I, too, am among the seemingly-countless numbers of people who are 19 (20 in June!) but look older.
Once, while grocery shopping late at night (doing favors for the parents, don’tcha know), a bunch of kids wanted me to buy booze for them. They were probably 14 or 15. It was amusing watching them realize that I wasn’t 25.
I hate being mistaken for 25. I also hate being 19. I still wish I was 10.
I’m 24, and I still get carded - legal age for buying alcohol and cigarettes here is 18!
An associate of my fiance (who met me at least half a dozen times before this) asked him if he had a girlfriend. When my fiance said yes, and told him I was his g/f, the guy exclaimed “What! Little cazzle!”. He thought I was about 16.
My little brother is 21, and is usually mistaken for being my older brother.
I frequently get asked if I’m still at school. Like the other posters, I figure I’ll be grateful for this in a few more years 
Everyone thinks I’m actually older than I am. I’m 19, and when I first started at this store, I was on work study, in high school . I was 17 at the time. Since I got there at noon, everyone assumed I was in college. Everyone tells me now I could pass for 23 easily. I think a lot of it has to do with my attitude…I’m reasonably mature for a teenager
Course, when I’m 40, I’ll be praying for that youthful innocence look again…
People who don’t know me think that my younger sister (16) is older than me (17) … then they look at me suspiciously and go “Really?” when I tell them that they’re wrong. I’m almost 18 and I look about 12. I’ve been getting concession (under 14) tickets without asking for years now.
It’s one of those situations where you don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Yeah…back when I was a senior in college(at age 21), I was home for winter break and had to go to my grandfather’s funeral. While at the visitation, I was standing next to my younger brother(8 years younger, no less) and one of his teachers came up and said to him “I didn’t know you have a twin sister” and to me “What school do you go to?”
I replied with “Colby College, in Maine”, and ended up just grinning. It doesn’t even begin to stress me out anymore.
I get “you are too young to have a Ph.D.” quite a bit. I don’t tend to tell them I got it 10 years ago. I don’t know if people who say that really think I look young, or if 40 seems young to have one.
On the other hand, people who don’t know my profession usually guess that I am younger than I am, so maybe I do look younger than my age.
Think I will go with the flattering interpretation.
No one can guess my age correct if they don’t know it,
usually they guess around 25 even younger sometimes,
but I’m 37, so that is flattering I think.
I hope I will continue to look young a long time.
2 years ago I got carded buying alcohol, have to be 20 here in Sweden,
that was fun.
I have always looked younger than I am and on more than a few occasions have won bets on what my age is. There are few things better than free beer.
On my 30th birthday I had a few people swearing up and down I couldn’t have been any older than twenty four. People have often pegged me as being the same age as Lola who is six years younger than me. Maybe I look my age and she looks thirty five? (I may burn for that statement).
I was bartending when I was eighteen and more than a few customers asked if I was old enough to be working the bar.
My biggest problem is that people seem to have an age bias and if they think you’re a wet behind the ears twenty something you don’t get any respect. I went through this in my early thirties.
These days I still get people guessing my age as being much younger than I am. Perhaps it’s just my youthful exuberance because I don’t know how they can miss the wrinkles and thinnning hair.
I have more wrinkles than my mother and she’s seventy two.
People often wonder why she retired “early”.
It has changed over the years. When I was 12, people would ask me where I parked my car. When I was 13, people would ask me what my major in college was. At the age of 17, I realized that I could get into the bar without being ID’d. By 18, a lot of people thought I was 24 or 25.
Then, the trend reversed.
I’m 29 now, and get ID’d for smokes. When I went back to school, people thought I was 21. When I mention that my oldest will be 11 this year, jaws drop. I sometimes feel a slight lack of respect from people my age and just older. “You’ll see things differently when you turn 30”. What, in 6 months?? Yeah, I’m sure lots will change. For the record, I think I look my age.
