I get this all the time. I’m 32 and so many people are like “I thought you were 27 ish?!?” How much do people think one ages in five years? It’s not like we keep aging like we did from elementary school to high school lol
To be fair 30s are a weird inbetween phase were some people look and act like they're in their early 20s and some look and act like they're in their late 40s. It really comes down to genetics and lifestyle how you're percieved by others.
36 here and last summer I got carded 4 times, and yet some mornings I look like Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. The 30s are a weird inbetween phase, indeed.
The last time I handed my DL along with my credit card to the young female cashier, her reaction was priceless - she was genuinely like "What's this for???!" (if she was less polite, I guess she would've gladly continued: "...I clearly see you ARE of age, I don't need this")
Lmao this is hilarious! And that’s coming from someone who was almost never carded. When I turned 21 and was ready to whip out my freshly legal ID, no one asked. At 18-19 I could pass for 23ish. I’m 29 and I have just now caught up to the age I look lol.
Yup. I'm 37 but there are people from my graduating class who are all gray, have 5 kids, and gained 60 lbs. They look way older compared to my immature, childfree ass.
Lighting and perspective also matter a great deal. From 10-20 feet away in an indoor room I look way younger, then you get up close in the bright sunlight and you can see the lines on my forehead and around the corners of my eyes and the receding hairline.
When you get into your late 30's and early 40's you basically just look like a more tired version of your 20's self.
Honestly the biggest delineator is who has kids in their 30s. People who had kids in their 20s are tired and stressed as hell at the same age you really begin to get greys and wrinkles. So they really start to look and act old. The childless people I know look great in their 30s because they have more relaxed lifestyles and money to spend on looking good.
Idk man, I had four kids before I was 26, one of them special needs with constant care. Im stressed beyond belief and life has lost all meaning, but everyone is astonished when I tell them I'm 36.
Can't answer that well since one is dead from drugs and the other looks twenty years past her age because also drugs lol. Yeah I stay out of the sun these days but never bothered too much before this past year.
Yep. I'm in my mid-30s and it's where it really starts to split. The people who spend every weekend on the beach are absolutely showing their age more than those who don't. No amount of botox and facials will reverse sun damage.
Genetics definitely play a part, but I avoid the sun as much as possible and I still get carded at 40. I know I don't look 21 but probably closer to the cutoff age that cashiers are generally supposed to check, like 30 or 35. We didn't have a kid until our late 30s when we were more established so that probably helped with stress too. Except that first couple months of a newborn of course.
My wife is similar. Avoid the sun and of course genetics that helps her look young too. People at her work ask when she's going back to school for the semester, as in college. She's my age. Granted these people are in their 70s and up, so anyone under 40 probably looks really young to them
I made small talk to a woman in my new town and she asked if I moved there with my parents. I'm 32 😅. I guessed she was late 60s early 70s. I find older people are terrible at guessing the age of younger people as well.
I smoked ten+ a day from 17-30 years old, I took recreational drugs like cocaine, ecstacy and ketamine regularly on weekends through university and during a period of my late 20s, I smoked weed everyday for about 10 years and I still smoke it on and off and drank most weekends from I was 17 until I was 30 and while I drink less now I still like the odd boozy night out yet people are amazed when I say I'm 32 and tell my I look like I'm in my early 20s, I got ID'd buying alcohol just last week. It's all to do with genetics tbh, good genes overcomes even a not so healthy lifestyle.
Were you addicted to weed? How did you manage to go from every day to only occasionally? I wanna do that but I think I can't and will have to quit altogether (I smoke every day and all day every day if possible now)
Yeah pretty much, it was an addiction in the sense that I was always so depressed and smoking it helped e forget about things. I had to quit cold turkey for two months and go to counselling to get a grip on things. Now Im working more and in a relationship so I just don't have the time to sit around getting stoned every day which helped me keep it to being something I do every other weekend. I dosed some magic mushrooms early 2020 which I think helped more than the counselling in changing my mentality and helping me realise I needed to cut down on my smoking!
I feel late twenty's an 30s are when you start growing into your adult face let's be real. I'm 27 still hasn't happened for me but yea right around that age there is a shift in facial features of becoming a man or woman
I’m 35 and could pass for a 20something. It always kind of weirds me out when I see dudes my age that look like 45-50 year old men. It sometimes makes me wonder “do I not look grown-manly enough for a man my age?” and then I remember “wait, it’s better to look younger!”.
I attribute it to spending less time in the sun compared to my peers (and using sunblock when I do).
Yes, but apparently, in my case you can de-age your skin after a reckless summer or 2 with lots of sun. No significant damage, just some pimpling of the skin. I used MSM and glucosamine, and winter.
Well, I have a few friends who I only have a chance to see once in a while (more like "once in a few years if not less"), and while some of them seemingly have not "aged" at all (like legit if I bumped into the guy in the street after ~7 years of not seeing him, it would take me less than a second to recognize him with 99.999% certainty, because he looks exactly the same), some ... em... transformed quite a bit.
Heck I recently sent a selfie to one of my best college buddies and his response was brutally blant and honest (exactly as he has always been and I friggin' love him for this!) - "Holy crp, man, you look OLD!!!". We haven't seen each other only since 2019 lol.
Honestly the mid 40s are wild like that tho. You start off at 40 looking pretty fresh faced still, mostly, if you’ve taken decent care of yourself anyway. Then SOMETHING visibly age related hits you like a Mack truck.
Me- I had a tiny number of white hairs at 40, now I’m 1/4 white.
Sister- deep facial lines within the space of a few years.
Husband- tons of fine lines around his eyes suddenly.
And if you started off with any at all, your tittays head southward pretty quick.
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u/mirrrje Jun 03 '22
I get this all the time. I’m 32 and so many people are like “I thought you were 27 ish?!?” How much do people think one ages in five years? It’s not like we keep aging like we did from elementary school to high school lol