How old do I look?

[photosynthesis]

are you short? I get told that I look younger all the time, but I think it's mostly because I'm only 5'2

[Totus Tuus]

People have always thought I was older, and I never minded. But I guess it's different when they think you're younger than you are. However, there [i]are[/i] benefits to looking like you're twelve. I could barely get away with ordering a child's plate at a restaurant when I was twelve years old, much less eighteen, but you on the other hand might have that capability.

[scardella]

You look older than the sea and younger than a newborn babe. How's that?

[philothea]

[quote name='Dust's Sister' date='Nov 10 2005, 01:04 AM']gosh...

got a picture online? I'd like to see.....
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Nothing current, and nothing that isn't kind of distant and blurry. (I try to avoid cameras!)

I'll see if I can find something to post.

[quote name='Dust's Sister' date='Nov 10 2005, 01:04 AM']I went to vegas twice this year and I was asked for my ID several times...

one time this one guy asked for my ID.. and then he was like 15 feet from the security area (where this guy sat) and he had to get the gaurd that checked my ID to go over there just so HE can have proof that I was 21.... he said  I was about the youngest looking 23 year old he ever seen. lol
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I was just thinking about how when I was 18, no one carded me! But at that time I was running a design business, so I wore makeup, nice clothes, and had my hair professionally styled.

Nowadays I dress like a lazy college student and everyone thinks I'm a kid.

From the pictures I've seen of us who seem to be young-looking, I think there are some similarities. Any of you have the real rosy-cheeks (that annoyingly turn bright red with exertion )?

FWIW, I'm 5'6", so it's not my height.

[zabbazooey]

I get mistaken for 12 all the time. The other month, I got handed a balloon and a kid's menu in a restaurant. And i DROVE there!

[avemaria40]

I'm 16 and I get mistaken for thirteen all the time, while my sister who is younger than me looks older than me

[tojo]

I'm almost 22, and when I'm clean-shaven people think I'm about 16 years old, but then I am a bit on the short side.

[philothea]

[quote name='philothea' date='Nov 10 2005, 03:22 PM']Nothing current, and nothing that isn't kind of distant and blurry. (I try to avoid cameras!)

I'll see if I can find something to post.
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Hrmn, well this is the only recent picture I could find. The ever popular "What [i]are[/i] you doing with that camera?" smirk.

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So, I dunno, do I look 35?

[Dust's Sister]

[quote name='philothea' date='Nov 12 2005, 12:32 AM']Hrmn, well this is the only recent picture I could find.  The ever popular "What [i]are[/i] you doing with that camera?" smirk. 

[img]http://www.mtco.com/~lbamber/laurel.jpg[/img]

So, I dunno, do I look 35? 
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nah, you look like your about 25!

[philothea]

[quote name='Dust's Sister' date='Nov 12 2005, 12:39 AM']nah, you look like your about 25!
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Well, there ya go. In another 10 or so years your peers will envy you. Until then, keep an ID handy!

[Dust's Sister]

[quote name='zabbazooey' date='Nov 10 2005, 04:40 PM']I get mistaken for 12 all the time. The other month, I got handed a balloon and a kid's menu in a restaurant. And i DROVE there!
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now that's funny!

let me tell you two stories, I actually got so many

but this was within the last week...

okay, my mom and I went to an excercize place. We were registering for it. My mom was the one talking to the guy, and He was asking okay are you gonna sign anyone else up? and my mom said.. yeah, me and my daughter here. Then he said.. is she 14? and my mom goes no... and he says.. "Well she can't join then, she has to be 14 to enter the gym... and then I said.. I'm 23! almost 24.. lol.. and he said.. Oh my Gosh!... he was embarrased.. he said. "I wish I could go back in time about 4 minutes.. lol .. then the girl that was working with him over heard us and said.. Gosh, you look like your 12!

Then I was at a dentist appointment, checking out with with my mom, and we were trying to schedule for a teeth cleaning, and this was on a monday. So they were really booked up for like the next two months so we were talking about the day we could come in, and the girl goes.. "Well I don't want your daughter to miss another school day". .. lol and I just put my head over the table in shame for a little bit and my mom told her.. "She already graduated from Collage!".. the lady was like, "Oh, I am sooo sorry! Please forgive me!".. I was like, it's okay! lol...

but I got many other stories I could write a book about it one of these days.

and yeah I am short, I am only 5'0 and I don't wear make up, I basically kinda have the body of a 12 or 14 year old, so I can see why they mistake me for being 12.. I'm just too lazy to learn how to put on make up and stuff. I grew up as a tom boy so I really don't get out there and dress nice.