Do you look older or younger than you are?

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How old do you look?
Older than I am 15%  15%  [ 13 ]
Younger than I am 72%  72%  [ 63 ]
The right age 14%  14%  [ 12 ]
Total votes : 88

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09 May 2007, 11:45 pm

Depends on how I am feeling.
I probably look more my age when I have just woken up and have nothing covering the circles under my eyes.



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10 May 2007, 4:11 am

I'm 20 but I guess I look like I'm 16. I had to show ID when I tried to buy a beer a few weeks ago. Some drunk on the train station mistook me for a girl once, THAT was scary. Time to cut my hair and/or grow some more beard I guess.



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10 May 2007, 4:43 am

I'm 24 but I have been thought to be 14 years old, but also mistaken to be about 30 so I have no idea how old I look.

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How is it that the vast majority of voters think they look younger?

I'm not sure about myself.


It may have something to do with Aspergers. Many of us have a child-like demeanor and the lack of facial expression delays creases from developing around the mouth, eyes, and forehead.



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10 May 2007, 7:41 am

i think i definately look younger than my age, people are often telling me i do anyway!



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10 May 2007, 9:22 am

I'm 22 but I'm told that I look about 18.

Also, one time, I had several days stubble and someone told me that I might have to start shaving soon!



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11 May 2007, 11:47 am

I look about 15 without makeup lol



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11 May 2007, 12:55 pm

I'm 23, and I also look 23.


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11 May 2007, 7:58 pm

I look older than I am. Most people think I'm a college student. It interesting because my mother looks younger than her age, and so we're often mistaken of being cousins or not related at all.


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11 May 2007, 10:01 pm

I have always looked older than I am although as I am growing older; I am growing into my age if that makes sense i.e. I don't look that much older than I am anymore but when I was 14, people would think I was in my mid-twenties; I had a girlfriend who was 28 when I was 17 and she didn't even realise that I was that age until we had gone out several times (I had thought she was about 20-21). Nowadays, people normally guess my age from about 24-32 (depending on where I am, what I am doing and whether I have shaved etc.)

RainSong wrote:
It interesting because my mother looks younger than her age, and so we're often mistaken of being cousins or not related at all.


Same here; a couple of times when I have been out with her people have assumed I was her husband or something; quite embarrassing.



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11 May 2007, 11:32 pm

I apparently never look my age... with facial hair I usually get guesses in the 25-30 range(I'm 22 btw). Without facial hair I look 15 still. Being short makes it worse.

I was cast as Mowgli when my high school did the Jungle Book as the fall play, and in retrospect, I'm sure this helped clinch it... I pulled off a pretty decent 12 year old when I was 16.



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12 May 2007, 2:23 pm

i probably look younger than i really am


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12 May 2007, 3:10 pm

JakeG wrote:

RainSong wrote:
It interesting because my mother looks younger than her age, and so we're often mistaken of being cousins or not related at all.


Same here; a couple of times when I have been out with her people have assumed I was her husband or something; quite embarrassing.


At a hiking club several people thought me and my mom were brother and sister, which was pretty weird.


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12 May 2007, 3:52 pm

Probably about average.



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12 May 2007, 4:31 pm

doordoctor wrote:
i have a feeling that its beucase of developmental delays that the part of the brain responsible for showing age is delayed thus you look younger then stated age.


Or maybe its because we don't do non-verbal communication, and thus get less wrinkles :o


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03 Oct 2007, 6:25 pm

GUESS what happened to ME today!! !! ! Someone told me she though I was about TWENTY years younger than I am! YIKES! THREE others, one man, and 2 women, said I was 9-12 years younger! ALL were shocked that I was so old!

AMAZING! :lol:



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03 Oct 2007, 6:58 pm

With facial hair=Older
Without=Younger


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