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Is it possible for your brain to quit growing mentally? Still growing in its intelligence, but stop growing in age. I.E. you feel 21 for 3 years.

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RNMSN says

hahaha Whitney!!!!! our son, David Wyatt, was nine years old when he told me "MOM! You can't be seventeen this year! You were seventeen LAST year!" :)

I swear until meano balankety blank pause thats how I not only felt but looked...now I feel oh thirty something but when I look in the mirror? I say "Hey Momma! Whatcha doing in there?" before remembering oh thats ME!

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Is it possible for your brain to quit growing mentally? Still growing in its intelligence, but stop growing in age....

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Real Estate Lady says

Not only is it possible, it happens all the time! I'm in my fifties and my brain got left behind somewhere in my 30's. All of my friends who are my age feel the same way. My father, who is nearing 80, says he looks in the mirror and says "How did that old fart get in there?" He still feels like he's in his 30's.

A trick of nature, I guess.

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