I'm new! (At the age of twenty)

YHL commented about not starting Conlanging until after the age of twenty.

I discovered the Joy of Language (natlangs, specifically Russian, that is) at
twelve.  I came across and was fascinated by Esperanto at the age of fifteen.
 For a while I was an avid Esperantist but after a while I became less
interested in it as a IAL and simply enjoyed it as a very pleasant language.
I continued to deepen my knowledge of it.

Over the years I dabbled in conlanging but without any measurable result
(here and there two or three pages of notes).  It was not until 1997 (by then
I was already forty seven years old...that's right [47]!) that I seriously
started linguaforming.

I discovered various Conlangs on the Net and was very impressed first by
Eklektu.  Sometime later I came across Tony Harris' Aluric.  I was so
impressed that I contacted him and we have become close friends.  It was
essentially Aluric that re-inspired me to start conlanging.  After three
years work "tá Drúnit shól" was born.

So, I am now fifty [50] years old, I have been conlanging for three years, I
have no training in linguistics but I play it all by ear and I have been
playing "catch-up" with all you guys and gals and enjoying every minute of
it!  By the way...

Am I the oldest one on the list?

Ciao,
Jim H