I’m 53 years old. I’m 36 in my head. - The Atlantic

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There are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 15:34 T his past Thanksgiving , I asked my mother how old she was in her head. She didn’t pause, didn’t look up, didn’t even ask me to repeat the question, which would have been natural, given that it was both syntactically awkward and a little odd. We were in my brother’s dining room, setting the table. My mother folded another napkin. “Forty-five,” she said. She is 76. Explore the April 2023 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More Why do so many people have an immediate, intuitive grasp of this highly abstract concept —“subj

I’m 53 years old. I’m 36 in my head. - The Atlantic

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