#gerascophobia

[hathaway-hayes]

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Somewhere -

There’s an old man not so silently Grinding his teeth Whilst rocking on his porch

Seeking a seventh-day constellation In a six day week.

And at some point -

He mumbles, he swears it’s there like: The rainy-day money stored In a book long forgotten.

Maybe it’s in Xian.

Maybe it’s in Denver.

Maybe it’s in Mom’s cooking.

It’s definitely in antiquity, A grief on every other Wednesday, now, And wish for the gray to go away.

- Hathaway Hayes (2024)

#writerscreed #twcpoetry #poeticstories #poetryportal #burningmuses #writtenconsiderations #spilled ink #writingthestorm #poem #poetry #poet #poets on tumblr #writer #author #writers on tumblr #aging #fear #dementia #Gerascophobia

[in-sufficientdata]

I'm 42 and just finally worked out my being agender "counts" despite having little desire to do anything to stop being perceived as a woman.

I have a close high school friend who just came out this year and is beginning to transition.

You, dear reader, have so much time.

I say this as someone with some wicked gerascophobia – even if you're afraid of getting older, even if it terrifies you, there's so much time.

NPR recently published this article about aging that I believe would help us all:

To tl;dr the article's premise, your attitude toward aging is the best predictor of your outcome.

If you see each day as a new opportunity, a chance to grow and change, the time will be more rewarding. And that's not to say I don't still struggle!

The thing I have spent the longest in my life, back when I believed in a deity, crying and praying long into the nights, was about being terrified to one day turn 30. And now I'm 42.

At first still being alive after 30 felt like borrowed time, but it's really not that.

It's a chance to live the life I want to live. I'm trying to make the most of it.

Heck knows sometimes I fail at it. But at least I'm here to try.

#mine #gerascophobia #aging #mental health #mental kind of stuf #news #current events #npr #transition #transgender #agender #lgbtq #reposting everything from my twitter feed #i'm about to delete everything so get it while it's hot #tweet: 2022 #molly's mad life

[crumbleclub]

i think i've upgraded from a fear of growing old to a fear of the passage of time in general

#AND a fear of growing old #actually #a fear of growing oldER #im too young to rent a car and i already feel like my entire life has been wasted fhsjdjfk #gerascophobia #chronophobia

[spiritguru-sloppypears]

Fear of Growing Up (Partial vent) /ys

(Tone indicator "ys" - means "you're safe.")

CW: gerascophobia - fear of growing/aging

Inspo/traced from - a Wreck-It Ralph textpost with Vanellope trying to escape from Sugar Rush, but can't leave the game.

A little something with a 15-year-old Pan (in the bg, behind the photos) and 4-year-old Guest Star (GS is currently 15). May make a non-traced GS in the future.

Mainly represents the fear of growing up and my extreme desire to go back in time.

I DON'T WANT TO GROW UP. I WANT TO REVISIT MY MEMORIES AND STAY THERE FOREVER. MOVING TO DIFFERENT TIMES EXCEPT THE PRESENT.

#partial vent #cw vent #cw gerascophobia #gerascophobia #object show #object show oc #object shows #object oc #algebralien #algebralien oc #algebraliens humanized #xfohv humanized #wreck it ralph #vanellope von schweetz #text post

[until--i--disappear]

I can't stand the fact that I'm not the sickest in the psych ward. Nor the thinnest. And not anymore the youngest.

#This girl is depriving me of all the attentions. #gerascophobia #personal;

[darkerblue-core]

genuinely, i think the view of age online contributed 2 my gerascophobia more than my actual trauma has. ppl calling young adults in their 20s + 30s old and acting like they shouldn't use social media rlly makes me feel like my life will b over by the time college is...

but then i look at my much older sister, my older cousins, my teachers. their lives don't seem over. apparently, studies say that people are happiest in their 60s. i hope that's true.

