Is she your daughter?

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Sort of funny and not situation. I have heard that people on the spectrum tend to seem younger? Well here is what happened.

A few days ago my GF told me "your eyes look so innocent it just kills me sometimes". I was at first thinking, but looks cant kill! didnt say anything I have learned better lol. Anyways, yesterday we went to bestbuy and the chick at the register asked HER if I was her daughter.Mind you I am 29 she is 28.

I was like "I am 29"

She was like "oops! not like its a bad thing you don't look 29 you look 14-15. "

My gf thought it was funny i was a little irritated by it. I can't even get away with people thinking I am an adult on the phone. I have a very young, high tone. This is not the first time people confuse me with a little kid, they do it a lot.

This ever happen to you guys?

Even at the grand old age of 39, I get mistaken for someone in their 20s. I was in a shop, a few weeks ago, buying a hairband. The guy behind the counter asked if I had a student card. I started to laugh, because I graduated 18 years ago. I don't think he knew why I found his question funny. He maybe thought I was a mature student, but I do think he thought I just looked like a typical student. And the fact that I was buying a pointy studded hairband maybe made that even more likely (it was for my Halloween costume). He made my day anyway.

My gf thinks demeanor has a great deal to do with it. I am introverted and have a very strange sense of style, I have been told. I usually war t-shirts with my favorite cartoons or movies or bands. I have thunder cat t-shirts (classic not the ugly anime ones) the Goonies, etc. I remember a few months back at GAMESTOP one of the employees saw me with the thundercat logo t-shirt and said "what you know about thundercats?" I was like "I grew up watching it?" He was like:

I still get mistaken for a child on the phone. Solicitors often ask if my parents are home. I have to explain that my parents have passed on. Then they get sympathetic and hang up. When I was young, my daughter and I were often mistaken for friends or sisters. Were it not for a few wrinkles, I would still look like a kid.

If I take after my father's side of the family (which I think its obvious considering that I almost look like a female version of daddy) I probably wont get wrinkles for a few years. I wanted silver hair my dad got it in his 20's but other than one or two grays, I do not think its going to happen.

once when i was waithing for the bus on my way to college in the the afternoon (i had late classes) the police van that goes around the neighborhood looking for truant kids stopped me. in my defence there are those who were my age who were still in highschool, but im not sure if he thought i was a even a highschooler because i was nearby the junior high at the time

I'm 27 and a few days ago I got asked for ID buying beer. At the corner store down the street from my place where I shop nearly every day. In a country where the minimum drinking age is 18 and I see 14-year-olds buying alcohol pretty regularly with no questions asked.

On the other hand, my mother looks much younger than she is and she's NT. So it might be part genetics. I look almost exactly like my mother, which drives me insane.

People tend to think I'm 3 or 4 years younger then I am.

I guess I can consider myself lucky- for starters, I have a pretty deep voice (bass-baritone), and I have a few wrinkles around my eyes (probably because I squint from being nearsighted), so I haven't had any problems from being TOO young- looking.
However, if I ask someone to guess my age, I am often guessed at several years younger than I am. Earlier this year, before I turned 44, I was even guessed at 22! NIIIICE!

Shop clerks and my parents' friends always assume I'm about 12-13, and get dreadfully embarrassed when I tell them that no, I am in fact "grown up". It probably has a lot to do with the way I dress. Not many 20-year-olds running around in overalls and woolly hats with rabbit ears on them. Stupid tactile sensitivity.

Yeah the way I dress probably does not help either. People assume I am young and/or a lesbian o,o oh well. I like Beanies a lot. I wear fingerless gloves (awesome purple pink and gray ones usually) long pants or jeans, t-shirts of cartoons or old-school movies, and my voice is a high soprano so meh, does not help at all.

The eyes seems to be a big deal too. I don't look at them so I would not know. but I am always told my eyes look innocent.

Im 34.

I had to grow a beard to stop getting $#@ ID checked when buying lotto or wine.


I mean, seriously. I look nothing like I did when I was a kid.

I used to have the opposite problem - this one bus driver gave me trouble, at 14, because he thought I was a university student and shouldn't be paying child fare. I was extremely upset by this.

i dont get mistaken for a child that often on the phone, but that is becouse my voice is quite deep, especially when answering the phone.

as for looks, i do indeed appear to look 4-5 years younger then i actually am, judging on the shocked reactions i see when i tell new people my age.

When I was a kid, people said I used to look younger than my actual age. But as a guy in his mid-20s, people think I actually look like someone who is that age. My mom (who is almost 50 years old) looks like someone in her mid-30s and my maternal aunt who is only a few years younger than her looks likes someone in her mid- to late 20s.

I feel younger than i am - but i have no idea how young i look. Maybe ill find out how to post a pic and do that.