Because of their looks, women in their mid-twenties are like minor celebrities. I can see how losing that sort of unearned attention could be a downer.

Anonymous wrote:Most women think they look young for their age.

Isn't it funny how often people "guess" that you are much younger, and seem "shocked" by your real age. They are being polite. If any woman asks me to guess her age, I always say something ridiculously low.

Sorry, I'm not trying to make you feel bad. I'm older than you. I just want you to be realistic. I know aging is hard, especially when younger people pick on you about it.

Eh, it's not that.

I come from a large family. My youngest sibling is 8 years younger than me.

Every single time someone volunteers to/ is asked to assign ages to the siblings, I am guessed to be the youngest. It's a running joke in my family.

My friends also tease me about it.

It's something I have come to accept, from life experience.

The fact is, plenty of women look much younger than their age. Again, it puzzles to me as to why there is such ire/ denial about that? Maybe people feel like I'm cheating the system, or it's just an issue of a woman acknowledging a trait of theirs that has been traditionally been seen as an asset? (Though I'm not sure being frozen at 15 for 17 years is necessarily the ideal age at which to stop aging) I'm not sure. But it always puzzles me the lengths to which people will go to deny that an anonymous person on DCUM looks much younger....

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm 27 but I usually get mistaken for being in high school and even middle school a couple of times.

I know what you're talking about. i was cute in my teens and early 20s and had the attention of guys my own age. But when I hit 22 it was like ALL these men started being interested.

IDK, maybe cause I am aging slower but that hasnt declined yet.

I actually find it somewhat annoying. Like the other day I was doing squats on the squat machine in (perfectly appropriate) gym shorts and looked across the gym to see two guys (not standing together) absolutely staring at the underside of my ass/thigh area.

It's gross and nasty, and I think most of the attention is prurient and borderline misogynistic.

Once you realize most men are worthless horndogs I guess it takes the shine off. I could not care less if I never got another look from a male stranger for the rest of my life.

I'm the OP.

I used to be like you, I always looked very young for my age and had big baby cheeks and was really short so for a long time, from 0- 23, I was looked at as a kid and was passed on by all men. When I turned 24, I developed curves and I started to look like a young girl, I guess. That and the bloom of youth meant I got a LOT of attention; older men, younger men, neighbors, coworkers, free coffee drinks special treatment etc.

It was amazing. And so sudden!

And then i reached 27 and 28 and all of that has dropped. I'm honestly kinda shocked.

Well I am a couple months away from 28 and still nothing has changed, so I think- for now at least, it doesn't seem like that will happen anytime soon.

I do have "baby cheeks" but my mom got approached to be in a survey for 20something when she was in her late 40s- maybe it's a genetic thing?

Honestly, after 17 years of looking 15 it's starting to get old. A couple months ago I was denied entrance to an R movie because I didn't have my id on me, so I really wouldn't mind if I aged a couple of years.

It also seems to attract a whole brand of creepers that think I'm in my late teens and still approach me. I have mostly dated younger men cause that's the group that approaches me the most, and not in a weird way. But it would be nice to be approached by guys my own age who DON'T actually think they're hitting on a 16 year old.

Ha you sound delusional. 16 yeah right. Get over yourself

I don't know why women who look younger always seem to spark such ire on DCUM? Plenty of women look much younger than their age. Look at Selena Gomez- she could easily pass for 15.

I can see how that would be annoying if you've aged very fast and aren't happy about it, but people have different realities. Not everyone who acknolwedges they look younger is "delusional"- but whatever you have to tell yourself...

Most women think they look young for their age.

Isn't it funny how often people "guess" that you are much younger, and seem "shocked" by your real age. They are being polite. If any woman asks me to guess her age, I always say something ridiculously low.

Sorry, I'm not trying to make you feel bad. I'm older than you. I just want you to be realistic. I know aging is hard, especially when younger people pick on you about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm 27 but I usually get mistaken for being in high school and even middle school a couple of times.

I know what you're talking about. i was cute in my teens and early 20s and had the attention of guys my own age. But when I hit 22 it was like ALL these men started being interested.

IDK, maybe cause I am aging slower but that hasnt declined yet.

I actually find it somewhat annoying. Like the other day I was doing squats on the squat machine in (perfectly appropriate) gym shorts and looked across the gym to see two guys (not standing together) absolutely staring at the underside of my ass/thigh area.

It's gross and nasty, and I think most of the attention is prurient and borderline misogynistic.

Once you realize most men are worthless horndogs I guess it takes the shine off. I could not care less if I never got another look from a male stranger for the rest of my life.

I'm the OP.

I used to be like you, I always looked very young for my age and had big baby cheeks and was really short so for a long time, from 0- 23, I was looked at as a kid and was passed on by all men. When I turned 24, I developed curves and I started to look like a young girl, I guess. That and the bloom of youth meant I got a LOT of attention; older men, younger men, neighbors, coworkers, free coffee drinks special treatment etc.

It was amazing. And so sudden!

And then i reached 27 and 28 and all of that has dropped. I'm honestly kinda shocked.

Well I am a couple months away from 28 and still nothing has changed, so I think- for now at least, it doesn't seem like that will happen anytime soon.

I do have "baby cheeks" but my mom got approached to be in a survey for 20something when she was in her late 40s- maybe it's a genetic thing?

