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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know that there aren't women who look decades younger than their age, but there are women who truly do look younger. I went to see a new doctor who told me not to worry about testing for something because it's not really necessary until later. She was shocked when I told her how old I was. She looked at my forms again to double check. (Why, I don't know?) Then advised me to get the test. Some women really do look younger. (No, I don't look like a twenty year old, but I'm routinely mistaken for someone ten years younger. TBH, it has it's bad points.)[/quote]

Me too.

I have been in my position for 19 years and when I had a work meeting with several clients and their attorney- how long I had been at it came up.  One of the men said ' yea- you started when you were 15'. I laughed and said I was in my mid-40s and everyone there was truly shocked.  The one woman in their group was my age and she pulled me aside in the way out to express how good/young I look.

This was a multiple PhD, science/law crowd.

I do get that shocked thing a lot, but people think my 72-year old dad is no more than 60 and I take after him.[/quote]

I'm the pp you're quoting, and yes, this is why it's not that great. I'll never forget this meeting I had with someone who said "look, I've been doing this for twenty years...." When I said, I have too, he called me a liar! Other things happen too, like younger people not respecting you, or getting hit on by men much younger than you are (I know some people think this is a plus, but I'm embarrassed by it), or try meeting a guy your age who only wanted to date you because he thought you were younger! Thankfully, I'm married now, so that's not a problem. I don't want to look like a 20 year old, nor am I complaining about looking younger than my age. Yes, it's nice, but it's nothing I'd ever brag about. It just is what it is. And I'd never voluntarily tell anyone my age. It's only come out when there was an issue, like the examples I gave.[/quote]

Yep.  The only reason I threw it out there is because I am in a male-dominated science field and in addition to young-looking I am attractive (particualrly when you compare the average woman that goes into this field).  The vibe was totally like 'we have to go through this young bimbo hired for her looks' to get what we want. Once I threw down my counter-response and casually slipped in my years of experience the atmosphere immediately changed. Their tone changed.  Their attention changed, etc.  It is much easier now that I am visibly older--but that field in my 20s-early 30s was rough to be taked seriously and I refused to wear Birkenstocks or a fanny pack.  I was aksi told by another woman 'pretty girls don't usually go into science'.  Thank god for STEM programs these days!

I also get other moms at school that don't know me well saying something abou their age or something "you wouldn't know because you weren't born yet'...and then whe I'm like 'huh?' and they ask my age or year I graduated we find out we are actually the same age or just a year or so apart.[/quote]

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