#gerascophobia #ageism #obviously ppl can set boundaries on interacting w ppl outside of their age range #thats not what im talking abt #but i see harassment ON PPLs BLOGS 4 being over 25 and having social media #like wtf

[batjokezlovineverything]

*me listening to life eternal by ghost* *also me* starts crying hysterically and thinking about when i was 4 y/o

#gerascophobia #fear of growing up #peter pan syndrome

[cluster-bi]

It's so scary, it's so terrifying, it hurts so badly and no one understands. No one takes it seriously. I search online for people like me, people who understand, and there's no one. There's no community for this. There's no help for this. There's no hope. There's nothing but a deep, dark, terrifying, gaping hole ready to swallow me up.

#gerascophobia #rambling

[ghost-pipes]

need to live my teenage dream before i get old and gross but i'm running out of time :( idk how to meet fun people i'm such a hermit

#bitching #vent #jirai kei #gerascophobia #chronophobia

[theladwhoisweird]

Chronophobia (sprinkled with gerascophobia) is when you feel you would d'e the next day and this is your last time on earth but you're just turning 21 the day after.

p.s. this applies in every day before your birthday.

#chronophobia #gerascophobia #21st birthday #october birthday #October #turning 21 #over 21 #21+ only #coming of age into adulthood #adulthood is a scam #adulthood is hard #aging #true story #introverts #relatable #texting

[starlite-sin]

You’d think working in a casino and seeing very old people literally every day would help the  Gerascophobia but nooooo. It’s gotta be worse

#Gerascophobia

[crumbleclub]

the social standard for what adulthood is supposed to look like is so fucked up. i hate never seeing my friends and watching everyone i know work themselves to the bone without having any time for hobbies.

i think we should eat shitty fast food tacos at 3 am while telling stories outside instead

#like age itself is already weird for me just from trauma and system shit #so my own brain isn't probably going to register me as over like 19 even 50 years from now #but like. i don't think this is from that. i think this might just be an actual thing that sucks #gerascophobia #not fnaf

[sakura-arts]

Gerascophobia

#Gerascophobia #Art #Julie #Gerascophobia Julie #Child #little girl

[tapchitamlyhoc]

Hội chứng sợ già (Gerascophobia) thường gặp nhiều hơn ở phụ nữ và có thể khiến họ trở nên hoang mang tột độ nếu phát hiện trên làn da có những nếp nhăn, đốm nâu hay khi thấy đau lưng, đau đầu.. Những người này cũng có xu hướng lạm dụng làm đẹp hay chăm sóc sức khỏe một cách thái quá để tránh khỏi mọi dấu hiệu quả tuổi tác.

#tamlyhoc #gerascophobia #hoichungsogia

[thanatophobia-thoughts]

Some humor on aging and old people -- with explanations for things like the “smell” and hard candies. 

#death anxiety #death anxiety talk #Gerascophobia #aging #old age #old people #humor #cracked

[darkerblue-core]

little breakthrough moment happened!

ok so, i have gerascophobia (fear of growing old) and i think part of it is bc i'm worried nobody cares abt the suffering of ppl after they're not young anymore.

i used 2 have daydreams abt someone coming 2 rescue me and take care of me when i was a little kid, and once i aged out of that being a possibility i kind of panicked. im still a college kid who's seen as young and worth sympathy 4 now, but the way the internet treats ppl over, like 25, makes me feel like the clock is ticking on my worth as a person, even tho that's absurd, and that everything from then onwards will b lonely and scary and my cptsd will become irrelevant 2 everyone the moment i don't look like the hurt kid i've been 4 my entire existence so far.

does anyone else have a similar experience? or like words of wisdom?

#it's further complicated by me presenting pretty masc #bc of socialization of those percieved as men 2b pretty cold 2 each other #and others might b more cold 2 us bc of fear of gender based violence which makes sense #but like yeah #its rough 2 try and become a functional person when u never had a jumping off point of normal childhood experiences #which is why im supplementing with age dreaming but that's still solitary for me #i need 2 talk 2 more older people i think #humans need 2 learn from other humans #trauma #cptsd #gerascophobia #cptsd breakthrough