Is it normal i have to wear makeup and can't go without it because...
Without makeup, I'm a horrible ugly monster with 500000 zits and 2000000 scars. I also have green scaly skin with huge blisters...I kid, I kid.
Actually, without makeup I don't look bad, I just look young..very young..so young, I could be your fetus young. I have a condition called Neverageopis and it's quite scary..sometimes. Basically, I go out somewhere without makeup and I'm taken less seriously, I'm flirted with by teenage boys, I'm IDed to death (I get IDed for lottery tickets, I can't enter Dave and Buster's after midnight unless I have my ID, I get IDed at clubs that are 18+, I get IDed to enter a casino, I need an ID for all alcohol, etc). They don't even look at it once, they look at it about 5 times before they finally give it back to me and allow me to purchase/go into wherever.
When I was in a taxi alone, a driver said, "wow you're so young to travel by yourself" and when I'm at work, customers will ask things like "what grade are you in?", "it's my daughter's sweet 16 and since you're probably about her age, what do you think about this idea?" and "you look just like one of my 9th grade students, is your name so and so (got this 5 times now)?" I even went to a store once where the girl was 17 and asked if I was in the grade below her as I looked familiar.
It's strange, kind of annoying but I guess useful for later in life but when I do wear makeup (90% of the time), I finally look at least 19. I still get asked for ID everywhere but people think I'm at least 19. Coworkers all assumed I was 19-20 when I first started there, some STILL think I'm younger than them when I'm actually the same age. They'll randomly make small talk to each other about the 90s and early 00s as they were kids during that time (so was I) and say how it's sad my generation didn't get to experience that. I laugh under my breath, always as they assume they're a lot older than me when I'm the same age as one of them and only a few years younger than the other.
My family tell me I only look two years younger than I am but my own boyfriend tells me how when he looks at me, he seriously thinks I look like I'm barely 18. I find this creepy. None of my friends ever saw me without makeup but they all say I look like I just turned 21.
When I was 19, I remember going to restaurants and they'd automatically put down a kid's menu for me..I kid you not. I would have to push it away or tell them. One time one of them thought I was joking with them. I said "I'm almost 20, I don't need this" and they told me "aww I'm sure you don't want to grow up that quickly". I was so pissed.
Sometimes when I don't wear makeup and go out to eat, the waitress calls me sweetie or cutie...I swear they're like 21 maximum and they think I'm a freaking 15 year old girl. Give me a break. I'm almost 27.
Is this normal, anyone else experience this?