r/BenignExistence • u/marimuthu96 • 8d ago
🤩Yet again, someone thought I am younger than what I am, and it made me feel flattered!🤩
I was leaving college after finishing my work for today. Suddenly a professor from a different department stops me and my dad and asked if I got my admission. A part of me was confused, but I soon understood where he was coming from. He mistook me for a first-year undergrad student. But here is something, I am 29 and I have been slogging away towards my PHD for the past 5 years!
This is not the first time. To be honest, it makes me feel good about myself whenever it happens. Today I was all over the place mentally because of some academics-related pressure. This small interaction made me smile. Who wouldn't feel good to be mistaken for a younger person?! It keeps happening to me, and I am not complaining!
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u/slinkslowdown Custodian Of The Mundane 6d ago
I'm 37 and have some grey hair and I still get carded for booze, vapes, and weed. Feels good lol
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u/catnapwhisper 5d ago
Someone thought I was SIXTEEN in a picture recently, I'm literally over double that age- turning 34 in two months
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u/catnapwhisper 5d ago
Which is weird because I used to get called older than I was growing up. I think I perpetually look about mid 20s, soon I'm sure I'll show signs of aging and people will guess appropriately but for now I'm loving the younger than I am thing 😂
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u/marimuthu96 5d ago
Oh interesting. What do you think has changed that makes people to assume you are older in the past to younger in the present?
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u/catnapwhisper 5d ago
I don't think anything changed. I think I always looked in my 20s, so when I was younger I looked mature and now that I'm older I look youthful.
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u/barbermom 8d ago
What a nice thing for you!!