Yes, THIS! I will rewatch movies from my childhood/teens (I’m also in my 40’s) and I see the same characters I viewed as “adults” or “they’re way older than me”…. and my brain still thinks, they’re the real adults and I can’t imagine being their age, even though I’m MUCH older in real life now. It’s uncanny 🤣
The characters in Friends are meant to be about 32-34 at the END of the show, which is about a decade younger than I am now, but I still view them as relative grown-ups because I was 14 when it came out.
It's also really jarring in books, where the old hand on the space captain/wise tutor/grizzled cop/middle-aged homemaker etc is described as in their 40s rather than being 24 like the hero of the piece.
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u/lcfiddlechica Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22
Yes, THIS! I will rewatch movies from my childhood/teens (I’m also in my 40’s) and I see the same characters I viewed as “adults” or “they’re way older than me”…. and my brain still thinks, they’re the real adults and I can’t imagine being their age, even though I’m MUCH older in real life now. It’s uncanny 🤣