Buzz Feed Quizzes try to guess my age...

These quizzs devised by Buzzfeed and random other providers of procrastination devices are hilarious.

In today's quiz my emotional age was determined as being 74...which is just a few decades older than I currently am...

Last week my maturity level was deemed to be 22!  Errr....as I said on facebook, I'm very grown up. Sometimes...

A few weeks before that, in an attempt to guess who I was, I appeared to be mid-thirties...which is closer...but still off.

I remember being horrified when one of the first 'guess my age' quizzes put me as an actual teenager...but that's before I saw the very range of results.

I find it fascinating that a whole heap of psychological research has gone into summing people up from their reaction to 10-20 questions and/or pictures.  And on occasions they are spot on.

But I guess the above information, when compiled, does sum me up: I'm pretty wise, except for when I'm behaving like a teenager.  I'm clearly in the merging 30s-40s bracket and my closest friends span both age groups.  I adhere to childlike innocence and wonder and cling fiercely to my unjaded sense of optimism. And I'm pretty settled in who I am.

The net result is people nearly always underestimate my age, even after adding years on after hearing the age of my children.  I'm good with this as despite being ridiculously honest and always apprising people of my correct age...often to gasps of amazement (long let that continue...) I like that I haven't given in to any reduction of functioning or life enjoyment just because I'm a certain age. I like that my daughter's teenage friends find me cool and approachable, and have even been known to compliment my appearance and hair styles :-). I like that I'm actively battling unnecessary age related health issues, but in a natural and healthy way. I'm thoroughly enjoying my forties, and feel I'm probably at my most attractive and dynamic.  That many people's attitudes don't equate those qualities to my age group is absolutely not my problem!

At least these quizzes are always spot on when gauging my emotional type....big hearted all the way <3.