Why do we look younger?

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My Dad is sixty, and looks mid to late forties. He's been mistaken for my brother's brother in the past.

Booyakasha: I met somebody who really did look 20, but she was almost 50. It was SO COOL.

I came to this thread to post that my manager told me I have a very young-looking face. He said he thought I was much younger than I really am. I was surprised to hear it, since I've never been told this before, but I can see what he was talking about.

I think I look younger due to my inexperience with life. In a lot of ways, psychologically, I'm younger than I am, & I think it shows on me in a physical way, by making me look younger than I am.

Well I am 24 and I ams till mistaken by the busdriver as under 14 at times xD

Strangely, I feel mentally older than I really am. Physically on the other hand, people mistake me for 15-16 all the time. It sucks! Everytime I buy cigarettes, I get ID'd. I also think this may be one reason I'm still single. Girls like older looking guys. I never would have guessed this was an autism thing.

I'm almost 24 but I look 19 or 20. I don't even have that much facial hair or chest hair. I hate the facial hair I do have because it is only sideburns and under-chin growth, I have pretty much no mustache or beard growth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinstrap_beard

For what it's worth, people have thought I was 2-3 years younger than my actual age for a long time, but it's not because of lack of facial expression. I smile as a defensive mechanism as well as when I'm happy, so I should be a prune by now. I think it's the fact that I walk a little funny and I'm not very self-confident, and can sometimes be gullible. Having big eyes and a round face doesn't help much, either.

Dunno, though, there could be a lot of reasons for looking young. So I doubt this messes up the general pattern.

As I was 12, people thought I was 16. Quite practical

Now I am 36. Last year I had to proof that I am 18. Ok, it was a dark and shabby place and my skin was bad at this time, but - nevertheless... It made my day

A women I work with is one week older but looks 10 years older than me. She smokes and raises three kids.

Weird that so many of us have similar experiences!

I don't know what I look like but I must look like a simpleton with vaguely mongoloid features or something...I am always getting called 'baby', and people talk to me like I am not quite bright. It is starting to worry me. I am talking about women cashiers and stuff who are ten fifteen years younger than me, 'what you need, baby', etc, etc, all the time. I know there has always been something weird about my eyes or something. I don't know what it is. I have always looked young for my age but I don't think I do anymore. I mean drastically younger, like still getting carded for cigarettes at thirty. Now they respond to me as if it's not that I look young, just stupid or something. When I was at the hospital last year the nurse was shocked to find out my age, she said "I thought you was just a baby", again with the baby...it's really starting to worry me so I am smoking alot more and will soon have some real wrinkles.

@salt, that is so weird about people younger than you that look older, this one girl in school with me was two years younger but looked ten years older...she tans though, peroxide and tan is a religion around here (probably everywhere in the south still)...that ages your skin, plus she had lost two of her kids, one to illness and one a stillbirth so I bet that probably was hard on her.

I'm starting to look older now (not that I actually care); life and all its stressors has been catching up with me. I still lack the usual facial expressions, so I may not have as many wrinkles as the average bear my age, but I've taken on a weathered and worn look (like my life has been drained).

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Well, my scenario was odd. When i went to a pre-graduate college at age 21, my roommates mistook me for a 35 year old. Now Im almost 30 and the people i work with think im 25 or so. Im guessing it has to do with the lines near our eyes. Since we in the spectrum dont use those muscle groups that often, the lines dont develop as fast. Then again, its also "socially correct" to not ask/tell someone's age in public, and if theyre older, you're supposed to say they look younger.