I’m 29 but I get told I look 18-19. And the people who tell me this regularly see a lot of people on the daily, from police officers to nurses to salon workers. When I tell them my actual age they literally gasp or laugh at me. The older I get, the more pronounced their reaction is. Doctors were saying “you definitely have something wrong, I can tell just by looking at you” but then the hormonal results all came back normal and they just shrugged. Another weird thing is anti-loitering devices hurt my ears, and those aren’t supposed to affect people older than 20.

  • Today@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I used to get that a lot. I was constantly carded. Once they wouldn’t sell to me, even with my ID, because I had the babysitter with me and they thought we were both underage trying to buy alcohol. When I was about 25 I started adding10 years to my age when people asked, just to see the reaction.

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yeah my brother said you should always tell people you are older than you are, so that they think you look good for your age.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      2 days ago

      When I was about 25 I started adding10 years to my age when people asked, just to see the reaction.

      I love it. This is the way.