OK, I am 55 now, but took a needle in hand for the first time when I was 10. My mother didn't do any of this sort of stuff and saw it as a waste of time. Her hobby was he soap operas. I took my first quilting class around 30 and made my first quilt a couple of years later.
Why would I care what quilting made me look like? If you can judge by today's standards I am very out of the loop cause I don't watch sports or Dancing With the Stars or go to movies. I am entertained and I have something to show in the end, what more could you ask for?