| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
OddFinn
Velociraptor
Joined: Jun 28, 2009
Posts: 481
Location: Finland
|
 Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:05 am Post subject: Aspies looking younger than they are |
 |
|
Another topic was discussing "aspie stare" where the eyes were not "smiling." I just thought that this might have something to do with the younger appearance.
Someone who was trying to guess my age was confused because I don't have wrinkles around my eyes but my hair and beard are turning grey (not as much yet as my avatar's).
I'm 42, so I shoud have those wrinkles, but don't. |
|
| Back to top |
|
zekriad
Butterfly
Joined: May 20, 2009
Age: 26
Posts: 10
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:11 am Post subject: |
|
|
It's possible... People tend to think I'm still in high school... Even with my lazy shaving habits.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
NowhereWoman
Blue Jay
Joined: Jul 02, 2009
Posts: 87
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: |
|
|
I really don't know. I have been told many times that I look very young for my age...still get carded, the whole nine. I have no wrinkles at all and no gray hair. I will be 42 next month.
BUT my sister, who is 21 months older than I am, also looks very, very young for her age and she certainly is not on the spectrum! She is so far off the spectrum, I don't even think she can see the spectrum from her house.  She'd need binoculars. So...I really don't know. I suppose it's possible but then again, for some people, maybe it's just genetics. |
|
| Back to top |
|
jmr
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Jun 26, 2009
Age: 30
Posts: 38
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:41 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Yes, I can relate; people have been telling me I look young for my age for a while, and my facial hair doesn't grow in as thickly as it does for most guys. I also have pretty sparse body hair on most of me, don't know if that's related. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Absquatulate
Butterfly
Joined: Jul 02, 2009
Posts: 15
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:49 am Post subject: |
|
|
| People typically think that I'm 15 or 16. I'm nearly 20. It's dreadfully annoying. |
|
| Back to top |
|
nara44
Deinonychus
Joined: May 17, 2008
Age: 55
Posts: 367
Location: Israel
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:14 am Post subject: Re: Aspies looking younger than they are |
|
|
| OddFinn wrote: | Another topic was discussing "aspie stare" where the eyes were not "smiling." I just thought that this might have something to do with the younger appearance.
Someone who was trying to guess my age was confused because I don't have wrinkles around my eyes but my hair and beard are turning grey (not as much yet as my avatar's).
I'm 42, so I shoud have those wrinkles, but don't. |
I'm 55
almost wrinkle free and doesn't have grey hair yet despite me having a very hard life in harsh environments as a soldier in a desert and spending many years as an homeless person living with no shelter under the harsh conditions of Israeli summers
most ppl think i'm 20 years younger than my age
looks like many AS shares the same experience and i think it's part of our genetic "defects" in the area that control timing as this could explain also many of our so called traits
ie
sleeplessness
different sense of space
problem syncing with the average folks
etc... |
|
| Back to top |
|
Crocodile
Velociraptor
Joined: Jul 28, 2008
Age: 18
Posts: 423
Location: The Netherlands
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:22 am Post subject: |
|
|
| zekriad wrote: | | It's possible... People tend to think I'm still in high school... Even with my lazy shaving habits. |
...Well...on that photo you indeed look quite young... 
_________________
Christians believe in The Holy Bible, Muslims believe in The Qur'aan and I believe in Mother Goose's Tale.
I GRADUATED WITH THE HIGHEST GRADES OF MY YEAR!!!!!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Crocodile
Velociraptor
Joined: Jul 28, 2008
Age: 18
Posts: 423
Location: The Netherlands
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:27 am Post subject: |
|
|
I dont't particularly think I look very young compared to my actual age, but I do feel like I'm more a child than some people of my age. I'm more into books and such, but I don't really mind my looks (I look good enough without having to stand in the bathroom for hours, some people who do too do it anyway) and neither do I really care for the opposite sex. I'm less into clothing and fashion etc than my peer group, which sometimes makes me feel like a child that doesn't care yet but some day will.
_________________
Christians believe in The Holy Bible, Muslims believe in The Qur'aan and I believe in Mother Goose's Tale.
I GRADUATED WITH THE HIGHEST GRADES OF MY YEAR!!!!!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
OddFinn
Velociraptor
Joined: Jun 28, 2009
Posts: 481
Location: Finland
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:29 am Post subject: Re: Aspies looking younger than they are |
|
|
| nara44 wrote: |
almost wrinkle free and doesn't have grey hair yet |
I think my grey hair has nothing to do with aging yet. It is probably because I have Vitiligo. |
|
| Back to top |
|
SteveeVader
Velociraptor
Joined: Jun 13, 2009
Age: 22
Posts: 411
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:34 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I don't know I look young I guess compared to my colleagues and I bloody have a beard and still get ID'ed |
|
| Back to top |
|
SpongeBobRocksMao
The SpongeBob Freak! :D
Joined: Oct 19, 2008
Age: 16
Posts: 2596
Location: SpongeBob's Pineapple (England really!)
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:48 am Post subject: |
|
|
I'm actually the opposite, a lot of people have actually commented that I look older than people my age.
_________________
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBobRocksMao!
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
SpongeBobRocksMao! |
|
| Back to top |
|
Tory_canuck
Phoenix
Joined: Jun 09, 2009
Age: 24
Posts: 1197
Location: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:06 am Post subject: |
|
|
coworkers at work thought I was a 17 year old when in reality, I am 23
_________________
Honour over deciet, merit over luck, courage over popularity, duty over entitlement...dont let the cliques fool you for they have no honour...only superficial deceit.
ALBERTAN...and DAMN PROUD OF IT!!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Michjo
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 05, 2009
Age: 25
Posts: 1020
Location: Oxford, UK
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I think a lack of affect does lead to aspies looking younger than the average population. Of course it is only a generalisation, i'm sure there are other factors at play as well. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Vanilla_Slice
Sea Gull
Joined: Oct 04, 2008
Age: 51
Posts: 243
Location: Hungary
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I'm 51 and guesses at my age range from 35 to 42. No alcohol, no drugs and the fact that I've never smoked probably account for a lot of this.
Vanilla_Slice |
|
| Back to top |
|
Batz
Deinonychus
Joined: Feb 27, 2008
Age: 19
Posts: 320
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| People think I'm 13 or 14. I'm actually 18. Possibly because of my height and the fact that I have no beard and my moustache is peach-fuzz thin. Actually, I think everytime I go to post the guards think I'm 11 or 12, so when my dad and I go to PX and I forget my ID the guard just looks at my dad's and we be on our merry way. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
