This young looking thing is starting to creep people out...

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I was carded at the 7-Eleven down the street from where I live when I bought myself a scratch and win, a week after my 37th Birthday.

This is me at 15 with my family



This is me a few weeks ago after i dyed my hair brown. (My hair has since made all the dye fall out and I am a sandy blonde again.

Same here. Late 40's and can pass for 30 something. Solvejg i'm too lazy to walk to my underwear drawer where I am to understand you are. You do look the same as at 15, but i don't know if you're 25 or 45. I guess that's the point.

That happens to me all the time, too. When I tell people my age, they don't believe me - but I take it as a compliment that people think I look younger than I really am. Once you hit middle age, it becomes more of an advantage, IMHO. Some people age faster or slower than others, simple as that. If it creeps other people out, that's their problem. Anybody remember Dick Clark (Host of American Bandstand, $10,000 Pyramid, and New Year's Eve Specials)? He NEVER seemed to age at all!

yeah i still get carded for alcohol sometimes. at work they call me Benjamin Button and/or Merlin cuz they say i am ageing backwards. but i do have wrinkles and stuff.

Yes, we look young, but has anyone you've known a while act weird towards you about it? Like almost suspicious of whether you are real or not!

people think i am lying about my age (they assume i am pretending to be older, but why would anyone pretend to be 39? lol). doctors also think i am too young to have _X_ wrong with me. i've been told it's weird or unnatural that i look so young.

Well, I am young, so my purpose here is defeated.

I had this happen last week, a colleague who I see occasionally at work refused to believe that I was in my mid thirties and that I must only be in my twenties, I didn't have any proof to show them at the time, so they still believe it.

It also happened when I was training for my current job, a mentor I had asked the innocent question 'So, did you decide to start your course when you left school?'. I was 29 at the time! I just take it as a compliment, though people I have not seen for years usually comment that I've not changed much, though they don't act odd around me.

I'm 24.

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I used to get told a lot that I looked about 16 when I was 20. Now I don't hear that so much anymore. I wonder if I look my age now. I get asked for ID when buying alcohol, even though I pay for it using a visa debit card.

I guess specifically I am asking, has anyone actually shunned you about it?

Yes