The way my brain works:

[heathermj@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay
I think my brain works the same way

[peterpractice@toot.community]

@Natasha_Jay Mine: anything that happened in the past is “recently”. I must be older than you.

[btuftin@social.coop]

@Natasha_Jay I was born in '75 and have the same scale, but today I experienced a weird reversal when someone mentioned a car being over 50 years old and I immediately thought "oh, so the eighties". I hope it's not a brain tumor.

[ellenb@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay I see nothing wrong here.

[mercurial@todon.nl]

@Natasha_Jay a lot of the time I’ll just randomly write 2012

[dusk@todon.eu]

@Natasha_Jay

Fair. Time is weird.

I recall the duration of 2020 feeling like many years.

[boxofawesome@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay Everything checks out here xD

[stevenray@sfba.social]

@Natasha_Jay sounds about right.

I won't ask about 2017

[chickpeapole@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay Finally an accurate representation of how time actually works!

[exkclamation@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay

[asweetgentleman@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay Are you suggesting there's another way to think of that?

[strange_new_words@tenforward.social]

@Natasha_Jay ... and last week was 100 years ago.

[thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales]

@Natasha_Jay Accurate.

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@Natasha_Jay

Ooh, yeah. I'm just a few years older than you, and this tallies.

But, getting serious for a moment, external things seem more recent than more personal things. Marvelling at the blossom on the flowering cherry trees on the street where I grew up — that feels more timeless, and therefore more recent, than my mother kneeling down and asking if I knew which year it was, because she passed away decades ago and I'm not the little boy I was then.

[sknob@mamot.fr]

@Natasha_Jay 100% accurate
@herr_irrtum

[krnlg@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay
I typed a date this year as 2024 today..

[askpippa@c.im]

@Natasha_Jay It's amazing how often "we did that last year" was actually 9 or 10 years ago.
And "just a couple of years ago" is actually about 15-20 years ago.

[askpippa@c.im]

@Natasha_Jay @RachelThornSub The year 2000 was soooo far away from 1974. But 1974 was, what, about 20 years ago?

[abominabledrh@mastodon.ie]

@Natasha_Jay What? It's 1975, isn't it??

[robchapman@ohai.social]

@Natasha_Jay seems about right