Do you "write older" than you really are

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This made me laugh.

But on a more serious (albeit random and vain) note:
I do wonder how one would write in order to give the impression of still greater age?

And from what point onwards does it actually become impossible?

I don't thimk there even is an adequat answer to either question.

People do often tell me when they meet me that I come across as much older than I am, particularly in my younger years. One much older man I once met couldn't believe it!

When I was in the fourth grade, my idiot teacher thought I couldn't possibly have written a certain report because the writing was well above that of a fourth grader. I always wrote well above my grade level. My sixth grade teacher recognized this, and didn't question the authorship of the papers I wrote.

I think I write younger than I really am.

When I was in the fourth grade, our stupid school librarian refused me lending "Huckleberry Finn" because as she told me, it's the book for students of the seventh grade so I wouldn't understand it Another time I had to answer her questions concerning a collection of fairy tales I had borrowed two days earlier because this stupid woman didn't believe me I was able to read a book for such a short time.

Tou do You seem to be a very youthful person

Thank you, Irulan, I am happy about that.

You're welcome

Btw, I also like peacocks Peacock's name in my language is "paw" ("a" like in "but" and "w" pronounced as "v")

Yes, and it's not surpirsing, considering aspies usually have very high verbal IQs.

Well, if you like paws (is the plural paws?) then you should have one, lol. It is always nice to be able to give someone a peacock.

"Paw" in plural is "pawie" "i" like in "eel" and "e" like in "bed"
I'd love to have such a wonderful bird but I live in a block of flats so I wouldn't have a place to breed it. Our neighbors' last name is Paw but they don't resemble peacocks at all Much more fitting name for this couple would be Słoń (elephant) or Niedźwiedź (bear)

Lol!

I take some amount of time studying writing patterns in chat, and certain personality traits shine through extensively in chat. Forums are different, and I don't know about them. Don't use them that much. But people always expected me to be older than I am. When I was 14, people thought I was 20. But aside from my dark, emotional inspiration I think it was mainly because I had decided to type using grammatical rules because it seemed foolish not to. People who tend to think grammatical rules are followed by older people or scholars or professionals probably see it as a sign of maturity or good education. And from that standard, it doesn't really matter how old you are, you'll still be presumed a certain age if you write in a certain way.