When I was 24, my life was about to start a completely new direction, a big change... I spent half of it in Paris, France, the city I fell in love with. After being at the university for five years I tried for the first time to be on my own solely. Parents (already divorced luckily...) were too far and I was in a totally new world taking care of myself on my own (frequent visits at home weren't possible). I still was in a deep denial though I've already been a lot in the exploring the gay stuff I started reading the CAP stories a saga that lead me to GA in 2009...
Though among all the kids from 19-21 that were in Paris with me I felt a bit old... so as for the age "being too old" and "too young" I felt mainly the "too old" part... :-/ The age shows quickly... and for me the big changing point was 26 actually... the age when for most people here you're too old to be a student... Now I'm at work on full-time and I'm the youngest around here and I feel young again