People saying you look young for your age

People do it to me. I’m 4’8” with a baby face. I’m 30 and I think I look 30. My friends don’t look like they’re in their 30s either to be honest and when I give my ID in, people apologise and say “oh wow you look 23!!” Yeah I know, I’ve not grown since I was 11. 🤣

23 is oddly specific.

@AmethystDeceiver I was exactly the same , had both my children before my mid twenties, in my 30s in my 40s when they used to introduce me to their friends especially female friends I used to be able to see their brains working to see how old I was my boys always used to come back and say to me I was asked twice today how old you were. .. Getting old is shit

Well yes kinda... My dad and granddad both died young so I try and view getting old as a gift that not everyone is given, and so fuck the wrinkles and gray hair, it beats the alternative!!

@AmethystDeceiver ,yes I agree to some extent, but I look at a lot of old old people move, and they just existing,

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People really have no clue how other adults look. I've been told I don't look 40+ as have my peers of the same age. Generally those over 60 or under 30 are surprised that we are old enough to have teens or young adult dc.

That is just how (female,) adults look now .It is rare to meet someone a similar age who looks 'old' .

I agree that very elderly people look very elderly, although some are less weathered than others . It is how they carry themselves and act that makes them appear more youthful.

Saying someone looks 'good ' for their age is compliment, saying they look young is an observation. There are many unattractive young people.

Rapid ageing yikes! Yeah I can see how that might happen! I think for me it’s also partly because of my mannerisms and I have a round-ish face and I’m short-ish.

That’s so funny. Some people probably thought your kid was your little sister when you were younger! 😆

I dont have kids but my mate was a 7th grade teacher in the US. I went to visit her class when I was staying with her and they all started expressing their excitement that a new student was joining. To be clear “the new student” was me and I was 25!

And btw for the people who keep saying we are stealth boasting (or lying) we’re really not. Or I’m not anyway.
Just because no one has thought you were considerably younger it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

As I said before, plenty of my friends who are considered to look older look better than me. Looking young does not equal looking good.
I remember an absolute beautiful slim well groomed girl of age 21 said she wants to look like me when she was my age.

I am 💯certain she did not actually want to look like me, but just wanted to look as young as me!

A bit of an aside to all this, but my family genuinely all look incredibly young and are hyper mobile... Until this thread I had no idea there was a connection!!!

Exactly that. I don’t go about my life thinking about how old or young i look, it’s just a fact of my life that people have brought it up lots of times. It’s a objective fact that I have very few lines and wrinkles for my age because of my connective tissue disorder, it’s one of the diagnostic criteria. I dye my hair ludicrous colours because it brings me joy and it’s definitely the case that people have assumed i’m younger because typically that’s a thing younger people do. It’s not a boast in my case, looking young doesn’t equal looking better to me.

I’m 40s and get mistaken for 30 most of the time. In general I enjoy looking young (knowing one day it will catch up with me), but I don’t enjoy it at work as I feel people don’t take me seriously. My DH also looks very young for his age and feels the same about work.

@Percypiggz sometimes people just say it to be polite and fill conversation.

I’ve always looked young for my age. Even now, in my 50s. I laugh it off and just say “I’ve got good genes”.

Same but early 60’s. I fucking love it! People are always shocked that I have a daughter in her 40’s!!

Although I think it’s for a variety of reasons. I work with young people in their 30’s, dress like them and do a very adventurous stuff in my spare time.

i don’t think I actually look that young but they (being so young) don’t think that someone double their age can be fit and still play a team sport.

But hey I don’t care, I love it anyway.

Interesting. I had the DC quite late, in my mid/late 30s and DD is 28. I think having children who are young relative to me had helped and working of course, with younger people and staying tethered to "life". And doing an intellectually tough job that keeps the brain cells churning.

Not sporty but active and always doing something.

Then, of course, the genes. My mother is nearly 90 and still looks fab despite some serious conditions. Her DH is 8 years younger and she's always said "you're as old as the man you feel".

I supppse it's a combination of things but largely it's about outlook and thinking yiung helps.

I think people automatically compare you to the oldest looking person they know who is the same age. I’m 59 and get it all of the time. I think I look 59, but I look after myself and I’m not weathered at all, loads of my friends look the same as me, I don’t think I’m some sort of genetic marvel lol. But there’s also a lot of people my age who look wrinklier and dress in clothes I wouldn’t wear as I’d associate them more with my 82 year old mother, and those are the people I’m being compared to.