I think it’s genetic, because my dad has always looked at least 15 years younger than he is. Even now that his health is failing, I doubt anyone would peg him for being 73 this year. My sister also looks younger than she is. She’s 38 this year, and she looks around 30, maybe just over. I’ve seen some of her old classmates, and most of them look like they’re in their mid-forties. I can’t believe they went to school together.
I drive a shuttle at work, and am often asked the usual banal questions (think taxicab confessions, but totally uninteresting). Invaribaly, they as if I’m full time, and when I say yes they as how old I am. When I say I’m 26, they’re shocked. They tell me I only look 18 or 19. I don’t mind that at all really, but I’ve been through the whole routine so many times it’s ridiculous.
I also get carded at the liquor store. Damn near every time.
I’m 18 (gonna be 19 on Tuesday!!!). People always ask how old I am and then are surprised when I say 18. Most people think I’m like 12. My mom is the same way. People think that my dad is HER dad. (Does that make sense?) But, actually my parents are the same age. My mom looks younger than she is and my dad looks a heck of a lot older. Shhhhh! Nobody tell him I said that!!!
I’m 36 but most people think I’m about 28. I have no grey hair and no wrinkles or that crepe-like neck skin that gives most everyone away, no matter how youthful they otherwise look or act.
Did I mention how much I love SFP 15?
I’m 33 and have consistently looked ten years older than I am ever since I grew a mustache at 14 ( these days it’s the gray that does it :rolleyes: ). My older step-brother’s friends on a couple of occasions asked him ( in High School ) if his “older brother” could go buy them some beer 
. I was also mistaken for the school janitor by some younger kids once.
What’s even worse - My mother looks ten years younger than she is. Nothing more aggravating than being at a restaurant and being mistaken by some gabby waitress as a “couple”. Argh! Happens more often that I care to think about 
. ( My mother, of course, loves it 
.)
I’m 36 but a lot of people tell me I look about 10 years younger. I tell them it’s just because I’m really immature.
Anniz! 37? I simply cannot believe it. No offense or anything, but I’m really shocked. I hope you take that as a compliment.
I used to look older than I was, but now I think I look my age, I’m 27. Have a look.
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Apparently, I never looked like a teenager. Right now I’m eighteen, and people always tell me I look like I’m in my mid-twenties. When I was about fifteen or sixteen, people thought I was two or three years younger than I was. I attribute this to having grown about a foot over this time…
This must be a coastal thing. Back on the East Coast, I never got carded for smokes or alcohol. (I’m almost 24.) Since I’ve been here in California, I’ve been carded almost every time I buy cigarettes. Now, I’m not offended and am glad the cashiers are doing their job, but it gets damn annoying when the same guy every time asks for my id and says “Oh, you look like you’re 17!” I’m really skinny and tall, so it must make me look young.
Not to mention I still have a Rhode Island license. I get all sorts of odd questions about that.
I tend to get my age mistaken often. People always pick me for being older then I am (24). When I was late teens early 20s I used to get picked for being mid to late 20s, now I get anywhere from late twenties to early thirties :eek:
It prolly has a lot to do with my receeding hair (which I cut short so it doesn’t bother me) but also my attitude. Many people have said that I am very mature, which is pleasing. People say I think and act older than I am.
It does not really bother me too much though, age is just a number and I don’t feel any different than I did when I was 17 or 18.
Rick
My 47th b-day was in January. Despite the lines around my eyes and the tri-focals (OK, so they’re progressives and no one can really tell), people seem to think I’m younger. I get a LOT of disbelief when I use vid-chat - or maybe the guys think I’ll get nekkid because they flatter me.
Either way, it don’t make me no never mind. I have no probs telling folks my age.
I’m 18. People who come into the store where I work are always surprised to hear that I’m in school, and then they assume I’m in college; I tell them I’m in high school, and they say “No way, you look 25.” I also get hit on by lots of 28-35 y/o men who honesty think I’m in their dating age range. This has been happening since I was 16.