The things said from a squishy-cheeked face with the most innocent toothless smile can hurt surprisingly bad.
Things like "you're 18, how come you're unmarried, what's wrong with you?" Oh, the toothless things I was talking about are children, not talking frogs from the cursed forest–this is real life and real adults' egos get bruised when kids try guessing their age.
Twitter user @msdanifernandez helped to collect many of these Shakespearean (and not so sophisticated ones, let's be honest here) insults into one place, and we selected the best/worst for you to laugh at.
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Understandably, senescence is a hard thing to cope with, especially after puberty. Some works of fiction sharpen the emotional effect by portraying sudden aging as the main event, such as Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, or M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 film Old. However, there are real-life conditions causing premature aging. Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, sometimes nicknamed Benjamin Button disease, is one of them.
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