Two thoughts on this subject :
#1- as renda stated---------denial
#2- as you age (of course I have no knowledge of this!) your threshold for activities changes.
For myself, I'm paranoid in regard to my appearance. But there are indeed things I might do or say now that I would have never ever said when I was 30.
The aging process alters the sensor for acceptable behavior as it were.
Not that any of this applies to me.
I recall my grandmother discussing topics in her 80's that would never have happened when she was younger.