1. You'll get hit on by people a fair bit younger than you.
2. People will "awww" you at the slightest thing.
3. Including people YOUR OWN AGE.
4. When you go to work you fear you look like a child who's stumbled in by accident.
5. You'll get PLENTY of people saying, "You'll be glad of this when you're older!"
6. Or, "You're HOW old?!"
7. You feel disheartened when your younger relatives start to look older than you.
8. And you feel offended when you make a conscious effort to look older and people still think you're 15.
9. You still get questioned at the cinema when you try to buy tickets to films rated 18.
10. Even though your ID is 100% legitimate you always get nervous showing it at a pub or club, just in case they don't believe you.
11. You've occasionally reaped the benefit of getting a child fare on the bus.
12. People are shocked when they see you drink, because they hadn't realised you were old enough.
13. They're also shocked when they find out you've done other ~adult things~ that you're legally allowed to do.
14. You're asked about school or college when you've been out of education for a good few years.
15. Getting ready for nights out is a struggle because the line between "sexy and sophisticated" and "playing dress-up" is thinner than you'd like.
16. In fact, looking really young means trying to act ~sexy~ can be kind of difficult.
17. You've been given a children's menu at a restaurant even when you were definitely no longer a child.
just got given a kids menu at dinner. I start uni on monday...
18. You've had salespeople knock on your door and ask, "Are your parents home?"
19. But you can always pull the "sorry, Mum and Dad aren't in" card if you don't feel like dealing with it.
20. And you can walk down the high street safe in the knowledge that no people with clipboards will bother you.
21. So all in all, this looking-young thing isn't all that bad.
