Not looking your age?

[Agayek]

I have the opposite problem of the OP, actually. I've always been assumed to be 2-3 years older than I actually am, due to a combination of my demeanor and the fact that I'm freaking huge. It was fun as a kid, because I've almost never been carded, even when I really was underage.

 

[Nouw]

I was mistaken for a girl a lot of times. Too many times...

I look my age though. Although I think I do...

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Sadly, during high school I looked like I was 30.

Now I'm 26 and I actually look a little younger. Odd, yes? Get carded a lot now

 

[Enemy Of The State]

I'm 15, but usually people assume I'm 13ish because I'm kinda short.

Grow, Dammit!

 

[Segadroid]

Due to my sheer size and length of 1,93 meters, they always guess me around 22 or even 25.

The growling noises from my throat, AKA my voice, aren't helping much either. <_<

 

[ilikepie59]

My friend is really short and people generally think she's about 15ish... When she's 19.

 

[Jaqen Hghar]

I think I look a bit older than I really am. Take a guess [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/uidin/DSC00767.jpg].

I wouldn't be upset if anyone said I looked older than I am. I would rather be upset if they thought I was a lot younger. So I can kinda see why you didn't tip her But still... you got your drinks. So no harm done really.

 

[Elric_de_Melnibone]

I don't really get people guessing my age.

I'm an adult, I never get asked for ID when going out or buying.
It doesn't matter to me what age people guess I am, and I believe people don't care what age I look like either - I look adult, that's enough.

So ultimately, I couldn't say what age people think I look like.

 

[thiosk]

I am twenty eight years old.

I was recently carded for a lottery ticket.

 

[RaphaelsRedemption]

I showed her my ID and said to suck on that and told her she just lost her tip for that night.

Yeah I'm pretty sure you're still 16. Maybe younger.

Lol.

Sometimes businesses get a "ID push", that is, the manager will go round telling everyone to be extra careful about checking people's ID. A lot of pubs I've been to have a compulsory ID check. It doesn't matter what you look like, they check anyway. Rudeness shouldn't happen, but, really, being rude back never makes anything better.

Bet it spoilt your whole night, didn't it?

As for me, I look mid-twenties. It's ok, seeing as I am. My boyfriend, however, is often mistaken for a lecturer at his TAFE, not a student, due to his beard and widow's peak! I love watching when this happens

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

I look a year or so older then I am (16). But in China however.. I was there recently and they have no clue on how to tell a westerners age. I got into Disneyland at a lowered rate because I pretended to be 11, and got beer pretending to be 25.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

I'm 18, nearly 19, I play senior grade football, every week I get people telling me to "go back to primary school" I've also had a few guys congratulate me because "it's great that a kid so young is already playing with the men..." Yeah I kinda don't have a choice...

I get ID'd every time I go anywhere, clubs, pubs, bottle'Os, oh as well as the fact that I often get ID'd when I go to see a MA15+ movie (not to mention R) and when I buy MA15+ games. I hate looking so young...

 

[Soxafloppin]

After i grew my hair out aparently i looked alot older, which is wierd because i thought that it would have had the reverse effect.

 

[Lemon Of Life]

I'm 15 and look maybe a couple of years older.

 

[JIst00]

I still get asked for ID occasionally. Im 27. I dont even have that much of a baby face, especially when its covered in stubble. Unfortunately, this happens, and while it's annoying to be asked, they do have a duty when selling alcohol or tobacco products to ensure that they customer is of the legal age, the fines the seller can face, and the individual that serves underage people can be monstrous. Also, Im not sure about elsewhere in the world, but I do know that underage people are paid by the governing body specifically to catch people out.

I suppose it is a compliment, for me at least, to be asked, Id rather look 9-10 years younger that 9-10 years older ^^.

 

[ZephrC]

People have always thought I looked younger than I really am. Now that people think I'm in my mid-twenties when I'm really 32 I'm pretty cool with it though.

 

[sjarri]

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[yoyo13rom]

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?

I have a 2 school mates that experienced the exact same thing(the only difference is that here the drinking age is over 18, now 21).
I usually look my age(or an year older, I think), because I usually go unshaved in town(and man do I got a beard sometimes).

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

It varies a lot, usually I look 1-2 years younger (which is seriously annoying when that puts you below 15 years old, not letting you buy DVDs, games etc). But depending on hwat I wear I can look up to 17.

 

[dex-dex]

I look my age. I'm 20. With facial hair, I've never been asked for ID when buying 38 - 58% alcohol.
Shaved I look around 18 I suppose.