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	elemcee 2007-02-18 02:12 pm UTC (link)
	Well, it's certainly possible to be 20 and often be mistaken for a 13-year-old, I know that much. scowl (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2007-02-18 03:08 pm UTC (link)
	Or be 15 and mistaken both for your brother's mum and a 13 year old in a span of less than an hour. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catslash 2007-02-18 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	My poor sister would get that when she was thirteen and our brother was a baby. She got so many dirty looks that after a while she refused to hold him in public. In on topic news, when I was seventeen I had a coworker who thought I was twenty-nine. He wasn't very bright, but still, what? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	onaga 2007-02-18 04:07 pm UTC (link)
	Join the club. 22, mistaken for a high schooler (Reply to this)(Parent)

	oh_envy 2007-02-18 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yes. Even possible to be 28 and mistaken for a fifteen year old. Makes my job much more fun, though! (But going out clubbing is hell. Hell with non-alcoholic drinks in it!) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rachel_pi 2007-02-18 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	Indeed it is. It's even more fun when your parents realize that they can just buy children's tickets for everything. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	fionnabhair 2007-02-19 01:46 am UTC (link)
	23 and mistaken for a) My thirty year old brother's girlfriend, and b) My seventeen year old sister's younger sister. And all at the same event. Still not sure how I managed that one. (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2007-02-19 05:21 am UTC (link)

In junior year of high school, I was mistaken for one of the elementary school/junior high students that were touring one day (went to a boarding school) and got the crap scared out of me when one of their teachers grabbed my backpack handle from behind, yanked me into their line, and yelled, "WHERE do you think you're going?!?" In senior year, another group of kids selling school M&Ms hit on me.

Now, at 24: went into a building where an elementary school art class was starting up for the day. A teacher saw me from a distance and looked at me expectantly while giving me that one "kid" smile -- the one that, well, teachers give to little kids on the first day of class. (She stopped and skedaddled off when I came closer.) And waitresses in their late teens/early 20s have told me that my sketches are "VE-ry gooood! Wow!" The gap has only widened...

At least it's more funny than anything (except when the condescension reaches levels of jerkiness, especially from someone younger).

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	coffeebun 2007-02-19 11:39 am UTC (link)
	Heh. Other people have guessed my age correctly a grand total of twice. Apparently I'm a fifteen-year-old even when I mention repeatedly that I've already graduated from university. It's weird. They'd rather believe I'm sekritly a genius than my real age. (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2007-02-19 04:10 pm UTC (link)

I'm 25. On one hand I've been mistaken for my 17 year old sister's twin, asked when I was graduating from high school, and been offered the children's menu. Sadly, no crayons. On the other hand, I've had numerous people think I was the same sister's mother, leading to general stupidity and confusion.

I am led to the conclusion people suck at guessing the ages of strangers.

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queencallipygos
2007-02-20 10:55 pm UTC (link)

I'm 37, and have been mistaken for someone in her 20's. ...Not a bad thing.

But my mother and I sounded very much alike on the phone when I was a teenager, and I got mistaken for her all the time when I answered the phone. One time even my father couldn't tell us apart. I answered the phone and he sounded very affectionate and called me by his pet name for my mother, and I very quickly interrupted and was all no Dad it's me PLEASE DON'T LET ME HEAR HOW YOU FLIRT ANY MORE BECAUSE IT WOULD BREAK MY BRAIN....

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kittenmommy
2007-02-21 05:49 am UTC (link)

I'm 37, and have been mistaken for someone in her 20's. ...Not a bad thing.

I'm 37 and I still get carded. I can't tell you how many times people have thought I'm Kittendaddy's daughter instead of his wife.

And there's no way I would've been mature enough to handle a relationship with a twenty-something-year-old when I was thirteen. Heck, I couldn't even have handled a relationship with another thirteen-year-old at that point in my life. Blech.

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	(Anonymous) 2007-02-21 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	Hee. People think I'm 13/14 when they first see me, then they talk to me and expect me to be 23. I'm 18. ~Alya1989262 @ LJ (Reply to this)(Parent)

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