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Last year, my 17-y.o. brother's friends who saw me with him thought I was his girlfriend. Today, when we were coming back from my grandma, we were approached by JW's. We got 2 booklets, which, as I found at home, are specifically directed at teenagers (at least I learned that if a boy refuses my offer to date him, it means he's not ready for it yet, but respects our friendship ).
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Last year I got asked for id when I rented a 15 rated video. When I told the girl at the counter that I was twenty, she laughed and asked me 'if I was sure.'
So far since then makeup is working for me.
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People regularly say my girlfriend looks 15 when she's nearly 20. Most people think I look older than I am (20), probably because I already have creases in my forehead. Damn foldy skin! Posts: 903 | Registered: May 2003
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People usually think I'm older than I am, but I'm young enough that it's okay. (I'm hoping the trend will reverse when I hit 40... )
A few days ago, someone stopped me in the hall of my high school and welcomed me back. I asked what they were talking about, and they thought I had graduated two or three years ago!
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People used to think I looked far older than I was. Now, it has reversed. I also don't wear makeup, so I guess that has something to do with it.
I constantly get treated like "well done! you did it by yourself!" .
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I looked older than my age when i was a teenager, then I looked younger than my age until I was 35, and now I just look my age, darn it.
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I used to get children's menus at restraunts until I was 19. I'm 24 now and most people say I look about 20. I guess it's a good thing... Posts: 1295 | Registered: Jan 2003
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I don't know... I wouldn't refuse a date with kama if she asked. I guess that means I don't respect her? Posts: 4112 | Registered: May 2001
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Tom, I don't recall asking Hatrackers out on a date. I asked several to marry me, but I suppose it's different.
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You're probably right, Kama. It's odd that the JW manual doesn't have more to say on the issue of marriage proposals.
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I have always looked younger than my age. When I was 22 or 24, a 14 year old kid tried to pick me up at a football game.
Looking younger than your age is something you don't really appreciate when you are in your teens and 20's, but start to appreciate more as you get older.
Now, I pretty much look my age, because my hair started going grey in my late 20's, and is mostly grey now. I have no doubt that if I dyed my hair I'd look 10 years younger than I am.
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Actually, as a result of my grey hair, I was given a senior citizens' discount on a cup of coffee at McDonald's while shopping with my daughter in MA.
I've been thinking I should exploit it. Posts: 5771 | Registered: Nov 2000
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I am 17 and every time I go into a restaurant with a bar section and a family dinning section, they always seat me in the bar. I also always get offered alcohol when I am nice restaurants with my parents.
The downside to looking younger is that older guys make a pass at you and you have to explain that you are 5 years younger then they think you are.
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p-Thong, I think you should probably go check the responses on your "Why won't anyone talk to me" thread.
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I accept that, ElJay. I read all his posts before I posted that. So far, he has added nothing to the forum.
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Oh, so did I, and I totally agree with you. And I don't really have high expectations that he'll go and read everyone's advice and become a steller member of the forum. But it could happen. *shrug* Posts: 7954 | Registered: Mar 2004
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Damn, I gave him a cookie in another thread. Does this mean he'll grow as big as Tokyo skyscrapers like some horrible B-movie scifi alien-mutant-creature? Posts: 903 | Registered: May 2003
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Haven't you read "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie"? That's the central moral of the whole story! That you should never, ever, ever give anything to anyone!
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I never though about it that way, Verily. I always thought the moral of the story is that mice should not be encouraged. I suppose you're right that the story doesn't facilitate a giving attitude.
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When I was in 7-9th grade, I probably looked younger than I really was. At least, when looking at pictures and stuff, I think I looked younger, although they may just be because I looked younger than I am now so...
Then I lost a lot of weight and people started thinking I was a senior last year (I was a sophomore). So...
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People think I'm older than I look, kind of a funny thing, really. At 13 I was always being asked from people to see my driver's liscense, at 14 I was being sent to doctors who only dealt with adults, now I'm 15, so far all that's happened is a doctor just blew off my being a bit younger than what he treated... Let us see what happens for the rest of the year?
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I always looked older when I was a teenager. When I was fifteen, I could regularly buy alcohol without getting carded. I developed early in terms of, erm, facial and bodily hair. I often dated women/girls older than me, and I remember going out to dinner with my girlfriend when I was eighteen and she was 21. The waitress asked me if I wanted a drink, looked at her, and said "Though I'm sure you're too young." Man, was she ticked! I had other experiences like that . . . one with a friend (since deceased ) in Atlanta who was twenty-one when I was eighteen or nineteen. I was given a drink without being carded, she was carded, and she did not have her ID because she was not driving.
When I turned 21, I desperately wanted to get carded, but nobody would!
But now, like some of the others, I seem to look younger than my age . . . at least when I shave I do. I remember when I posted the link to that cast picture from Barefoot in the Park last year, everyone kept saying I looked younger than they imagined. I got a lot of comments on that IRL too.
(Which makes this perhaps as good a place as any to announce that Cor and I have both been cast in Harvey! )
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At my last high school, our drama teacher's husband had to step in when a guy and his understudy both dropped out of the play. He's in his 30s, and the lead girl started hitting on him, thinking he was fifteen.
I'm seventeen and the people at Hot Topic are convinced I'm eight years old. Mainly because whenever I go there I run around going "Cool! I want one of these!"
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I look about my age. Christine, on the other hand, looks a little more than a decade younger than she really is--generally people assume that she's in her early 20s (she's 35). At the high school she taught at last year, a number of students who weren't in her classes apparently thought that she was a new student, as did the receptionist in the school's office.
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I'm 17. When people meet me, they usually assume I'm a 14 year old that hit puberty early, like at 10. I don't really know what to think about that...but I like freaking people out when I offer to drive.
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Mine tends to go the other way. I'm 20, but everyone assumes I'm like 26, probably because i have a little goatee thing, I guess it makes me look older.
But it's VERY annoying when 19 year old girls won't date me because they think I'm way too old for them. And it was very embaressing when I was still dating my ex girlfriend, who was 17 when I was 19, but she looked 15 to most people. So, you can imagine how weird it was for a girl who looked 15 (supposedly) and a guy who looked 27 (supposedly). Age guessing sucks.
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