i look older by like 3 or 4 yrs

I'm 22 but i look about 4-5 years younger then i am. +5

Older. People tend to age me up to ten years younger than I am.

I think I look a few years younger but I've been known to be wrong..........Occasionally

I have been told that I look younger than I am, by 5-6years!

i look 2years older

I'm not sure how much younger i look? But i am quite often told i don't look my age, that they thought i was younger!

This is going to be a somewhat long post, I'm giving you more than you asked for, but I think its somewhat an interesting subject. When I was 35 I was still being carded, even had folk say my ID was faked (I looked under 21). When I was 21 I was being stopped by the truant officers (oops I'm dating myself) and put to the question, they seemed to think I was a high schooler. Of this was still the day and the age when Truant Officers prowled the street during school hours looking for kids out of school. Gray, no actually white, hairs are beginning to dominate my blond head hair - My beard has long ago turned white, wrinkles and skin blemishes especially in the face are not there. I pass for 30-35 - I'm a wee bit older. If I dress in jeans and a t-shirt and hang with the nieces (who are in their early 20's) their friends think I am a cousin, not an uncle. Aside from the crippled knee and the herniated disks in my neck, I am in general good health. Low cholesterol, low to normal blood pressure. With the exceptions of injury my physiology is on par to a 28-30 year olds. I note this because other members of my family have the constitutions of younger people, thus the 'no aging' thing is more than skin deep. My great grandmother age 98 had the constitution of a 50 year old and had few lies, her white hair is the real sign of her age. she died simply because the hip-replacement became infected. Considering that the doctors all thought she had the health to endure the procedure (back when they opened you up from waist to knee) is somewhat telling of her physical age. My mother, in her early 70's (Denies it) dyes her hair, passes for late 30's early 40's. Nope not a single visit to the plastic surgeon. She insists she is 39. Which is odd because I too am 39, have been 30 for a few years ;-) LOL. My father has allowed his hair to go white, has grown a full white beard (skinny Santa), when he shaves even though he is 72 he still can pass as fifty, if he shaved and dyed his hair he most likely would pass for his early to mid 40's. My whole family tend to look younger than they are, with a few exceptions, such as my grandmother on my mother's side. She did not age well, but she had a collapsing spine starting in her late 20's, from pain her eyes were sunken and she 'aged' a lot even before she was 50. A few wrinkles, most of her aging was 'pain lines' and the sunken darkness of cheek and eye that constant pain causes. We males tend to look older due to the fact we don't do the metero-sexual hair coloring thing most of us have a beard and or mustache. Our women, they do use the hair dyes and they all look they are young girls married to old men. LOL The rest of us tend to hold it together until around 90 - then real aging takes place, wrinkles, weakness, debility. Until then the only sign that we are 'old' is the loss of hair pigment - most of us turn white haired (not gray). My Great Uncles on my mother's side are both past 100 103 and 105) neither look a day over 70. (Yep both are still alive and kicking). Both waited until their early 80's to 'retire'. Sort of a misnomer since both are still active, Uncle Joe still potters around in the workshop making furniture, toys, blah. Granted it takes him a little longer now, but he is still active. My great grandmother on my father's side lived to about age 122 - though there was dispute. It appears they were not handing out birth certificates often in 1874. She looked barely 75-80 when she passed on. Her parents (my Great Great grandparents) both lived to their 100's - at least that is the rumor. Her mother was born in 1853 (so is the claim) Her father born in 1849 (again so is the claim) Both passed on in 1958 (105 and 109 less than a month apart, had been married since 1868, yes they were married for 90 years.) The photos of them are of fairly young looking people - few wrinkles. He worked until he retired at age 101 on the farm. My Father's side they only tend to live to their late 90's. My eldest living relatives are in decent good health. Most who have died early have either been accidental (my grandfather was crushed in a mine collapse) or foul play; my Aunt Patty was shot then stabbed and finally hung - she died from the hanging, not the gunshot wounds (three) not the stabbing (several). The other reason my family dies, especially on my mothers side is due to liver conditions caused by excessive use of spirits (alcohol). Folk who marry into the family tend to die early. Another effect is that infant mortality was slightly higher until my Grandparent's generation, prior to that few children survived their first year. My mothers sisters (5 living, 2 dead) all had 1-3 children, 1 being the most popular number. All of them (her sisters) being first generation born in the USA tended to marry established American families, the exception being my mother. Their kids tend to look older, since their fathers descend from short lived (ya know 75-80 expected life spans) fathers.

At 16 I was being served in the bars,imagine how old I look now at 43...lol

Everyone seems to think I'm a good 5 years younger than I actually am, which at my age isnt that good!