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The poor lassie may be blighted as I am: I genuinely cannot accurately tell anyone's age. I've never been able to do so. I think the affliction is a cousin of the time blindness afflicting those with ADHD.

I've insulted soooo many people over the years when I've been forced to guess.

If you've been on the receiving end of this, please trust me, we don't mean to be rude!
Those people that FORCE you to guess their age are insufferable though, they're desperate for the guesser to state they look like theyre 3 hours old. Its a weird vibe and frankly they deserve to be insulted. And maybe sent to prison
 
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Outing story:

I can barely remember my own age. For three years running I kept thinking I was 35 - I was only 35 for one of those years.

If I care that little about my own age you can take a guess at the amount of forks I give about anyone else's.
 
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There's another over protective mamma bear worrying about her 26yo son going away for the weekend with a woman, to that there London Town, and she's concerned they might bag.
Obviously it's a load of old balls but still. I always find it best to not know what adult children are up to. That way madness lies 😂.
 
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Those people that FORCE you to guess their age are insufferable though, they're desperate for the guesser to state they look like theyre 3 hours old. Its a weird vibe and frankly they deserve to be insulted. And maybe sent to prison
Oh god, I work with a woman of 50 - landmark birthday this year so I know - and she is always badgering others to tell her how old they think she is. I do my usual, subtract 15 years and tell her she looks 35. She doesn't, she looks 50. Very lovely, but definitely 50. Everyone else tends to follow my lead (I'm the office alpha female, right?) so this deluded woman genuinely thinks everyone at work thinks she looks so very much younger than she is.

Mumsnetters aren't polite themselves, so can't understand why some of us won't want to hurt someone's feelings, and therefore when someone tells them they look 25 and not 40, they believe it.
 
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A few weeks ago I had someone express surprise at my age (the far side of 60) and say she'd have guessed I was in my 40s. I look every day of my age (nobody I knew ever used sunscreen back then) and can only conclude that when you're 23, as she was, the 40s and the 60s are in the same box, labelled OLD PEOPLE.
Same here when everyone at work is amazed I'm over 30, when I'm a haggard looking 44 year old who doesn't wear make up, and go far too long between colouring my roots.

Whilst I'd love to kid myself its great genes and expensive skincare keeping me looking young, in reality I know it's because my team are mostly in their 20s and anyone older than them is just old, whether grandma old or just too old to be hanging around with people in their 20s 🤣
 
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Same here when everyone at work is amazed I'm over 30, when I'm a haggard looking 44 year old who doesn't wear make up, and go far too long between colouring my roots.

Whilst I'd love to kid myself its great genes and expensive skincare keeping me looking young, in reality I know it's because my team are mostly in their 20s and anyone older than them is just old, whether grandma old or just too old to be hanging around with people in their 20s 🤣
Same. Aside from the lass in the post office, I've had a couple of colleagues tell me they thought I was younger than I am and I know full well it's only because they're in their early 20s and therefore think people in their late 30s should look like Mr Burns from The Simpsons 😂
 
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There's another thread about tattle being meanies 😂
It looks literally like a copy and paste of the same one from before 😐 What do they get from it as the replies are often sensible and well balanced (SHOCK HORROR) and never really agree with the OP
 
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