I've always been told I look younger than my age. When I turned 31 I was told by someone at school I look maybe 23. I think I get it from my dad. He didn't start looking his age until about his late 40s/early 50s. Unfortunately I also got his balding at a young age gene. lol
I have a little extra weight and a round face...so that handles wrinkles pretty well, but they're still there. Skin is in good shape for now, but since moving to Florida I know it's only a matter of time before I resemble a broken in baseball glove.
Of course, the grey hair showing up at the temples and beginning to run through a full beard are dead giveaways too.
I haven't asked anyone to guess my age in a long time, but they're usually off by a couple years younger. Not enough to take seriously as most people undershoot in order to not offend.
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I get mistaken for being in my early 40's and i'm 57.
True story. A year ago I was having a conversation with the head life guard at our local pool. As we're talking a couple of her senior staff walked in and joined the conversation. A question came up asking how old I was and for fun I asked them to take a guess. Surprisingly they all said I was in my early 40's. But you have most of your hair and your skin is soooo smooth were the comments as they all ran up and ran their fingers through my hair
Oh man I'm literally laughing out loud at this post. There is no way this is a true story.
I lie about my age all the time, taking ~10 years off, typically, and rarely get called on it. In the business I work in (erotica) I can't tell people the truth (I'm 63).
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I was carded for ID until my late 20's. One time I was in the peanuts pub in the Carriage House Inn when the bouncer questioned my ID and hauled me into the backroom to phone my parents. I gave him my parents number and the next thing I knew the phone reciever was moving away from his ear with a quiet tone in his voice. I asked what happened and he basicly said that my dad told him if he didn't give me a beer he was going to come down there and kick his arse. I got an apology from the bouncer and a free pitcher of draft for our table.
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Kinda funny. On one side of the family all the Men can grow big lumberjack beards (Grandfather and uncles were actual lumberjacks) on the other side Men can't grow anything. I fall on the latter side.
Does anyone else forget how old they are? I don't really obsess about it like some people, and sometimes when I'm asked or have to put it on a form, I have to stop and think, wait...how old am I?
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Does anyone else forget how old they are? I don't really obsess about it like some people, and sometimes when I'm asked or have to put it on a form, I have to stop and think, wait...how old am I?
Yeah, I think I'm perpetually 27.
A funny side story that just popped into my head:
My oldest sister told me how when she was a kid, she would get actual anxiety that she would forget her age, so from the age of basically 4 or 5 until 11, she compulsively wrote her age down on every piece of paper she came across to make sure she'd never forget her age. LoL, kids.
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Does anyone else forget how old they are? I don't really obsess about it like some people, and sometimes when I'm asked or have to put it on a form, I have to stop and think, wait...how old am I?
I mentally advance to the "next" age about 6 months before my next birthday. I don't know why, but it makes for a confusing half-year.
I do this for myself, and my kids, and our dog. It drives my wife nuts.
I also did forget my age once. In my 34th year I thought I was 35 for a few weeks before my wife corrected me.
I've also forgotten my own birthday until the first person mentioned it to me.
Come to think of it, maybe I'm just an idiot??
It started for me around then too. People all me how old I am and I always say a year now than I am and correct myself. My wife was born in the same year as me but 9 months earlier so I think I just assume her age myself
I used to obsess over the fact that I looked older than my age.
Or at least people would constantly guess an age 5-10 years above it.
But then I used it to my advantage, especially in the job arena, the grey hairs and mature conversations haven't hurt one bit in the roles and experience I've been able to take on.
