Does every aspie look younger?

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I didnt shave until I was 22. I thought thats why girls didnt like me. Anyway I have always looked younger but its catching up. My tip is to drink more alcohol to look older.

This works, in my experience. Of course, you have to do it for a long time.

Hahaha. I make really weird facial expressions too when I'm just sitting around, like watching TV or something. Anyway, I never thought of it that way either and it makes a lot of sense as far as aspies/auties who are old enough to show wrinkles but someone like me, only in their 20s who shouldn't have wrinkles anyway... there's no reason I should look 14.

And I don't. This is one of those "traits", those stereotypical features that annoys me so damned much. I've ALWAYS looked a lot older. I was just looking through my old yearbooks and in group pictures, you'd never know I was in the same grade as the other people. In seventh grade, the other girls looked like little girls and I could have passed for a student teacher. I don't know if it's because I was taller, or my makeup, or that I'm standing way off in the corner of all of the pictures or what.... there's just something about it. Even a picture from my eighth grade year, I look about 17-20 in the face. When I was 18, people thought I was 23. When I was 21, people mistook me for 30. Right now, I'm trying to be nice to myself, but I think I could tell someone I was 32 and they'd believe me.

I was waiting in a hospital with my dad one time and.... he's a very comfortable age distance from me (~30 years) and a nurse mistook him for my husband.

I'm 21 but people think I'm like 17 or 18 its annoying

My entire family looks about ten years younger than we actually are. Good genes.

Regards,

Patricia

I'm glad i dont look like an "older" person-i remove any sideburns I get at barbershop appointments. if i get a beard/moustache i'd probably wax it off or use nair.

EDIT: so theoretically someone who wants an aspie girl can end up getting someone who looks like a loli-a large chance

People have always thought I'm younger than I am. Once when I was 19 a boat cruise captain thought I was 14 and so on. A few years ago (when the effect was particularly pronounced) one girl actually refused to believe me when I told her my real age, and she insisted I was lying to her and got angry at me for keeping on with the lie. In the end I had to show her my student ID to make her believe me.


These days though I tend to look closer to my age, and mostly only 2-3 years younger at the most (and on one or two occasions in the last year (for the first time in my life) someone guessed I was about a year older than I am! Though mostly people think I'm younger).

only down side about it is when u get asked id every time most seem to think im 13-15

I'm 34 and I always get carded for alcholol and tobacco, when I purchase them for my husband( I don't drink or smoke). When I was 12 people would say that I looked about 16. When I was 16, people thought that I looked about 12. When I was 19 I was mistaken for an 11 year old. At 25 people guessed me at around 14. I am now 34 (and 2 kids later) and I am guessed around 19. My aunt even told my mom, when I was in my teens, that I looked younger each year that she saw me( from 14-17).

Me too. I grew really fast when I was 12 but then suddenly stopped growing. I could pass for a 14 year old. I don't mind. I pretty much act like a kid.

I seem to be the opposite as people have always thought I was older than I actually am. Some have thought I was around 18/19.

Same here, 23, often mistaken for 17-19.

I think it is because I dress like a boy and I act like a kid sort of, so I don't look, you know, womanly. D:

I kind of like it though because it has benefits.. like getting help easier and not being expected to act too civilized. And I don't mind getting yelled at or ordered around, although that doesn't happen much. D: But if I DO get yelled at, I don't feel as embarassed, I think, as I would if I were like 23 or something.
Wait... >___>;;

But in opposition to all of this, I once told a really gullible friend of mine that I was 38 and she believed me. OTL;;;;

re: drinking alcohol to look older-when I finally ended up in rehab they told me I looked about 80.

Ordinarily I'm thought to be 10-15 years younger. I always thought it was because I inherited my mother's skin. She didn't get noticeable wrinkles until she was 60.

I look my age-older. But people have mistaken me for being younger and older, older because of looks and younger because of the way I act.

Before puberty hit I was always mistaken for a girl, once the testosterone kicked in I've always been mistaken to be a few years younger than I actually am. I'm 22 now and when I go to a store in the middle of the day on a school day I often get asked why I'm not in school.

It gets annoying but I'm happy that I'll keep a youthfull appearance longer than the average person, a lot of people in my family have the same thing so I guess it's down to genetics mostly.