Anyone else not physically age?

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I used to look really young--but now my grayness gives my age away.

I always looked far younger than I was in my teens and twenties, perhaps largely due to the lack of life experience and giving off a general aura of naivety. I've probably aged quite a bit recently though due to stress and putting on weight.

There was a young person on WP a couple months ago who did a study asking both autistic and non-autistic people to self-gauge how young they look and also report how often they get told that they look younger or older (if I'm remembering correctly). (S)he found that autistic people DO seem to look younger than non-autistic people.

There was also a study that was just published that found that the emotional expressions on autistic people's faces are harder to gauge than non-autistic people, for both autistic and non-autistic people. It's long been casually noted on WP that autistic people use less tiny facial muscles than non-autistics, thus giving a "natural botox."

Lucky.

People mistook me as the younger sibling instead of my NT sister, who is actually younger than me. Granted, she does act like one.
Sometimes people mistook me for an elementary student. That funny one time where my mom bought me to the market to buy a pair of shoes, my mom says I'm graduating. The seller assumed I'm graduating elementary.
Then whenever I'm inquiring (mortgages, check-ins, and the like) they kept asking me if I'm going to persuade my parents to buy it for me despite being past legal age already. Or when voting, they'll ask if I was looking for my parents that I should leave and wait for them. But I'm A voter!!

People think I'm 10-16, but I'm 20!! !

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Hi, there may a bit of truth to it, but there could certainly be so many other factors, genetic, sun exposure, illnesses,
trauma, that affect our "age appearance".... my mother was NOT an aspie, but she was slim, fit, active right up to her
death at age 92. I am 70, slim, work out 6 days a week, no flab, but because I live in SoCal, I do have sun
damage on my arms. My face is not wrinkled at all. A man in his 40's was flirting with me, and I had to finally
say something about my age so that he would get lost. He was floored when I mentioned that I graduated from
college in 1968, ha ha. He could not get away fast enough! Also, my hair has not turned grey, tho I wish it
would.

people tell me that i don't age. i do. i have forehead wrinkles now that are always there. but compared to others my age, i look a lot younger. i have always looked young except for when i was very young because i was tall for my age. i started looking young for my age around 17.

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[yes, yes i do. my profile lies, i'm 18. i might actually look older with my facial hair and glasses, never having been asked for ID in a casino an being asked what college i go to when in HS. "he looks 40"!

with the clean shaven face i might look 15 though.]

I've definitely aged, but apparently I look about 10 years younger than my actual age. At least that's what people keep telling me. Some of it could be schmooze, but sometimes there's been a ring of sincerity about it, and it's been frequent enough to make me think there's something in it. Though when I look in the mirror, I see an old man. It seems other people don't see what I see.

Same here.

People often say I look younger than my age...especially if I go to buy beer.

I'm 15(soon turning 16), and people keep thinking I am 17. I think the reason for this is because I am relatively tall(I am 5'11).

I'm 25, but people still believe I look 16-18.