Can a minor look older than 18?

Zapper? Like, a Nintendo light gun?

My 12 year old daughter is regularly taken for an adult. The record so far is someone guessing that she is 23. She had somebody come up and ask her for assistance in a store we were in last weekend thinking she was an employee.

She is 5’ 8" and is more developed than her mother.

And talking to her doesn’t help much, she has a naturally deep voice and the vocabulary and mode of talking of a college freshman.

I answered 12 because, while I’ve never seen a 12 year old who looked 18, i’ve seen an 18 year old who looked 12 (and was extremely pretty.) So I was afraid that I liked a girl who was 12 who looked 18 but I really like a girl who was 18 who looked like she was a girl who was 12 and looked 18.

So if I see another girl exaclty like that there’s a chance I will think she’s a girl who’s is 18 who looks a girl who was 12 and looked 18, but really is a girl who is 12 but looks like a girl who is 18 but looks like a girl who is 12 but is really 18. I’m not trying to be funny, either, that’s the best way to explain it.

No, M76 primarily as I remember though he had other rifles.

Isn’t that a Blur lyric?

No, you shouldn’t…they might reproduce. :wink:

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was frequently being mistaken for much older (I hit puberty at 11). Several times, I had much older males flirt/proposition me and then back away slowly with their hands up when they found out my age. They were not pedophiles or in any way interested in a girl so young (or in going to jail, presumably). Most assumed I was at least 17.

(perhaps ironically, as I got older, things reversed: I was typically taken for much YOUNGER than my actual age. At 35, I was routinely getting carded. At 44, I have been carded in the last yr. AND hit on by at least 4 guys in their early 20’s who obviously took me for closer to their own age. People are often amazed when they learn I have an 18 yr old son (and then they look at me as if they are trying to figure out if I was 10 or 12 when I got pregnant:D))

There’s a 13 yr old girl in our complex who could pass for 17 or 18 easily. (she’s not only large/tall and developed, but the way she dresses and makes herself up…I predict she will be pregnant before long, since her mom let’s her go out at all hours looking like a hooker and hanging out with older teens:rolleyes:)

The maturity thing is not always reliable, either. I am a returning college student currently, and so around a lot of 19-21 yr olds. Some of them sound and act pretty much like 12 or 13.:stuck_out_tongue:

I think it is totally possible for a 13 -15 year old to be mistaken for 18 or even older, esp. by someone who’s not much older themselves and has less experience judging age.

Oh, this is band-as-in-group, not band-as-in-musical-artists? Or did they just have particularly enthusiastic groupies?

But youth alone isn’t a guarantee of inexperience. An insecure, older male could easily be overwhelmed by the attention of what appears to be an attractive young woman, also.

Band as in para-military fighting group. There were lots of them during the Wars of Yugoslavian Break-up.

Band name!

As I mentioned in the other thread, I’ve known many 30-year-old Thai ladies who could pass for 16. Thais tend to look younger than they are, especially the young adults.

Always should be someone you really love…

I just discovered that the lead actor, Aaron Johnson, of Kick Ass is marrying a 43 year old and has knocked her up.

Their age difference is greater than his freaking AGE.

My grandfather was born in 1876. My grandmother was born about 1900. They married sometime before 1917 or 1918, so their age difference was greater than her age. Of course, it is more common for the man to be the older one.

I was buying beer for my father when I was 15. I was never carded, regardless of where I went. Ironically, years later, I look younger than I am and do get carded.

http://guessmyage.net/ an exercise in judgement so to speak… some of the people ARE minors, and it IS hard to guess.

That’s why you don’t guess.

You said earlier that you couldn’t be fooled, though. Can you see why–based on looking–people can’t always tell?

And that maybe in some situations, even with talking, you can’t always tell?

Interestng. I was never right. :slight_smile: I think Iwas initially cuing on things like makeup and clothing style, but even when I started looking at things like the shape of the arms, I was not right.