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

[Mairzydotes]

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.

She probably just misheard and never even looked at you.

However I have genuinely met one woman who looked 10 years younger than her age. Even when you knew her age you wouldn't be able to see it (she was Asian though, I think on white skin you can always see ageing).

Hahahahahaha, you must have very low self esteem to post this on mumsnet...

I get taken for ten years younger but only if I'm dressed up and have a full face of make up . I dye my hair too but I know sans make up , greasy hair and in joggers and t shirt I look my age

I don't know why people on Mumsnet think it's impossible to look a lot younger than you are. People can look a lot older, so why not younger? Is it jealousy?

FWIW, I'm in my 40s and I do look very young. I'm 5ft, but my face looks young too. I have no greys, no wrinkles and am often mistaken for early to mid 20s. I am always asked for ID, without fail, even when with my husband and teenagers.

Last year, I was treated horribly by an educational behaviourist working at the school I was teaching in. When she found out how old I was, she was very apologetic and said she thought I was an NQT straight out of uni. Not that it should have been an excuse for her behaviour, but it happens to me in every job. People think I was a teen mother (I was 26!).

I'm now a lecturer. People assume I'm a student. It's hilarious a lot of the time, but can be extremely frustrating if I am not taken seriously as a grown adult.

And no, I won't be posting pictures of my face on Mumsnet. The fact that I've had to live with this since I was a child is more than enough for me. I don't need to be believed by Internet randoms.

How ironic and unfortunate. 😂

You look great for an 118 year old.

You are beautiful! I think it's very hard to tell how old you are, I would comfortably say you could be anything from late twenties to mid 40s, but fabulous regardless of what age you are.

@WalkingonWheels this has made me think, the only person I know who genuinely looks much younger than they actually are, I'm talking 20 years younger. She is around 5 foot tall, has a very useful dress, sense, around very pretty face, and natural blonde hair

I definitely think size does come into it a bit!

I very much doubt that she put enough thought into it to work out how old that would make you

45 almost.

But yes I think its getting harder to tell nowadays. I would say I am 40s as I dye my greys and am now perimenopausal too to add to it

Thing is....they never do!
Many threads with such claims. No evidence.

No. But then again you do get people who are delusional.
The funniest on here was a woman in her 50s who claimed everyone thought she was in her 20s. There followed other ludicrous claims.

@KatyaKabanova Was it Amanda Holden?

😂

I'd say you look between 37-42? What do you get mistaken for?

I was going to say mid 30s to mid 40s
Very attractive, but clearly not a 20 something. No shame in that.

People usually think I'm younger than I am. I don't know about ten years younger but it's common for me to get told that.

I had my 40th not too long ago and I was getting a bit down about it. I had several of my friends tell me well you don't look 40!

I certainly feel 40 though!!

Bless you op, she was looking under 1993 instead of 1983, she didn’t know it care which was the real one.
Why would she have guessed a year exactly ten years out? Or guessed at all…

They’re your friends… 😬

@Lostmum1906 you look stunning for starters and not 45 IMO. It is funny how aging goes in fits and starts, you don't age evenly, it suddenly lunges up (like when you get jowls which I did around 51/52, there's no disguising that). And surely most people look roughly their age, but might look 5 years younger (like you) as some look much older. The range of guesses is probably mid-thirties to mid-fifties for someone who is 45 depending on life, lifestyle, genetics, smoking/drinking and so on.

I have a colleague who is late-fifties but looks in her 60's, I think it is the combo of white hair (not grey, white and short, not styled out) and dressing older, it's not her actual face that it is older, it's all the other clues we have about someone's age.

There's a whole Agatha Christie book about this.. SPOILER ALERT.... Poirot advises there's no way that the woman masquerading as an 18 yo would ever be mistaken by him as such, 'just look at her knees and elbows, you can never mistake the knees of an adult for a teenager' to paraphrase!

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realised how seldom they do.”

She was not sitting there doing the maths. Sorry.

Absolutely not!

Also, on mumsnet there are lots of people who claim they or their mum doesn't have wrinkles. If they are white, this is probably a lie, but even if they are- there are so many signs of ageing over the whole body, hands, neck, lack of skin elasticity, hair going coarser, and that's without starting on how you dress/carry yourself. The lack of wrinkles isn't convincing anyone a 53 year old is 23 under any circumstances! But Botox, good genes, creams and potions, good lifestyle might take you down by a few years, not more.