If you are asking it trying to get a sense of how other people view that age, you might want to assist with who are the people around you that are in the same age bracket and think about each of them when they are with you. How's do they act, so they do anything childish. Do they seem different from how they were 4 years ago
I think you are a young person at that age. I'm 20 years older than you.
When i was your age, 911 happened. The world did not feel nearly as complex as your first 5 years as an adult have been.
How old you feel can change on a lot of things but man you have had to deal with a lot in those last few years and today is a bigger wtf Than the last 4 years, even before that COVID you had to deal with the first Trump administration (assuming you are in America) so where have you got to live with the I'm a young adult starting out in the world mindset? It has felt like one looming that after another.
Unless you are one of those that have been able to turn your brain off and not pay attention to the world around you, i have great sympathy for young adults like you. I think you are going to be the generation that defines the future, it might take another 30 years but you and others your age are going to have some strong opinions when you get into positions of leadership and i think it will be great for everyone when you get there.
You feel old, but i promise you that you aren't old, that's just exhaustion from life and maybe it's the way generations are getting shorter.
Tech is where the world has been since the dot.com bubble and it reshaped the world. You were born at the beginning of a line of demarcation in history. I was born in in the pocket before that where the people that taught me didn't grow up in a world that looks like today.
The Internet in your pocket is a new era and you are going to be one of the people that defines what modern humans are.
Products of an environment that changes every 6 months.
You are probably starting to see the world looking at people younger than you in a way you have never felt before, the bandits of DOGE are younger than you.
The highest paid athletes are starting to be younger than you
You are cruising through a threshold that might be hard to grasp.
But you are not old.
Not to me or many other people
If it bothers you know that how old someone comes across as really isn't related to your physical age.
You can continue to think of yourself as a young woman for a while yet, but you still likely never stop feeling younger than your actual age. I know people 15 years older than me that act younger than i feel.
Not all, but a big enough number of women have told me 26 is when they stopped feeling like a kid, but many people have a concern with not being in their 20s, it really doesn't mean much i promise you that you can feel great about your age no matter what it is and that the challenges in life that you need to solve for, and the solutions you need to use, are what make us feel younger or older than you are