Today, I'm at the age where I'm supposed to be having the time of my life. I'm short and look so young that I get asked if I'm still in high school. Every girl I've ever known looks at me like a "little brother". The only girls who have shown interest are still too young to vote. I'm missing out on my 20s. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I'm a guy who's always been physically a late bloomer. In high school, I looked too young for girls to like me. At 22, I still looked 17. Now at 25, I look good but when girls find out my age, they expect me to have everything figured out by now. I never got to be young. FML
Today, I used to look so young for my age that in high school, I was regularly mistaken for a freshman. I never succeeded in getting dates because of it. Today, I'm 25 years-old and regularly get confused for being in my thirties. I guess all the stress from work, loneliness, and rejection really caught up. FML
Today, I'm 22 year-old woman, and my entire family thinks something is wrong with me because I've never been in a relationship. I'm starting to believe them. FML
Today, I, a person who will be 21 in a few months, was mistaken for my mom's older brother. My mom is in her fifties. Apparently this is becoming increasingly common, because the world sucks. I didn't realize it was affecting me this badly. FML
Today, I'm 23, but my development was starved due to my overprotective parents. My peers never accepted me, even though I tried to find someone to be friends with. To this day, I've been told I come off as creepy by more women than I have fingers on my hands. I feel like a fifteen year-old walking around in a man's body. FML
Today, despite the fact that I'm 20 years-old, my parents never allow me to go out and have fun with my friends, under the pretext that I'm a girl. I'm stuck at house all year long, I only go out to the college they forced me to study at, and they decide everything about me. I’m tired. FML
Today, I've reached the age as a sexless loser where my family no longer tells me to find a "single lady" but rather a "single mother". Thanks for reminding me everyone else had fun in their twenties. FML
Today, I'm 25. I dropped out of college when I was 19 because I didn't fit in. I was developmentally behind and looked like a fifteen year-old. All of high school I was excluded. I'm back in college now, but everyone still feels more mature than me. I no longer look or act young for my age due to years of stress. FML
Today, and for the last few months, I finally have enough money to be able to move into my own place. I can finally have girls over. I am also at the age of 26, where most girls stop wanting to go over to a guy's house. I wish I was 18 again, when independence is seen as new and sexy. FML
Today, I was asked if I had children who are in high school. I’m 17. This isn't the first time someone has mistaken me for a woman in her twenties. FML
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Chazzster 32
OP, I suggest a bit of facial hair if you can grow it. Nothing big or weird - maybe even just a mustache. Facial hair usually makes a man look a bit older. And that might be part of the issue… If you need an inch or so height try cowboy or motorcycle boots. They add an inch or more… I also suggest looking at how the men around your age dress and compare your usual dress to that. It might be a more age appropriate wardrobe could help… Funny thing, when we’re young we’re in a hurry to be older. But when you’re old you wish you had some of that youth back.
protoskore 27
if only you were bi.. lots of guys like the young / twink look
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Chazzster 32
OP, I suggest a bit of facial hair if you can grow it. Nothing big or weird - maybe even just a mustache. Facial hair usually makes a man look a bit older. And that might be part of the issue… If you need an inch or so height try cowboy or motorcycle boots. They add an inch or more… I also suggest looking at how the men around your age dress and compare your usual dress to that. It might be a more age appropriate wardrobe could help… Funny thing, when we’re young we’re in a hurry to be older. But when you’re old you wish you had some of that youth back.
protoskore 27
if only you were bi.. lots of guys like the young / twink look
DirtySalamander 9
just focus on yourself and build a career. don't worry too much about girls. they will come around during the road