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When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I’m labeled senile.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Here the speaker jokes that the same behavior keeps getting new labels as the years pass: admired as rugged independence in youth, tolerated as eccentricity in middle age, dismissed as senility now. The humor is that nothing changed but the audience's expectations of age.
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