Potentially too much information - about teeth and being my "age"
You can blame this on the fact that last October my dentist told me my wisdom teeth had started to come through. That and a couple of other You can blame this on the fact that last October my dentist told me my wisdom teeth had started to come through. That and a couple of other incidental events that have got me thinking...
( Going under a cut just in case people don't want to read, although I don't think there's really anything too bad here )
( Going under a cut just in case people don't want to read, although I don't think there's really anything too bad here )
I've always looked younger too, though I'm average height for a woman. When I was at uni, people though I was about 13 or 14 (and I did use to travel for child's fare on buses), and sometimes when I didn't have makeup on, they thought I was a boy (I have short hair). I didn't mind about the boy bit; I just laughed, but it annoyed me when people just wouldn't believe me about being an adult.
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Hm, the height thing might have something to do with it. I consider myself short, although according to wiki I'm exactly average height. My idea could be slightly skewed though because I was so much shorter than many of my high school peers in year 7. It actually suprised some of the other girls how much I had grown when they had to consider it in year 11.
I would love to still get child fairs, but I'm too nervous that I'd be caught out by an inspector. The threat of a $200 fine is enough to keep me compliant. Did you get a lot of people saying "you'll be grateful when you're older" when you were explaining to them why it was frustrating/annoying to have your age underestimated? And are you grateful?
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I'm exactly average height for NZ and slightly over for Australia according to that--and I still have to shorten all the trousers and jeans I buy. Everything seems to be made for unusually tall women with long legs. I should make the few lengthen from a generous turn-up rather than almost everyone shorten.
I only minded if they thought I was lying about my age, and I am grateful now that I look younger. :-)
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My "little" sister always has to buy the talls because the length of averages are still too short for her. I actually fit the averages, because most of my height is in my legs. My husband who is the same height as me, but has his height more evenly distributed, needs to have 10cms+ taken up on every pair of his jeans.
I've never really had anyone tell me I was lying. Some people find it hard to believe, and it was really annoying the time Alex wasn't allowed to buy some beer because I was with him, looked like I was under 25, and didn't have id on me and they thought he might be supplying to minors... but that's probably been the only incident where I've been super frustrated.
As it stands now, maybe one day I'll also be grateful. Although for now I keep telling people if I looked like an adult I'd be happy.
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I don't spend much on clothes, so I don't buy the sort that come in different lengths, so it's basically all tall. :-(
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