Is it normal to be 21 and feel/ look 15?

lol i posted a thread on here a while ago about peter pan syndrome that ive got, basically i was explaining that im a 21 year old male that looks about 18, feels about 18 and hangs around with mainly 18 year olds lol i love it, age is just a number, enjoy your youth and your youthful looks. its nice hustling people, i love the surprised look on theyre faces lol peeeeeace :)

Maybe you really are 15 and yuor parents lied to you about your age.

Right now I'm 20 and I look 25 but when I was 18 I looked 13

People look how they do cause that's the way they are, I know people who don't want to look as old as they do, but some girls try to hard, by that I mean they wear makeup and want guys to look at them, when girls at school try to wear makeup and dress slutty I use to ignore them and pretend as if they don't exist because they think they're pretty, when a girl like that was around I use to talk to a quiet shy girl, so them slutty girls would get jealous. But I know what you mean by looking young i was like that the only difference I was a guy, so I grew facial hair and cut my hair short.

The idea we have of what an age "looks" like is kinda like a big average of everyone we've known at that age. If there's an average look, this precludes there is an average range outside that, and an even bigger range of variance outside of that. You probably fall well within normal. Tons of people look five, ten, twenty, even thirty or more years younger or older than their age to most people because that "average" is so burned into our heads about what some age or really some "anything" is "supposed" to look like / be like.

Probably SUCKS trying to get ito bars/liquor stores in your situation though,right?

One word that fits you. Shotacon

I'm 21 and people say I look 16. It only annoys me cause I still get id'd for everything. Even movies LOL

i meant to say smart shoes ^ lol

and its true what christine said, you can manipulate your looks by clothes, hair make up etc to either make you look older or younger, for example, last friday i left my house to go to the gym, i was on my bmx bike, dressed in loose pants, vans shirt and new era hat, clean shaven and my neighbour said hello, the next day i left the house to go to the club, i was dressed in a smart shirt with my hair done, black jeans and smart shirts, with a bit of a stubble, i hopped in my car and my neighbour said hello and hows your brother, i havnt got a brother, he thought i was 2 people lol just goes to show how you can manipulate peoples perceptions :)

Wouldn't bother me. I'm sure plenty of other people have similar concerns. Sorry you feel bad.

It is normal... just make sure you act your age.
I'm 30, and every time I go out to dinner and get an alcoholic beverage, the waiter looks at me funny and asks to see my driver's license.

As far as the dating, a lot of guys (like me) like girls who look younger than they are.

It is normal. I am also 21 and everyone thinks that I am about 17. If I wear dressier clothes it makes me look older though and then many people mistake me for being 25! You can do a lot to manipulate your look to seem older- try more expensive clothes or more makeup.

At my mothers wedding, one of the guests was watching his mouth around me because I looked fourteen. He made a huge scene when he found out that I was a college student already. My nickname when I was a senior in high school was Freshy and I'm constantly stopped by cops at night thinking that I'm breaking curfew. Even at my college people think that I'm an early graduate so the teachers sometimes expect more of me. It's very frustrating.

i'm 31 myself and people always think i'm way younger. i look like a teenager. some people are just born that way. hey, i think its a good thing.
my friend told her friend, someone who saw me once, my age and she was like " what? No Way!"

Try to find a youthful looking guy who is around your age. And like others said - you'll love that younger look as time passes by.

BTW - this might sound dumb - but is there really all that much difference physically between these ages that you can generalize much on - or are you being a bit self conscious? You wouldn't need ID, for example, if the difference between 21, 19 & 15 was always so obvious.

I'm 27 and people still think that I'm in high school. When I tell them that it's been 8 years since graduating they get shocked. I look at it as a positive thing.

girl, I had the same problem. Now i'm 32 and it's finally working to my advantage a little. Still in business situations, I think people don't give me the respect I want because I look like a college girl.
But your attitude and presence will tell your age as well as your appearance. Enjoy looking fresh and natural. Feel older. Feel good. Others will play off of how you feel about yourself.

I'm in the same boat, only I'm 28! I still get carded whenever I go near a bar, but I don't mind, since it makes me feel young again :) Enjoy it while you can!

It's annoying me too .. I'm 19 now and I look like I'm 15 .. But as "sandmansgirl" said, they say you'd feel better when you're old and people think ur in your 20s .. Then you'd fancy urself xD That's why I'm kind of patient about it.

I don't know if this is normal or not, but I've always looked about 15 years younger than I really am. As a matter of fact, I kept getting carded at bars until I was about 37!! I'm 43 now, and people think I'm in my late 20's or early 30's. So...feel happy about it!