Do you look older or younger than your age?

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I am 39 - people always guess about teenager which has been not good all my life, my teenage children think it's hilarious when I get ID'd. I have a young girl sounding voice too. I don't like using the phone but my voice makes me even more nervous about speaking to people. I once phoned a campsite to book a pitch and was told there was no room. I then got someone to phone for me and there was room

I still have two baby teeth to make me feel even worse about myself.

When I was in my early teens, I looked older than I was. Now that I'm 20, I could probably pass for any age between 15 and 25, but people often think I'm younger than I am. Places that offer discounts to people under 16 often try to give the discount to me (sometimes I wish I weren't too honest to take it...).

I've always looked older. Once when I was at a store, when I was about twelve years old, someone asked if I worked there and could help them find something.

I think in the case of children and young teenagers, people often use height to determine their age. However they use other factors, too. For example if a fifteen year old was short, but was developing breasts and such, then I would probably not consider her younger than a ten year old. It's quite possible that people thought the 10-year-old you hung out with was older than she was.

I hovered around the 3rd percentile for height growing up and therefore was consistently mistake for being younger than I was. However, once puberty showed signs, height wasn't the only indicator of age anymore. I'm still on the short side at 5'1," but people use many characteristics other than my height to guess my age and therefore are usually correct.

I've noticed that people in general think they look younger than they are. When this topic comes up on any of the boards I frequent, including the non-AS ones, most people say they look younger than they are and give various examples throughout their lives. Apparently our society in general is not very good at judging age.

I'm 20 but people say I look 25.

I get ridiculous estimations at both ends. i'm 22 but dress very colorfully and unconventionally, sometimes to the point of costume. Sometimes my clothing combinations are more childish and some are more adult. I still occasionally get asked if i need the children's menu at restaurants with my parents (which is fine by my since its usually the only food i'll eat anyway).

But, I make paintings of children, and recently people have asked me in person if all the kids in my paintings are mine! Come on people, so i honestly look old enough to have 6 kids, the oldest being 12? I'd have to start in junior high!

My parents have always looked younger for their age too. My mom got carded at a rated R movie when she was in her early 40's! My dad got carded for alcohol into his 30's or 40's too.

I'm 25, but look 15, and sound 40 on the phone.

I'm 30 and I still get carded for cigarettes. (Ofcourse, if I don't quit smoking my appearance is probably going to catch up with me. )

im 16, and i look 15-16 i spose, thats what people assume i am. im about 5'11 / 5'10 so im not tall, but i sound alot older than i am (deep voice o.0) i guess u could say i look 'average' >_<

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been called 12-15, haha

i feel like it but i'm definitely not short

Younger by a lot. I'm still fighting acne and have no facial or chest hair to speak of, and I'm 24.

much younger. i'm in my mid 30s and people always think i'm in my early 20s.

I get carded when I go to nightclubs or to R-rated movies.

A couple weeks ago, someone mistook me for a teenager, even though my actual age is 36.

When I was 26, a girl who I assumed to be 14-15 told me that I looked young for my age and that she looked old for hers, implying that we would make a convincing couple. Ha ha, as if risking my freedom on a fling was anything I would ever consider.

Wow. I forgot all about this thread!

I am 27 (will be 28 in December), but I look like I am in my late 30s or early 40s.

I don't like it.

And yes, that's me in the avatar.

Tim

I am really little for my age and so I often am believed to be 10 years old! Not a prob though, gets me half fare on buses!