Not looking your age?

[TheRightToArmBears]

Well, I used to get that but I'm quite hairy really, and as of late I've gone for the Mastodon (or for those of you not into metal, scottish warlord) look. beards make you look a lot older, especially a full one. I grew one after people kept thinking I was younger than I was and I started getting very into Mastodon.

I've got no photos of me recently (other than stuff at-distance), so here's a picture of the guys from Mastodon:

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Like the really hairy guy with the tattoo on his face, Brent Hinds, except my face isn't as broad, my hair is darker (and not so receeding, thank god) and I've got no tattoos. In fact, I don't really look like that except the amount of hair.

 

[Nickolai77]

In my younger teenage years i probably looked a bit older than i really was. At 14 i had facial hair and by the time i was 16 i was shaving reguarly.

 

[almostnot]

I'm 26. When i've got a full beard, which is most of my lazy ass life, people think i'm in my early 40s. So then I get a clean shave and then get ID'd trying to buy alcohol...

Can't win...

 

[JasonKaotic]

I always get mistaken for being older, I could get alcohol on holiday once.
(I'm 15)
fuckyeahhh

 

[spartan231490]

i was in the same boat as u until i grew my goatee. now i look over 25, or so people tell me.

 

[DarkDain]

A little while back, I was out at a pub with my friends to celebrate my birthday (I turned twenty one.) When the waitress asked us what we wanted to drink. I asked for a Keiths and she said that someone that is my age should not be ordering beer. I asked how old she thought I was. She responded with the straightest face ?turning sixteen". I was so pissed. I showed her my ID and said to suck on that and told her she just lost her tip for that night.

I did not let this bother me, but just today when I was walking my dog at about eleven in the morning. A woman had come up to me asking about my dog and then asked why I was not in school. I told her that I was finished school and I was in college. She had apologized and said that I looked seventeen.

I know this should not bother me but it does because I am in my early twenties and people who look at me think I am still in secondary school.
So my question is
Have you ever been mistaken for being older or younger and does it bother you?

You look young, deal with it, dont be a jackass to people lol im 22 and look 15 or 16. Later though, looking young will be a good thing. Just carry 2 ID's on you.

 

[RanD00M]

It depends...how old do I look? My avatar pic is a few months old.

You look like this one girl that I know that is 14.

OT:Well I'm 16.But I could pass off as someone 18-19 years old.I did get into a strip club once without showing any sorts of ID.So I guess I look older then I am.

 

[Random Argument Man]

I'm 20...and I wish that I looked like my 16 year old self.

I wasn't losing any hair during that time...That, and I was in shape.

 

[Elec0]

I'm 15 now and I've been mistaken for being anywhere from 16-18.

 

[arcainia]

When you're a woman it's never offensive if someone mistakes you for being younger.
I'm 21, but I'm often told I look between 16-18.

 

[ethaninja]

Bugger man. Nah, but people reckon I look older then I really am.

 

[adragonofgold]

I'll be 32 in a month, and after I shave I get carded for movies, games and any time I buy alcohol.

 

[mathadawg]

I'm 14, and the other day a woman asked me if I was back home for the summer. I gave her a puzzled look, and she went "OH!!! You're not in college yet." I seriously don't know how she did that. I don't look 18/19 by any means.

 

[Eliam_Dar]

Well, a friend of mine had the opposite problem, she and her friends were always going to the same bar where you have to be 21 to enter (here the legal drinking age is 18, but some bars migth require you to be older) she tried to enter lots of times, and she couldn't. When she turned 21 where do you think she went... rigth to that same bar, when she entered they never asked her for her ID... so she went mad and said something like "NOW YOU DON'T ASK FOR MY ID...NO YOU DON'T!!!!" which cost her to be kicked out of the bar. So in short she never entered.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Heh, to most I look sixteen, with my height and early-developed facial hair.

Won't tell yuo my real age, I like my privacy.

 

[breadlord]

A bunch of people thought that I was a senior. All. Three. Years. Of. High. School.

Welp. Looks like I have to go and shave.

 

[Fellwarden]

I usually get mistaken for being older. There have been occasions where in social gatherings where my parents have been present that people have tried to offer me alcoholic beverages, for my parents to reply that I am 16. Last winter, when I was with my brother, an acquaintance of his thought I was 22, though I was 15 at the time. It can be quite handy, as I would often easily be able to buy beer and such without anyone wondering if I should (I've only done this once though).

 

[Caurus]

No I don't. I would love for people to think I'm younger than I am. I'm 21, people usually guess 22 which worries me because they could be rounding down to be polite.

Hey Mr O.P, bit of an arse getting that angry about her thinking you were that young. I thought only women were that insecure.

 

[MrGFunk]

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I'm 24, and I get asked what high school I go to. I love getting carded...it makes me forget about my grey hairs.

Yep. I love having to pull out the license.

I think I'm ageing well. I was getting served in pubs at 15 and have recently been ID'd at almost 31.

Enjoy looking young because there's plenty of time to look old.