# Age misperception on the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155 "2002-08-22T23:29:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/41 "2002-08-25T01:02:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*Everyone makes the silly mistake of assuming I’m in my early 20’s… but, in reality, I’m older than Time itself. \*\* Really? Wow! You don’t look a day over a millennium! ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/42 "2002-08-25T01:07:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*Everyone makes the silly mistake of assuming I’m in my early 20’s… but, in reality, I’m older than Time itself. \*\* Maybe you should change yer nic to **Methuselah**? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/43 "2002-08-25T02:09:18Z")
Thank you, everyone. FTR, I’m only 32 (my parents aren’t even 65 yet). I didn’t take it as an insult **Ace0Spades** , in fact, I was flattered. **John Carter** , I don’t know where you got the idea about my loving the Brooklyn Dodgers, but now I understand your post about me in the old superpowers thread (I’m too lazy to go searching for it). Anyway, I’ve got to go now and put my dentures back in the glass and drink my Metamucil. 😃 Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/44 "2002-08-25T02:47:25Z")
If it’s any consolation **Zev** , I thought you were mid to late 20’s. Didn’t you post some pictures some time ago of a trip you took? Maybe during the period wiped out in the crash? I seem to remember you didn’t look like I expected (people seldom do), I can’t really remember how old I estimated you were from the pictures, but I realized you were slightly older than I’d originally thought. I guess that probably isn’t any consolation at all, though. “Say, Zev, I thought you were young until I saw your pictures.” 😉 (I’m 27, so I’m not too far behind you.) ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/45 "2002-08-25T03:01:47Z")
Age aside, I’m impressed by the intelligence on this board. Even the teenagers are well read and quite eloquent. Very impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/46 "2002-08-25T04:06:05Z")
What i picture **zev** as [http://www.decipher.com/starwars/cardlists/hoth/light/large/zevsenesca.html](http://www.decipher.com/starwars/cardlists/hoth/light/large/zevsenesca.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/47 "2002-08-25T04:07:01Z")
Hmmm. I wonder how old _I_ sound? My curiosity has been piqued because I’ve met a spate of people recently who’ve assumed I’m an age that’s more than a couple of years removed from the truth - I’m wondering if the assessment is based strictly upon my appearance, or a combination of my appearance and my demeanor/conversational abilities/etc. ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/48 "2002-08-25T04:31:19Z")
I have a tendency to view most of the people posting on these boards as being more in their mid 30’s through early 40’s. **Zev** , I figured you older. **Francesca** , your only 23? Wow… I Imagined you much older. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/49 "2002-08-25T04:37:39Z")
Posted by **zev** : "John Carter, I don’t know where you got the idea about my loving the Brooklyn Dodgers, but now I understand your post about me in the old superpowers thread (I’m too lazy to go searching for it). " ooooops! **[sub]Sorry**[/sub]!:o ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/50 "2002-08-25T06:32:19Z")
I’m 17. not sure if anyone thought otherwise. But I do know a few dopers thought I was a female, so I think I’ll just mention that I’m a guy also. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/51 "2002-08-25T06:34:47Z")
Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m actually a 55 year old male trucker from Arkansas named Bob. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/52 "2002-08-25T07:50:09Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*In your case, **zev** , I think ‘Zev’ is part of it. IANAJ, but I don’t get the sense that even that many Orthodox Jews after, say, 1965 were naming their sons ‘Zev’. Maybe not even that many after 19_4\*5, AFAIK (but what the hell do _I_ know?). \*\* Heh. Another age-gap thing: The only “Zev” I’ve ever heard of is the sexy woman on Lexx. [first season “Zev” second and later seasons, after she was recreated after she died, “Xev”] ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/53 "2002-08-25T07:53:47Z")
I have absolutely no clue what age anyone would picture me as being. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/54 "2002-08-25T10:37:44Z")
I am another Doper who always assumed that **zev** was a lot older than he really is. For the record, I’m 28. I have no idea if anyone else on the boards had thought I was significantly older or younger than that. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/55 "2002-08-25T18:04:44Z")
Even Dopers who have met me face to face think I’m younger than I really am. Nothing like the combination of immaturity and good genes. 😃 BTW, I’m 32. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/56 "2002-08-26T00:31:34Z")
Even in RL people don’t get my age right I’m 28 and online people tink I’m a girl for some reason but nope I’m a guy too ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/57 "2002-08-26T01:56:38Z")
My daughter just graduated from college and my son from HS but I’m actually very, very young! No, really. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/58 "2002-08-26T02:56:39Z")
I have no idea how I sound on here (I’m guessing, oh, 9), but in reality, I’m all of 16 years. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/59 "2002-08-26T03:35:43Z")
My age is variable, like a chameleon. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155/60 "2002-08-26T06:32:38Z")
People used to mistake me for older online all the time… (In the early eighties, I used to frequent a few local BBS’s, and ended up with a university-aged peer-group… Got a few double-takes the first few times we got together in meatspace.) I imagine that this happens less frequently now that I’m in my thirties. On the other hand, in real life, people tend to assume I’m ten or fifteen years younger than I actually am, at least at first. (Especially older people.) And yes, **Zev** , I figured ya for about forty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-misperception-on-the-sdmb/125155.md?page=4)