Does anyone really look younger than their age?

[smoleyjolie]

Online on forums, social media, on dating profiles and even in real life people claim to look younger than their age, they are X age but don't look it. They get ID's in the supermarket buying wine.

I am always highly sceptical because I've know people who say to my face how they look like they are 25 when they are actually 38 because they have no lines or wrinkles when I am looking at them and thought they were actually in their 40's and they have obvious wrinkles and grey hair, people are delusional! Honestly the capacity people have to delude themselves about anything is quite staggering and I have never met someone who claims to look younger and it actually turn out to be true.

When I was younger I thought some older people looked younger so I once thought a woman when she was 49 was closer to 30 but that was because I assumed all people of 49 looked "old" which isn't the case at all and looking back she looked great but she also looked her age which is fine.

Going back to the first case where the women was convinced she looked over 10 years younger, what could I say I just said yeah you look great and its the same anytime anyone makes that claim. People aren't going to dispute it.

I’m 44 and I’d say you are about 44-48 years

I look way younger than i am and have done all my life. Its not keeping myself healthy and beautiful at all though its cause i have a childsh face. I am losing my hair now though😥, so that may give it away these days.

@Clueless2024 just think you look younger without make up. You have great skin. I think your hair and clothes are quite aging.

well actually yes lol. When I was at work and had co workers in high school they were shocked when they found out how old I was. Sucks @Golden407

Usually people who have known me for many years and haven’t seen me in a while are like “wow you look really young” also at work. I work with youth in a group home and was mistaken as being a kid in the group home. I told the lady my age and she was shocked @123letsblaze

@DelectableMe I was mistake as a client in a group home by a neighbour when I’m staff! I have a second job. There there’s some high school kids and they thought I was there ago. Very shocked when they found out how old I was. Also people who have known me for years but haven’t seen me in long time. When they see me they’re like wow you look really young.

Jimmy Krankie?

I work in a Dr clinc, so can see a patients age. Everyone looks their age, with the exception of some who look older than they are. I can guess and be pretty accurate every time.

There is the occasional mid to late nineties lady who is quite sprightly and I'm surprised by how mobile they are but that's it. No thirty-something looks 16 🤣

If you put a 34 year old person in a class of 16 year olds, they'll stick out a mile.

I'm 54 now. Up until the age of 51 I would say people would gasp when I told them my age and I know I looked young because I can see in my old photos how smooth and tight my skin was. There was literally no change in me until a few years ago. I would go out with my 25 year old son and people would we were siblings.
Now no-one gasps and it's sad.
I don't have many wrinkles it's the awful sagging I can't bear. I'm still very slim tho.

I think sometimes people mistake flattery for objective comments.

Unless you're in the cast of Grease.

Ah to be so deluded

I think that's part of the problem! If you're actually in a school with teens, you know what they look like. There's no way on God's green earth that anyone in their 30s could hang out with them, unnoticed!

Lots of tv shows and films use 20 something actors to play teens.

The best I've had was 13 years younger and a comment last week was 6 years younger.
Other peoples perceptions eh!! Does it matter?

It matters if people treat you differently due to how they perceive you to be. And some people's perceptions are way off.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60081503.amp

The above story was made into a programme with Alan Cumming and totally bizarre and very creepy. He was believed for a long time and even taught by some teachers that had taught him the first time around 😯

I have a friend who is a teacher. She is about 35 and she has been told to get in line for food because the dinner ladies thought she was one of the kids! She does look young. I don't think she looks 15 but definitely in her early 20s.

No one in their mid thirties looks 16 years old. You are completely deluded. Maybe you could post a picture?

That never happens.
Staff wear lanyards.
For safeguarding purposes, it's very clear who the teachers are.

I absolutely did, for the longest time. Not now that I'm early 50s, but back when I was around 30 I was still getting mistaken for a teenager. My opinion is that I just had kind of childish facial features and so only really started looking my age when aging of my skin became more obvious.

Lots of occasions when I was with my toddler or pre-school aged ds1 and was asked about my "little brother" in the sort of voice that older people use when they're addressing kids, or, very regularly, when people came cold-calling to the door, "Can you go get your mum/dad?"

I know adding photos to any thread like this is asking for people to add 10 years to your appearance, just to put you in your place for daring to think you might look a bit younger than you are, but seriously, does anyone here really not think I look like a kid in this photo of me holding ds1 on the day he was born (when I was close to turning 27)?

A lot of wild claims on here, plus the usual stories.

Honestly, you just look your age. You could be be mid twenties to early thirties but a teenager? No.

@TemporaryAnon you're 26 in that picture. That's quite believable. You're very attractive but you wouldn't be mistaken for a teenager - and there's nothing wrong with that!
You also look good considering you've just given birth! I looked wrecked...