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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:05 pm    Post subject: I dont look my age Reply with quote

I am 18 but I look like I'm 14/15, my height is 5'8 and 125 pounds, people say I have a baby face I get a lot of younger girls staring at me and not many girls my age...was on holiday couple months ago and this girl asked me my age I said 18 and she was shocked, I get a little embarassed when people keep telling me I look like a 15 year-old school boy, all my other friends are quite bigger than me. is it a bad thing to look younger than your real age.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same with me man, im 20 in october and i really don't look it but that's just how it is, when you're young you want to look old and when you're old you want to look young. I'm not too bothered anymore, i'm even boasting some facial fuzz, freakin woot

I dunno if you act mature and that it really won't matter...although it's kinda hard if your totally paranoid and self consciousness from the sa and that....lol..

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try growing a beard it might help 'increase' your age a bit.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah me too

I am 27

i never get told i look look my age .


i think mostly i get 14-16 or so.

but twice i have got told i look 12.

that pissed me right off Mad

I wish i could grow facial hair i think that might work for me but i can't.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ripewithdecay wrote:
Try growing a beard it might help 'increase' your age a bit.

I find it annoying that I (I guess it's standard) must shave like every second day if I don't want to have any. :/


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm 38 years old and I still look young. Most people think I'm about 23 give or take a few years. I even get carded whenever I buy spray paint at Walmart...and you only have to be 18 for that. For MANY years I hated that I looked so young. It drove me crazy when the first thing people asked when they met me is where I go to school. Now that I'm getting up there in age looking young is finally starting to pay off. Who wants to be an old fart anyway?

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:17 pm    Post subject: Re: I dont look my age Reply with quote

Josh90 wrote:
I am 18 but I look like I'm 14/15, my height is 5'8 and 125 pounds, people say I have a baby face I get a lot of younger girls staring at me and not many girls my age...was on holiday couple months ago and this girl asked me my age I said 18 and she was shocked, I get a little embarassed when people keep telling me I look like a 15 year-old school boy, all my other friends are quite bigger than me. is it a bad thing to look younger than your real age.


Well, I get told the same thing, and I used to hate it (even though I'm female, so I have no need to look masculine). But now that I'm almost 26, I love being mistaken for 21/22, due also to my "baby face" which I do resent being told I have. I guess that's due to my inescurity about being inexperienced in life because of SA, and not wanting to be passed over, looked down upon, or not taken seriously because people think I'm childish.

But the older you get, the more you'll appreciate looking young for your age, even if you're a guy! We're lucky (for once haha)!

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For better or for worse, I'm the other way around. I'm 21 and get mistaken for almost 30 sometimes, probably because of my full beard and receding hairline. If I wear a hat I can pass for 24 maybe. I've been told my facial features make me look older as well. But I rarely get carded at liquor stores, even the nice ones that plug your number into the comptuer. Older women check me out once in a while, but rarely women my age.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

theblank wrote:
I'm 38 years old and I still look young. Most people think I'm about 23 give or take a few years. I even get carded whenever I buy spray paint at Walmart...and you only have to be 18 for that. For MANY years I hated that I looked so young. It drove me crazy when the first thing people asked when they met me is where I go to school. Now that I'm getting up there in age looking young is finally starting to pay off. Who wants to be an old fart anyway?


I, too, am 38, and I've always looked young for my age. I can't say I've been carded recently, though. I recently found some pictures of myself when I was 18 and I looked about 12. Yecch. No wonder I couldn't get dates. Well, I wouldn't have known what to do with them anyway so that's probably just as well. Although I wouldn't mind being closer to the weight I was back then.

People are always surprised to hear how old I am. The past few years I've wondered if that has anything to do with how mature I seem. Maybe that's part of it, I don't know. It helps that the men in my family have good "hair genes". I still have all my hair and I'm not going gray. I have to look really hard in the mirror to try to find any gray hairs. My dad turned 60 a few months ago and he hardly has any gray hair either. Hopefully our "illusion of youth" will last a long time.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jay-T wrote:
For better or for worse, I'm the other way around. I'm 21 and get mistaken for almost 30 sometimes, probably because of my full beard and receding hairline. If I wear a hat I can pass for 24 maybe. I've been told my facial features make me look older as well. But I rarely get carded at liquor stores, even the nice ones that plug your number into the comptuer. Older women check me out once in a while, but rarely women my age.


Exactly! i'm the same way here. I'm 23 but everyone thinks i'm 30 or even older. It's not nice, i can tell you. What makes even worse that i'm slightly bald (i guess it's genetic) so that i have to shave my head like once a week.

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