To think she thought I was 10 years younger than I am

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I was at the dentist yesterday. The receptionist asked my date of birth first, and I gave it , and she then asked my name. She then quiried if it was the ' somethingth' or the 'twenty- somethingth' and I confirmed the correct one. ( I referred to the month by name).

She said there was nobody coming up. Then she asked if I was at the correct dentists. I was because I always go there. She asked me if I was sure I was I was actually registered because they had no patients with that dob 1993. I was born in 1983. She finds me , and I have my check up.

Then I've been thinking, she didn’t check the year at all, so she must have took me as being 31, 10 years younger than I am .

But according to mumsnet, nobody can ever be mistaken for 10 years younger than their actual age, in the real world.

Sound like she just misheard the year. I doubt she gave any thought to how old you are.

Ahhh OP you should have just taken the compliment and left it at that instead of brining it to Mumsnet where undoubtedly you will be told that couldn’t happen - but I think yes, it probably was the case.

I think she just misheard the date - sorry! I’ve done that a few times with 80s and 90s.

she just misheard the year, she wasn’t going on your appearance 😂

Oh cmon, I know you’re being nice, but no way was she sitting judging th ops age and guessing her dob. She just misheard and didn’t do the math.

Sounds like she misheard you

Some early thirties people do look very very young. I did until I was about 33/34, absolutely young and baby-faced looking, and then I hurtled towards looking my age with two young children, then it evened out again, and now I have the jowls/facial appearance of someone my age (mid-fifties).

I don't think it's so much disbelief, but people can also appear younger by wearing younger generation clothes, and many younger people are bad at guessing ages. Older people usually know what to look for to tell age because they spend ages staring at their own wrinkles etc so are not as easily fooled, but they might be by a young person who just appears 'young' to them, as young people are also fooled by 'older people' (they don't know the decades!)

Brace yourself, you've just released the hounds.

She was hardly going to say "1993...blimey you've had a hard paper round" was she?!

If you deal with the public daily you come to realise that people can look older or younger than you'd expect for their age (if you know their age). I doubt she was looking at you and felt you couldnt possibly be 40 unless you genuinely look like you're in your early 20s. She might have felt you look good for your age, but most likely she misheard your dob

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No one can really tell you if you pass for 10yrs younger without knowing what you look like.

But ignore MN if they claim it’s impossible. I’m 39 and am never not IDd when I buy alcohol! I’m sure my luck will change one day.

I’m sure you look fabulous for your age OP but really the receptionist obviously just misheard the year and was struggling to find you on the system, she likely didn’t do the mental maths to find your age. It’s highly unlikely she was going to say “you look older than that are you sure about the year” 🤣

and I’m sure all the “I look 10 years younger than I am” people will be here soon…..I say prove it then with a picture!

Yanbu. I've just had a significant birthday and people have been doing a double take.

One of my colleagues assumed I had my kids really young.

I imagine she put in the dob you gave and misheard you say 1983...so she put in 93. This would probably only pull up those with that dob...then she didn't see your name obviously. She then most likely searched your name rather than dob and saw you come up in the system with the dob corrected to 1983 and realised she had misheard you.

Do you actually look younger though? Because she probably just misheard the year

Someone once took my birth year down as 2004. I can assure you I did not look 6 at the time. The two children clinging to me should have given that one away.

So you think that she ignored the year that you gave her because she assumed that you must be ten years younger because you don’t think that you look your age? 😂

I don't think in this case it means anything but some people do look a lot younger than their age. I always have done and so has my dad. And yes, people have told us this.

When my dad was retiring at 60, people asked him why he was retiring early. When my mum was in a care home, one of the staff once said to me something along the lines of him being much younger than her. He is not, just a few months younger.

I've worked in a similar role and when someone told me their date of birth...I typed it in roboticly, i never actually thought to myself, oh they're 23/35/47....

I've recently been asked if I'm having more kids. By a colleague. A health care professional. She thought I was late 30s.

I also got IDd the other week.

I'm 50 next month.

I'm my mid 30s I was mistaken twice for my husband's daughter. He's 9y older than me.

I would be surprised if anyone heard someone give their date of birth and decide that they hadn’t heard correctly and needed to knock a decade off. It’s far more likely she misheard what you said and thought you said ‘93 rather than ‘83.

I think it’s probably more likely that she misheard the year than was thinking about how old you looked. When people tell me their date of birth, I don’t work out their age from it when it’s just an admin thing. That’s not to say you don’t look younger than your age. Does it matter anyway?

I think some people look a bit younger than they are but not usually 10 years younger.

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I’m sure you look fantastic op. But honestly In the history of people taking dobs to enter in a system, none have ever said. Oh I think she can’t be that old, I will knock ten years off. Then act confused when I can’t find her.

it doesn’t mean you don’t look much younger than your age. Simply no one ever makes their job harder by doing that.