I’m 29 but I get told I look 18-19. And the people who tell me this regularly see a lot of people on the daily, from police officers to nurses to salon workers. When I tell them my actual age they literally gasp or laugh at me. The older I get, the more pronounced their reaction is. Doctors were saying “you definitely have something wrong, I can tell just by looking at you” but then the hormonal results all came back normal and they just shrugged. Another weird thing is anti-loitering devices hurt my ears, and those aren’t supposed to affect people older than 20.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    Had the same problem, now I’ve got a touch of grey hair at my temples and it has helped immensely.

    I got carded for alchohol up into my late 30s.

    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      Same - growing a beard helped massively too.

      Once I started working, I used to grow a beard every winter - mainly because I got bored with shaving every day. I noticed that once I had my beard, I never got age-checked, when I shaved it off, I’d still be asked.

      Mind you, I’ve had a beard for eleven years now - who knows how haggard I look underneath nowadays!