Do you look young for your age?

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I often get asked what grade I'm in...yet I graduated high school six years ago. Most people guess that I'm anywhere from 17-25, depending on the context people know me in.

i'm 45 and people think i'm in my mid/early twenties. that's not so bad once you think about it... was a problem in my late twenties when everyone thought i was a minor, though, including a cop who saw me drinking orange juice from a bottle wrapped with a brown paper bag and thought i was a fifteen year old drinking alcohol. (i was driking fresh squeezed orange juice, florida fresh squeezed).

I'm 30 but still get carded for alcohol and sometimes even lottery tickets! A friend I hadn't seen in a while asked me when we ran into one another recently, "What's with you Daryl? You don't change, ever!" And it's remarkable that I still look young given all the drugs I've done, but I credit it to no facial expressions (a la Cher) and complete and deliberate avoidance of sun exposure.


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I'm gonna go ahead and say yes, absolutely. I went to buy alcohol the day before thanksgiving, and I got carded(i'm 25). Then the guy at the counter got a weird look on his face when he looked at my ID. He had a look of surprise... he made a comment about how I don't look that old, and I said "yeah, I get that all the time. I often get carded to buy cigarettes, and one time when I was... 20, I think it was, some lady was talking to the cashier at a gas station. I went in to buy cigarettes, and the lady that was talking to the cashier said something like "if you're 18, then I'm the queen of england." I was like "actually, I'm 20," and she called BS. Then I showed her my ID, and that shut her up. All my coworkers were surprised to learn how old I was when I told them. My boss at one job didn't think I was even old enough to drink. I told her I was 25, and she had a reaction similar to that of the lady talking to the cashier before... until I showed her my ID. I've been told many times throughout my life that I have a "baby face."

Anyway, I'll let you guys decide...

Here I am at 14 or 15:
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Here I am at the age of 16 or 17:
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Here is a picture of me at the age of 18:
http://www.funnycoolstuff.com/images/nintendo-kid.jpg

Here I am at 21-22:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/M ... ot5041.jpg

Here's one at the age of 23-24:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/M ... 223092.jpg

Here I am at the age of 25, from about half an hour ago:
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/M ... 302011.jpg

Do YOU think I look young for my age? Do you think I even change much at all over the years?

I'm nearly 30 and I'm sometimes still carded in bars.

I think that answers the question.

Nobody looks exactly their age. I hate when people say that they look 44 when they're 46. Like, what's the point?

Anyway, I look quite young but if I changed my hairstyle I think I would look a lot older. Well, not a lot, but I would look more mature.

Yes, I'm 25 and I get carded everywhere I go, I once had a lady at the gas station tell me I would be showing my ID to people for a long time, it makes it hard to buy cigarettes if I loose my ID and I get pulled over by police more often as if they expect me to be a young teenager looking for trouble.

People also think my sister is older then me, and she's younger by two years.

Children's faces tell the truth, and so does mine. Maybe that's why I look young!

The correlation between ASD's and looking young is somewhere above 40%, and that's only from the ones the researchers found.

I'm now 24 and look around 15-17 if I decide to not have any facial hair. With facial hair I look closer to my age or older.. so I'm told lol. It doesn't help I'm only around 5'4 3/4 haha. I've always been asked for ID even when I've been old enough. I don't see that ever changing for me

I'm 37 years old and I was IDed when I went to buy a Scratch n Win at my local 7-Eleven. They don't sell tickets to people who are under 19.

I was always taken for much younger. When I was 27, a cop stopped me and tried to hassle me because I was smoking and he thought I was underage (didn't know they cared ) I've recently started to get grey hair though so I think the jig is up. I still get carded, but I think it must just be the store's policy because I'd be one rugged looking teenager.

I'm 24 but everyone swears I am sixteen or seventeen.

I think I look more or less my age. What do you think?

Oh yeah I'm 23 but people think I'm between 16-19. I've had my fair share of people who have thought i was in HS.

Back when I was 19, I walked pass a guy on the st who was trying to get people to vote. He took one look at me and he was like "your definetly not old enough to vote".

I'm 19 but look like 12, my whole life was hell because of this.