Is it normal to look like either a mom or a 12 year old?

Ok, so I am a girl who is 5'3 and about 106 lbs. I've had people think I'm 12, 13, or 14. I'm 18 now. One time, though, a pregnant woman who used to work with me asked, "are you going to bring your kids to work with you?" I said, well, "I'm 16 and I don't have any kids." I thought it was so weird. I've had other people think I was older than my age, also. I am starting to get very confused. I look very young, but I think I act older, so that may be the reason.

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  • mtnw

    who knows why that woman thought you had kids. sometimes people with kids, that's all they think about, so maybe that's it.

    in the next few years, looking so young, might give you trouble when you go out, but when you are old, you will love it!

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  • nohatingplz

    I'm short too and was skinny as a teen. Back then everybody thought I was an adult in my twenties. Then when I was in my thirties everybody still thought I was in my twenties. Not sure how this works exactly, but I think ppl look for cues to a person's age and sometimes we just give off the wrong cues. Either that or we are surrounded by the biggest bunch of flatterers the world has ever seen.

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  • Diff people perceive peoples ages differently. I've gotten 18, 19,20,21,24, and 27!! Which are all very different ages. I'm 30

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  • PoeticDreamer

    I'm 18 and the other week I got told I looked 11, then I got told I look 16. But then the week after that I bought alcohol from a place that is normally really strict about ID with anyone who looks under 25 and they didn't ID me, and later that day someone maybe 2 years younger than me told me I looked really "adulty."

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  • I am thirty and today a fourteen yr old boy was hitting on me. He thought i was fifteen. At work i wear a lot of makeup and people think im 22. But wen im wearing no makeup and a baggy coat im fifteen. Depends on how u looked that day

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  • seersucker

    I'm also 5'3" and I weigh about 100 pounds and plenty of people have thought that I am well beyond my years especially when having a conversation with me. I don't quite understand this though because I'm incredibly petite and I don't believe I look even sixteen, which is my age, but according to most people I look like I'm 21 and that I attend college! It's very flattering but odd at the same time!

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  • amberinboston

    I'm in my late 30s and people sometimes think I'm 18-21 but I get 25 most of the time. Enjoy it.

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  • LesterTheMolester

    When I get a haircut I look like I'm six or something... literally.

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  • xcmm92

    im 17 and i look younger- like 13-15! but once this guy asked me in what year of college i was when i was still in high school in my junior year O.o- and yeah, people say its a good thing that u look younger but i hate it, it's not that i want to look older, i just want to look my age.

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