaining lifespan.

[TomMarius]

Nowadays, we have a few. I am watching /r/longevity for news of relevant research, if you're interested.

> remaining lifespan

Not remaining, but lived through