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Looking your age. Do you look older than your age? Younger? Right on?

Are you one of those weirdo people who get irately offended when you're ID'd for things that you're plenty old enough to purchase/participate in?

I look about ten years younger than I am, because good health, lack of stress, and strong Italian genetics. I get carded depending on who I'm with. If I'm with my younger friends or co-workers, I get carded 50/50. If I'm with someone older, like my Mom or my sister, I always get carded. If I'm at a store I always get carded, but their policy is "looks under 40", so whatever. I don't care. It's their job.

Edited 2018-03-21 23:07 (UTC)

I rarely get carded for anything anymore, and when I do I assume it's because of a policy to card everyone who isn't obviously middle aged or older, and not because they think I look that young. Still, people tend to assume I'm at least a bit younger than I am, maybe 30-ish rather than the 38 or reality.

The gray in my hair tends to confuse people. Once in my late 20s, by which time I had visible salt-and-pepper, I went to get it cut and when the stylist was asking for my life story, she kept trying to add more time in there as if she needed me to be older. "So you took a bunch of time off between college and grad school, right? Oh, so grad school was quite a while ago, then?" If I cover the gray, people have tended to think I'm a lot younger. Currently, I get most of the gray dyed over, but leave this one clump where the gray was coming in more thickly, so I've got a bit of a stripe going, and that seems to walk the right line between "old enough to be afforded respect" up-close, and looking young from a distance.

I don't particularly like being mistaken for a high school kid because I'm 56.

How come?

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I'm honestly not sure. I've heard both. I think I have a bit of a baby face, but I'm a fat woman, which ages me. So I can look either depending on the situation.

I feel older. I look younger. Weird combo.

I was once asked for ID by someone I used to babysit. They did a fucking triple take because I still look like a teenager even though I'm closer to 30. I was like "YES I AM THE GHOST OF BABYSITTERS PAST, NOW LET ME BUY THIS VODKA MARK OR I WILL CALL YOUR MOTHER."

To be fair, I only get real ticked off when people ask me for ID and not my friends, because I AM THE OLDEST AND IT IS NOT FAIR.

I'm the oldest in my friend group and I get ID'ed for everything, including at the movie theater. I know it's a weird thing to be annoyed by, but it bugs me. Damn it, I'm four years older than one of them, why do I get ID'ed and he doesn't?

I look my age now. My face is rather sharp or angular, for the lack of a better word, so I looked older than my age when I was younger. My body on the other hand looks younger than my age.

I still look like I'm a teenager apparently, but I also don't really dress how a 30 year old would dress? Or at least how people think a 30 year old should dress at any rate.

I wear a lot of superhero t-shirts or gothy/punky clothes so that ages me down I think.

Even when I'm with my bf and we're just going into a pub to get food if they've got bouncers I'll get carded or the bar-staff will reuse to serve me because they think I'm too young to drink, and it's pretty embarrassing because I rarely have ID on me and I get started at like I did something wrong. I was just trying to eat!

I think I look my age, but people assume I'm younger because I'm short. I don't get seriously offended when say, they're giving out free samples at the grocery store and the sample person says I need to get my mom's permission to get a sample. I actually find that pretty amusing. I do get annoyed when my coworkers don't take me seriously because somehow shortnes equals cute and cute equals inexperience in their minds.

I'm 34 and people generally peg me as being around 18, so...

It doesn't bother me one bit. I know I've got good genes and I'm perfectly happy with it. Honestly, I'm more surprised when people DON'T card me for things because I'm well aware that I look young for my age.

Apparently I look about ten years younger than I am (I’m 27). Most places around here card anyone who looks under 40 anyway, so it never really comes up.

I think right on - though I will occasionally get varied assumptions. It kinda depends on if I'm sitting or standing, cause I'm crazy short and people will sometimes guess younger cause of that.

most people put me about ten years younger than i am - it's probably lucky genetics (my dad doesn't look his age either)

which is fine in some ways ("hey, apparently i don't look 37!") - and it's not like i do anything that i'd need to be carded for anyway - but i do sometimes find that people assume that i can be dismissed as some ignorant youth, and not realise there's a bit more life experience to credit underneath

plus there's the ever-patronising "kid" descriptor :p

I apparently look much younger than I actually am. I don't like it, and it does bother me a bit when I get carded when no one else in a group does. I'll just nth what other people described it as, which is having to wonder if I'm somehow immature looking or acting. My face honestly really does not look that young. I've got grey hairs and fine lines ffs. So it's like, am I just failing to send out the subconscious "I am a responsible adult" signal? Am I unknowingly dressing like a teenager? Is it because I'm too short or skinny? Why???!

Plus I've noticed people kind of dismissing me as not knowing what I'm doing bc I look young. (Sort of the "I want to speak to the manager" "I am the manager" type of thing, I guess.)

I was just asked what I'm studying at uni today. I'm forty.

Heh. Been a while since that happened.

Apparently I'm ageless, since it's rare people peg me at the right age. I'm about to turn 40, and I've had some people take me for being in my twenties, while others peg me as old enough for senior discounts. Ah, well.

I still get carded even though I'm 40. I don't think I look 40, I probably look more in my mid-thirties or maybe earlier.

I think i look my age, but people seem to think I'm younger than I am, which i find odd.

I don't give a fuck if i get ID'd or not, it's the job. Getting offended is really stupid.

I'm 50 and I look older. Lots of wrinkles on my face. Now and then I get the senior discount, which usually starts around 60. It doesn't make me irate and hey, it saves me money, but it makes me feel old.

I went to the museum with my sister and got the "12 and under" discount. I'm 30. It really bothers me. I'm making an effort to look my age and it kills me every time I'm offered a kid's menu.

I have inherited the family baby face. I told people I was moving to study at university and they all asked when I was finishing high school, but I am in my twenty-five and am moving for postgraduate study. Also, my older brother is regularly asked for ID when buying alcohol and it bothers him but I think it's funny being asked for ID because people are always surprised by how old I am.

30 now, still carded all the time, but I don't feel offended OR flattered because, having been a server, I know that carding is often just part of the job. Still have that whole "card everyone or we could lose our liquor license and you get fired" speech from the summer I was 19 in my head.

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