Do you look younger or older for your age?

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KnarlyDUDE09
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02 Mar 2013, 4:07 am

I'm 17, but I still get called "cute" by people both younger and older than me...I guess that says something. :)


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02 Mar 2013, 4:58 am

22, people think I am 16-19 or so.


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02 Mar 2013, 5:47 am

Younger. Always. Much.

I was also always mentally immature for my age, which added to the appearance of being younger.


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02 Mar 2013, 6:18 am

I'm 21, I get carded all the time (you can legally buy booze and smokes at 18 here). When a sales person asks me are you 18 and I say no, I'm 21, they think I'm kidding.



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02 Mar 2013, 1:01 pm

I'm 33 and I think I look 33. I do get carded but I think they're just being sticklers for the rules (card everyone who looks under 40).

I get mistaken for a child on the phone. I don't have a high voice - maybe they think I'm an adolescent boy?



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02 Mar 2013, 1:07 pm

Younger. I am 19, but people often judge me about 15-16.


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02 Mar 2013, 1:13 pm

hyperlexian wrote:
younger. up until last autumn when i had long hair i would get carded to buy alcohol or lottery tickets, but since i cut it shorter i look about mid-to-late-twenties i have heard. i am tempted to grow it long again to see if my hair really made that much of a difference!


A co-worker (female) told me "your hair makes you look 20 years younger." In other words, if it was just my face, I look age appropriate I guess.



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02 Mar 2013, 3:02 pm

I'm 33 and people tell me I look a decade younger. As to my behavior, well I can definitely say I'm proud I graduated from elementary school :)



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02 Mar 2013, 10:59 pm

When I was a teenager, people would think I was at least 18 or in my 20s, which has always been interesting to me...I've always thought that I look really young for my age.


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02 Mar 2013, 11:17 pm

I'm 23, but I could easily pass for an 18 year-old. And even younger than that if I shave off my mustache and goatee.

Funnily enough, when my mother (who was 45 at the time) changed her hairstyle, she got carded several times . . . they honestly believed she was under 21 haha. At one point they even mistook my older brother (19 months older than me) as her husband. :?

Guess it runs in the family.



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03 Mar 2013, 12:24 pm

I'm 45, and still get carded for 21, and sometimes even 18. Part of it I'm sure is autism, but also I work hard to be in shape, and have kept up a youthful waist line.

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03 Mar 2013, 12:35 pm

I've almost always looked older. Largely due I think to the fact that I started puberty rather early. Like, by age 11 I had grown a moustache. Once, at a store, when I was around 12, a man walked up to me, and asked if I worked there. :o Even after I answered in the negative, he did not seem to want to believe me, and asked me if I knew where this one thing was, which I said I did not. If he had known that I was only a tween, I'd think that he'd feel creeped out a bit. :lol:



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03 Mar 2013, 9:08 pm

When I was a child I was overestimated and had a hard time getting kid rates for things as I was a larger kid, Once I hit 13-16 it appears I stopped ageing as I still look almost the same in my photos from this time. Everybody who does not know me thinks i'm in high school. Most of my old school peers faces (according to FB)look so much more defined and meny have lines or creases, mine has none of that.



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03 Mar 2013, 10:18 pm

I guess I looked my age until I got my hair cut shorter. The same thing happened last week when I got my braces removed. I honestly don't know, though.

This is me currently:

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