When you are in your twenties and look a whole lot younger, you simply learn to enjoy the feeling. You even feel flattered when someone asks you to pop an ID. But when you hit thirty and still look like you were born a decade ago, it’s a simple switch from flattering to annoying. Are all women with a baby face nodding a vigorous YES, yes?

Well, I understand. With a couple of friends who assumed thirty was their magical ticket to adulthood and mistakenly so, I can almost feel what you are going through. So, I spoke to these baby face darlas of mine and decided to list out the struggles you adorable peeps go through:

1. The ID problem

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It’s not just alcohol, cigarettes or cigarette lighters but sometimes, even nail clippers! If only the lottery guy would not make you feel the same way by asking you to fish out an ID, you’d actually buy all those tickets to win a truckload of cash for plastic surgery!

2. People take to you like they’d take to a child

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While clients asking if you are interning at the firm needs you to glue that pretend-to-be-patient smile on your face, waiters bringing you the children menu at restaurants is plain annoying. Your friends, of course, all think ‘tis hilarious! <hide behind the menu>

3. Which means, not seriously

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If only the ‘you are such a child’ saga ended there, it would still be good. But your face simply ensures that your opinions are dismissed without another thought. People think you are too young to actually know what you are talkin’ of. It happens ALL THE FRIGGIN’ TIME!

4. You are overlooked by your boss

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This is, perhaps, the worst of’em all. Your career progression is almost always in jeopardy coz well, you are cursed with a face that makes your bosses pass you over for a promotion- coz well, other people are older and have more work experience! Even when you know they aren’t!

5. The men approaching you are, <sigh>, all wrong

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Looking too young either attracts wannabe-teens wearing their dad’s aftershave or older creeps who are into young chicks. Ew!

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6. Life is one giant glob of social awkwardness

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When you aren’t being ignored or passed up, you are simply the bu*t of all jokes. Coz statements like ‘you’ve been in marketing for seven years’ or ‘driving that Chevy for 9 years straight now’ are hilarious from your mouth! FML!

7. God forbid you are a wife or mom and the jokes begin to hurt, (ya know) really hurt

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When you are a baby-faced mother, the disapproving stares, comments and jokes never fail to sting. Worse, even when you aren’t a mom and seem to be walking by your niece, you can’t help thinking people are branding you as a ‘teen mom’ behind your back! FML- part 2!

8. Not to mention the wardrobe is not a source of joy but breeding ground for dilemmas

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Picking that pencil skirt and shirt makes you look like you are playing dress-up with your mom’s clothes and opting for younger, peppier versions makes you look like a real-life Barbie princess! FML- part 3! Seriously, is there an end to this? <sigh>

9. The ‘is that your dad’ questions sting when you are out with your boyfriend

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 <crying hysterically>

10. You often get the ‘are your parents home’ treatment from pesky salesmen

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Ditto for charity collectors, insurance people, religious nuts..but wait- this one’s not really bad, right..finally!

Not to forget you don’t have to spend a dime on anti-ageing products and could possibly even avail sneaky discounts by asking for student deals! Life’s ain’t that bad, right? 😉

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