Honestly, after 17 years of looking 15 it's starting to get old. A couple months ago I was denied entrance to an R movie because I didn't have my id on me, so I really wouldn't mind if I aged a couple of years.

It also seems to attract a whole brand of creepers that think I'm in my late teens and still approach me. I have mostly dated younger men cause that's the group that approaches me the most, and not in a weird way. But it would be nice to be approached by guys my own age who DON'T actually think they're hitting on a 16 year old.

Ha you sound delusional. 16 yeah right. Get over yourself

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm 27 but I usually get mistaken for being in high school and even middle school a couple of times.

I know what you're talking about. i was cute in my teens and early 20s and had the attention of guys my own age. But when I hit 22 it was like ALL these men started being interested.

IDK, maybe cause I am aging slower but that hasnt declined yet.

I actually find it somewhat annoying. Like the other day I was doing squats on the squat machine in (perfectly appropriate) gym shorts and looked across the gym to see two guys (not standing together) absolutely staring at the underside of my ass/thigh area.

It's gross and nasty, and I think most of the attention is prurient and borderline misogynistic.

Once you realize most men are worthless horndogs I guess it takes the shine off. I could not care less if I never got another look from a male stranger for the rest of my life.

I'm the OP.

I used to be like you, I always looked very young for my age and had big baby cheeks and was really short so for a long time, from 0- 23, I was looked at as a kid and was passed on by all men. When I turned 24, I developed curves and I started to look like a young girl, I guess. That and the bloom of youth meant I got a LOT of attention; older men, younger men, neighbors, coworkers, free coffee drinks special treatment etc.

It was amazing. And so sudden!

And then i reached 27 and 28 and all of that has dropped. I'm honestly kinda shocked.

Well I am a couple months away from 28 and still nothing has changed, so I think- for now at least, it doesn't seem like that will happen anytime soon.

I do have "baby cheeks" but my mom got approached to be in a survey for 20something when she was in her late 40s- maybe it's a genetic thing?

Honestly, after 17 years of looking 15 it's starting to get old. A couple months ago I was denied entrance to an R movie because I didn't have my id on me, so I really wouldn't mind if I aged a couple of years.

It also seems to attract a whole brand of creepers that think I'm in my late teens and still approach me. I have mostly dated younger men cause that's the group that approaches me the most, and not in a weird way. But it would be nice to be approached by guys my own age who DON'T actually think they're hitting on a 16 year old.

I feel like 35 + is invisible territory...

Maybe you would get more of the attention you crave if you weren't so shallow. I feel sad for you, OP.

Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm 27 but I usually get mistaken for being in high school and even middle school a couple of times.

I know what you're talking about. i was cute in my teens and early 20s and had the attention of guys my own age. But when I hit 22 it was like ALL these men started being interested.

IDK, maybe cause I am aging slower but that hasnt declined yet.

I actually find it somewhat annoying. Like the other day I was doing squats on the squat machine in (perfectly appropriate) gym shorts and looked across the gym to see two guys (not standing together) absolutely staring at the underside of my ass/thigh area.

It's gross and nasty, and I think most of the attention is prurient and borderline misogynistic.

Once you realize most men are worthless horndogs I guess it takes the shine off. I could not care less if I never got another look from a male stranger for the rest of my life.

I'm the OP.

I used to be like you, I always looked very young for my age and had big baby cheeks and was really short so for a long time, from 0- 23, I was looked at as a kid and was passed on by all men. When I turned 24, I developed curves and I started to look like a young girl, I guess. That and the bloom of youth meant I got a LOT of attention; older men, younger men, neighbors, coworkers, free coffee drinks special treatment etc.

It was amazing. And so sudden!

And then i reached 27 and 28 and all of that has dropped. I'm honestly kinda shocked.

Well, I'm 27 but I usually get mistaken for being in high school and even middle school a couple of times.

I know what you're talking about. i was cute in my teens and early 20s and had the attention of guys my own age. But when I hit 22 it was like ALL these men started being interested.

IDK, maybe cause I am aging slower but that hasnt declined yet.

I actually find it somewhat annoying. Like the other day I was doing squats on the squat machine in (perfectly appropriate) gym shorts and looked across the gym to see two guys (not standing together) absolutely staring at the underside of my ass/thigh area.

It's gross and nasty, and I think most of the attention is prurient and borderline misogynistic.

Once you realize most men are worthless horndogs I guess it takes the shine off. I could not care less if I never got another look from a male stranger for the rest of my life.

Anonymous wrote:she would say you grow out of the need for external validation, or at least the way you needed it in your 20s.

they *say* that...

Aging is relative.

You might be "old" to college-aged people, but you're still young to people who are older than you.

That's why I wouldn't worry too much about these "at what age are men/women past their expiration date." What's "too old" to someone is perfectly fine to someone else.

Who needs personality when you have smooth wrinkle free skin and a hot fit body - that is all that matter right?

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Anonymous wrote:If you have fair skin yes that's it for you. If you have olive or darker you will last through your late 50s

Yeah, this is the one downside of white privilege - sorry don't feel sorry for any of you 28+ yo milky white hags out there.

Thankfully, PP will always have her sparkling personality to fall back on.

Your perception is seriously skewed, OP. It will be hard to find anyone who agrees with you. You need a serious boost in self confidence.