How old do you look?

Do you look your age?

I'm 23 and I look about...17. Last semester I was working in a 5th grade classroom. The first day I was there, a student asked me if I was the 'new 5th grader.'

This year I had 1st graders. Thankfully, none of them asked if I was the 'new 1st grader.' They did come up with some interesting guesses on my age though...from 12 to 48.


My friend also looks very young for her age. She doesn't smoke but she was going to buy cigarettes to see if she was going to be carded. They asked for her ID, they looked at her, then at the card, then looked back at her and asked her when her birthday was. She told them her birthday and stated that she was 24.

They sold her the cigarettes.



So, do you look your age? Younger? Older?

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I don't think there's a standard look for any certain age. These days, no one seems to look their age-everyone looks younger, save for a very few exceptions.

it was only a few years ago that I was sent on a commercial audition to play the part of a pregnant woman!

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Updated On: 4/13/08 at 10:08 PM

I'm 23. I think I look... 23-ish. Maybe younger.

Last week, after finding out my age a woman said she was "shocked", that I look "like a woman", and that she thought I was "at least 26... at LEAST".

I was actually kind of offended. I guess I've gotten to the point where I'd rather look younger than older. I wondered when this day would come.

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Updated On: 4/13/08 at 10:16 PM

I am 20 and a junior in college, and some people think I am 12 (not joking), though people usually guess 16 (probably to be polite)

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Jacob, let's see a pic.

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i'm 22.... i get carded.

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Teenagers use cough medicine to get high.

A few years ago, I was in Times Sq with some of my recent graduates, and one of those comedy club guys came up to us and asked if we wanted to go to his comedy club.

I asked him if there was an age minimum since the kids were under 21. He was like "you have to be at least 16" I said to him "do you need an ID to get in?" and He said "Trust me, NO ONE will think that YOU are under 16."

I had a shocked look on my face and I said "Well gee I hope no one thinks I'm under 16, I'm a high school teacher for goodness sake. I was asking because these guys are under 21." And he was like "ohh.....sorry...." And he turned and walked away without offering us the passes.

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cough syrup contains DXM, which acts as a hallucinogen at high enough levels and that teenagers use it as a legal way to get high.


It's sad by true
Cough Medicine Abuse By Kids

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I look like Willie Nelson's great-grandfather.

Thanks SNAFU and Sweet Q. I didn't know that. And yes, Sweet Q, I didn't buy the medicine because I didn't feel like showing my ID.I just remembered-besides s howing ID, she had this notebook in which I was going to have to fill out a bunch of info-like sign my name, address, phone, etc. I definitely wasn't about to do any of that.

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Updated On: 4/13/08 at 11:08 PM

I am 47, and I used to always be told I looked younger, but over the last couple of years I gotten a lot more grey hair, so I think I look pretty much my age. Which is just fine.

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Usually when people guess, it's something like 15 or 16...and I'm 19. Yep, I always end up playing the young boy roles...

I am 18 and they still never charge me for adult-priced tickets at the movies.