Anthea Turner

It wasn’t because I looked any different to the day before and I didn’t feel like I had changed, but I noticed that the world had changed towards me. Overnight, I was aware of people in their 60s being categorised in a negative way. For instance, my dad, who is still going strong at the age of 90, sent me a picture of my mum and we were trying to work out what birthday she was celebrating. He said, ‘It was an old one, she must have been in her 60s’. When you age, you do start to feel invisible because you’re categorised. It’s as though you’ve parted from the crowd, from young people, and are now in the “autumn” of your life, or, as the Japanese call it, your “second spring”,