#looking young

I lost my ID

a few weeks ago.

I tore both my home

and my mom's car apart.

I accepted defeat

and planned on getting a new one.

While buying energy drinks

at the gas station-

I decided to ask a question

and take a chance.

Hi, I lost my ID. Would I be able to buy nicotine with a photo I have of it on my phone?

"you lost your ID?"

The cashier asked in reply.

Yeah, I looked everywhere-

I started, while he pulled a

plastic rectangle out of the register drawer.

"is this you?"

I stared at it in disbelief.

Oh my god, yes it is!

I said with a laugh.

Can I get some nicotine?

"I thought you looked familiar!"

We shared a laugh

as he scanned my ID.

He asked me if I get ID'd often.

I told him yes,

it's rare that I don't.

"I thought so, you look so young!"

I laughed and thanked him.

That's very kind.

It is, and I hear it a lot

but I must be honest:

I think I definitely look thirty.

I wear it well.

I can't wait to be a silver fox at fifty.

I have plans to.

Gonna let the grey grow out

and wear it with pride.

Every year I get to is a badge of honor.

It's just another year

that I made it.

Crazy that my license was at the gas station

this whole time.

It's like my home away from home.

Written by AprilFool 🐸

Shin looks a lot younger then his age or well you look quite different between said ages. He looks around 17yrs old, while being 21.

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Oliver, why so cute and adorable? How you look so young? How?

I have rheumatoid arthritis and because of that I have this kind of eternal baby face/moon face usually associated with juvenile arthritis. Plus, I am very short.

I am also 29 years old and don’t show it. People are always eager to remind me when I tell them my age. They assume I am in my early 20s or even a teenager.

Now, someone might think that I am complaining about something nonsense because who in their right mind would complain about looking younger? Our society has internalised that being young or looking young is something good and positive, whereas looking old or - God forbid! - looking older than your actual age is horrible and should be avoided. I don’t have to say how that’s wrong but we’ll leave it to another post.

Tell me what you want but I hate it when people point out to me that I look younger than my age. Not because I think that being a teen or in early 20s is bad or anything, but because my younger appearance is related to my illness and not to genetics or the way nature shaped me. And I am always reminded of that and how people perceive me because of that.

Also, there’s always a difference between how people treat a grown up and a teen/very young person. I always fear that people won’t take me serious, that they will condescend me, think that I am naive and inexperienced because they think “I’m too young”. Not that it is correct to do that even to actual teens and young people, but it’s what some people do. Heck, I also worry that they’d ask me for my ID when I buy alcohol.

Make-up serves me to try to look a bit older.

Now, I know I still belong to the young side, but I am also a full grown adult (I surpassed the 25 threshold, the age when your brain finishes developing), I am a mature and responsible person who had some life experience and is not totally clueless.

So what I wanted to express is: can we please stop making comments about people’s looks? I don’t care if you think that looking young is a compliment. For some it might be, but still, don’t do that because you never know someone else’s story. I don’t care about looking young, I don’t smile when you tell me so.

There are plenty of stuff you can compliment me on. For example, I think I have a dope sense of style.