Not looking your age?

[hardpixelrain]

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?

Strange. This is pretty much the opposite of what I get. I've repeatedly been told I look like I'm in my 20's, even when I was 17 or 18. Sometimes waiters at restaurants ask me if I would like to try the wine...

Must be my facial hair though, because when I shave I have a real baby face.

 

[Srdjan]

Well I never had that problem, I always looked older. People tend to give me few extra years when we meet.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I think I look a bit younger, 19 maybe. Some people don't believe me when I say I'm 20 going on 21. ;O

Take it as a complement.

People think I look far younger than I really am.

That and a girl.

So people look at me and think I'm a very tall 13 year old girl.

I was once called "Miss" when I had my hair grown out long, Never again!

I get mistaken for a girl even when my hear doesn't reach my collar. How d'ya think that is!?

I'm always mistaken for being younger than I am. I'm 17. Apparently I look 13-15. Especially when I don't shave.

But that gets blown out of the water when I talk. My voice is very deep; even deeper than my dad's!

 

[Druyn]

Im the opposite. I look my age (17,) but as soon as I grow out a beard people start mistaking me for being 20-21. Its wierd. I know beards arent magic like that, but I guess thats how it works for me.

 

[SultanP]

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?

Self contradictions galore.

On topic though, people think I am older than I am. When I was twenty, I was sometimes pegged as 25 or there-about. I aged a lot between 17 and 20. When I was 17, I looked like I was 14. It also helped a lot when I shaved off my curly hair and grew a beard.

 

[Sam G]

Actually, as it happens I generally come across as looking exactly how old I am, so this really hasn't been a problem for me.
I do sometimes get mistaken for a girl though. But alas, that is a tale for a different thread.

 

[Flames66]

I get ID'd all the fucking time!!! I'M 20 FOR FUCK SAKE!!!

Spose i should take it as a compliment, but does get annoying after a while.

My girlfriend says it's because i've got a baby face .... whatever that means lol

I just always carry my Driving licence and expect it to happen. No problem.

 

[Thirsk]

People usually guess my age to be somewhere between 20 and 30, though I'm 17, and it've been like that for the past few years.

It must be the beard that does it.

 

[latenightapplepie]

It depends for me. Unshaved I think people think I'm older than my age (20), shaven, the opposite.

 

[Flames66]

I think you over-reacted. No offense, but just showing her the ID should have been enough.
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Overreact? You try pulling a card out of your pocket!

Try wearing pants that don't cut off the circulation to your legs.

I don't get why anyone would wear trousers that you can't move in, can't put anything in the pockets and make you look like an ostrich. Wear combat trousers.

Ya, I'm 20 and people tend to think that I'm like 25 or 26, I could care less though it's probably better to look older anyways.

Sorry to be a grammar nazi but what do you actually mean here?

 

[Berserker119]

I get confused for being a lot older than I am. After all, I'm about 6"3, and I have a beard, so people wouldn't really think I'm 15.

 

[Vrex360]

I'm nineteen and people always seem to think I am much, much older.
Once, not too long ago I was with my mother and my sister while she was looking at potential wedding dresses (I know, a male going into unfamiliar territory but given I was largley raised by a mother and two sisters and a father constantly on work trips it wasn't too surprising) I recall a shop attendant asking my sister why her 'fiance' seemed so disinterested in the purchases.
Apparently this happens quite a lot and it's a little awkward for her to have to explain:
"No, this is my brother... who is eight years younger than me."

 

[Randamo]

I'm 18, always looked younger. It's the height and the baby face. In high school everyone thought I was in the 7th grade when I was a senior. I left school early and went to tafe, so most people assume i'm in my 20's.
One guy who went to tafe with me thought i was 21-22 when i was 17. The same year I was trying on shoes at a store with my mother and the saleswoman asked if I was too young to start wearing heels.

 

[iFail69]

people have always thought I look older than I am. Bought my first drink when I was 15 (I think being 196cm tall helps a bunch ) and nowadays when I go out, I am never IDed.

 

[Snowpact]

As much fun I can have (and have had) with my 'older look', I seriously don't hope that by the time I turn thirty, that I wind up looking 45...

You should hope you look like a good looking, healthy 45 year old and not one who looks like a human train wreck.

Well, we can always hope, of course. Depends whether I turn alcoholic or not, I assume ;-).

 

[NotAPie]

16 and I look 14.
However that does make me a cutie pie I was blessed with shortness and puppy eyes.
Edit: One more thing, it's kinda funny I look really young but I sound like a 20 year old.

 

[Edorf]

I'm 16, I look like I'm 18 and sound like I'm 22+

But then again, looking older than you really are loses it's level of amusement when you get over 35 I've heard :<

 

[iFail69]

at 15 I was 196cm (stopped growing though) so I was always able to buy drinks (sometimes) and movie tickets because people thought I was 18. nowadays, I NEVER get IDed (and I'm now 18, 19 soon)

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

people say I look about 23-25.

I'm thirteen.

uh... yay I guess?

well, actually its not that surpirising. Im bordering on 6-foot, and people in hawaii arent exactly tall. usually. not to mention the way I dress. (its more common among office workers than people my age,levis and clad shirts. the levis are hot as hell though,so Im not ALWAYS twice my age.)