Judging Age

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I have no clue how old someone is by looking at them. I can barely tell if they are young or old unless they are really old with wrinkles on their skin. Otherwise everyone looks the same to me. I don't even know how old a kid is by looking at them. I am absolutely the worst at telling ages. People tell me I look young for my age and I am 28 years young.

I am exactly like that. I never have a clue about how old someone might be. I have also been told that I look young for my age (29).

Thanks everybody so far for your input. I thought I was a little daffy or something not being able to pin down a persons age. But I am daffy anyway so I am not too worried about it.

A young person = someone at least 15 years younger than myself.
An old person = someone at least 15 years older than myself.

This is the member's photo I mentioned earlier. I have absolutely no idea how old this guy is. His facial features seem to contradict each other in terms of age. His stated age is 29 but I can't narrow his age down between around 20 and 75! (No offence intended to the member by the way) :

TBH, NTs have this problem too. about every second time i go to the pub or i buy beer, i get carded/ID'd and i do not look THAT young. so i think judging age is hard for most people. i think people are kind of categorised into child/adult/elderly

I sometimes have a problem guessing someone's age. But, I don't think the fault lies with me, I think it lies with people who manage to get old way before their time. I'm a 38 yr old mother of a 5yr old, but appear around 30. The other mothers with kids the same age as mine are mostly younger than me, but you would never know that unless they told you. I've had acquaintances at parent and toddler groups and assumed them to be older mothers, only to discover that I was in fact 10 years older than them. It's not only how they look, but also their outlook and the things they speak about. I sometimes feel like a child when I'm in the company of mums the same age as myself, although my best friend is 5 yrs older than me. They're flabbergasted to discover my age too, in a good way, so they have the same problem.

I can normally tell if someone is a child, a teenager, in their's 20's, 30's, 40's or 50's. But that's about it.