25 year old being able to pass as high schooler?

I'm 27 and I often get mistaken as a teenager. I have a friend who is my same age and she teaches at a high school and coaches the school's volleyball team. There was an incident at an away game, in which the refs didn't believe she was the coach. They thought she was the team manager.

On the other hand, there are people who look older than their ages. A few years back, I worked with a guy whose daughter was 17 at the time. She looked like she was in her 30s.

My friend- I am 23 and I get called 16 and 17 all the time. Just depends on the person.

I've gone to my old high school to pick up my 18 year old sister from school and some kids actually think I go to their school. =P

Now, Drew Barrymore was only semi-believable.

Her brother wasn't.

People always mistake me for a lot younger and I'm 26. I get ID'd all the time, which is annoying if I don't have my ID on me. Drinking age in Canada is 19, and the one day when I wanted to buy a case of beer I got ID'd but I didn't have it with me. So I had to get my step father to buy it for me. That was very humiliating. So I think it can happen if the right person does it.

But a lot of the stuff in this movie seems unrealistic anyway, so even if I didn't believe realistically that someone her age could pull it off, I would still believe it for this movie.

I myself walked into my old high school (in Sweden, ages 16-19 go there) a month ago to pick up some old grades, and was asked by a teacher "which program I was enrolled in". I'm 27 years old at the moment... Had to explain myself. ;) I have a couple of other stories that are similar. Plus - I've made the mistake myself. I thought that a 26 year old was under 16... And I once thought that a 25 year old was over 40... it all depends on a combination of genes and environmental factors.

I'm 24 and people think I'm 16. Lots of people in their 20s look young.

Lonely Chicago pie

Hmm my sister is 25 and looks 15. Everyone thinks she's the younger sister when in reality I'm younger than her by six years, but unfortunately I look way older.
I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life.

Well I am 30 and when I tell people they look at me like I've grown a second head. Generally I get a lot of 'Geez you look about 20, if that!'

So I think I could easily walk into a high school and pass for a teenager. Some people can and some people can't.

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-15th April 1989


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It's almost more about how you behave than how you look. Lots of early to mid 20-something people can pass for late teen years, if you don't look too closely and if they behave the right way. Thus, movie/TV high schoolers all look (to me, anyway) a bit old: no acne, etc.

A typical real 17-year-old is lacking a certain grace and confidence in their movement, their hormones are still raging and they would have acne and greasy hair and musculature is not fully developed. Their voices are not yet mature; boys have raspy, newly deepened voices and girls have higher voices than 20-somethings. Usually. Lots of exceptions.

A friend of mine was a high school teacher for a while; she's short, high voice, baby faced, and a great, youthful attitude toward life. She was always getting stopped in the hallway and they'd demand to see her hall pass!

When I was in my early to mid 20s I was commonly thought to be a teen (male, skinny, awkward, red lips, not much facial hair, shy, etc.). I could have passed for a high school kid pretty easily. It wasn't until I passed 40 (and receding hair) that people finally gave up asking. It wasn't so great - I was treated like a kid in my job, out in public, and people didn't always take me seriously. Hard to get dates, too; women like mature men, generally.

I thought Drew pulled it off because she's such a great actor and she had this kind of dreamy, spacey way about her that comes across as naive and immature, yet charming. Rob definitely looked on the old side, but on the other hand, 18-year-old senior guys often can look in their 20s; think college freshmen who are basically the same age.