An illustrative picture: Leighton Meester at 17 (left) and 40 (right).

  • knuk@piefed.ca
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    2 days ago

    I’m a weirdo who likes the smell of sunscreen so I use it all summer long when I’m going outside. I’m 31 but when I shave my beard off people think I’m barely 20.

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      2 days ago

      You LIKE the smell‽

      I’m closer to be 40, and I despise putting it on, but I still do every day it’s sunny.

      About your look: do you have kids? People think I’m 30, maybe because I don’t have any, so I’ve been able to sleep every night.

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        3 hours ago

        I have a funny experience with kids and people guessing my age. I had one set in my early 20s, and another set in my late 30s. People who knew me from my first kids thought I was the age I am, people who saw me with my second kids thought I was much younger than I am, and people who saw me with all of them thought I was older than I am because they thought I was the grandma. Except occasionally my oldest complained, she said people thought we were a lesbian couple with kids, that people thought she was a lot older than she was.

        Which taught me, people don’t really look at you much, they make assumptions based on your situation, and that colors how they see you.

          • architect@thelemmy.club
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            1 day ago

            People think I’m in my late 20s. I’m in my 40s. So add another no kids to the pile of proof that kids age you because I have none. I sleep everyday until I wake up, I protect my skin from the sun, I don’t drink or smoke.