Why do older people always make jokes about being old? do they find it genuinely funny or are they using it as a coping mechanism?

[Anonymous]

[Joshua_H_1010011001]

Because old people don't care.

Your young, every day that gose by your older, less attractive, less time to have babies blah blah. Pressure.

When your older, you've experienced losing some things that you can't get back, and realise you probably dint appreciate them when you had it. But equally nothing you can do now and need to move forward... Shit happens and life goes on if your happy about it or not.

So if you can't laugh about it, WTF are you even bothering breathing for... make light of things, enjoy/respect them when you have them, and remember them when it's gone.

That's why old people joke about getting old, it's a privilege, enjoy life.

[DrPepper12]

Coping
Self deprecating humor
Dry wit / sarcasm
Acknowledgement of life as farce

[Niscgsgs]

It’s soemthing happening to them and they notice it. Maybe it’s the at they’re putting too much undue focus on it

[hahahmm]

Depends on the individual. And imagine if 5 year olds had a great vocabulary and could talk to you the way you do to older people... you might say to the 5 year old, "I'm 20s now... not the same as when I was 5." Blah, blah. It's factual. But the 5 year old may try to read other meanings into it.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Do you fear aging? Is that why you ask?

[exitseven]

being old is no laughing matter.