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Oh ho, ho, ho... My thread, biatch!

For those few, fading whacky dudes still old enough to remember (And you know who you are), my gender was something of a rubik's cube on NS for quite some time, one of those perpetual puzzles that strained the minds of men and women in the style of the Greek Sphinx and the Mad Hatter. An enigma wrapped in a ball of confusion, and compounded by other questions about my nationality, religion, and sexual activies, ultimately resulted in my finished label of female Japanese Jewish virgin. Now, oddly enough, the real world seems to have stumbled into a new mystery about me, though thankfully not such a mystery that has my parents wondering if they're ever going to have grandkids.

Last week, in the first day of one of my new classes, one of my classmates questioned if I was a freshman in my first semester after I asked to check which class I was in (I've signed up for so many courses I could no longer recall what, exactly, Pl-Sci 014 stood for). Later that day, in a different class, one of my classmates asked me if I was the TA who would be teaching the course after I asked the same question (Pl-Sci 130 this time). Then, today, when my class is asking each other our various ages in Hebrew (Technically, we're asking each other "How many sons/daughters are you?" but it translates into a request for age) I get shocked and awed stares when I respond esreem v-echad (21).

Now I get that I don't exactly look like I'm in pre-school, and I don't expect to be mistaken for my father any time soon (Except over the phone, where I apparently sound exactly like him), but I don't get how I'm able to look so much like what I'm not on both sides of the age line. I'm not complaining, it's never been an issue (I don't drink so I'm never carded, and I haven't had the option to order off the kids menu for quite some time), but it just seems so odd to me; I look older and younger, but nowhere in the middle. It's just weird.

God damnit! Curse you Potarius!

Fixed.


Ha, ha, ha! On top again.

God dangit! Curse you Potarius!

Oh fiddlestix! That's just not peachy!

Enough with your "Oh goodness, that'd be keen!" 1950s-style language!


Edit: LMFAO!

I look older and younger, but nowhere in the middle. It's just weird.

It is all in the eye of the beholder. :eek:

lol, fiddlesticks.

you're really lagging behind friend.

Oh fiddlestix! That's just not peachy!

Okay, this is starting to tick me off a bit, I feel like I'm caught in a frikkin' time-loop here. Unless somebody shows up with a TARDIS I might just start freaking out.

Okay, this is starting to tick me off a bit, I feel like I'm caught in a frikkin' time-loop here. Unless somebody shows up with a TARDIS I might just start freaking out.

Pfffff, "Tard"...

...Getting back on the topic at hand, you're not alone. Well, my situation isn't quite the same, but it's close enough. I often get mistaken for being a girl (one that looks good enough to make guys follow her around in the supermarket and gawk from a distance), and when people don't make that mistake, they think i'm 17 years old, when I'm just about 20.

I think both of these things are actually quite good, though it can get really fucking awkward.

You're far from alone. During the time I was in college, I got mistaken for all of the above at one point or another:

- a new freshman (as a senior)
- a senior (as a freshman)
- a visiting high-schooler (on several different occasions)
- a visiting middle-schooler (as a sophomore)
- a professor's wife (as a junior)
- a grad student (on at least two different occasions)

In short, some of us are just ageless or something. :p

Okay, this is starting to tick me off a bit, I feel like I'm caught in a frikkin' time-loop here. Unless somebody shows up with a TARDIS I might just start freaking out.

Wha--? 1950s anachronisms freak you out but not time travelling phone booths?? :D

Though yes, everyone thinks I'm 40 when I'm on the phone, when in reality I'm less than half that.

Okay, this is starting to tick me off a bit, I feel like I'm caught in a frikkin' time-loop here. Unless somebody shows up with a TARDIS I might just start freaking out.

http://www.haggul.com/Product.asp?PID=1142355

I wish I was aging more gracefully than I am. Everyone seems to assume I'm in graduate school. Last year I was 19 living in a dorm for juniors and up, and people thought I was at least 24 or 25. Ouch.

Heh. Everyone thinks I'm a Junior. I'm a freshman. I have long hair. If I wear a hat I look, from a distance, like a female. Lastly, everyone assumes I'm some kind of emo type because ofthe way I look and dress. It's actually closer to "nerd", although sometimes I hate school so much I want to be emo...
...But that's another story.

15

o_0

Well, I'm 15 but I look 18-20, and a lot of people when they see me for the first time think I'm either a senior in high school / college freshman.

And people usually think I'm really strong because of my size, when in reality I probably have the upper body strength of an 8th grader.

o_0

What? You a pedo? *looks around for secret cameras* ;)

What? You a pedo? *looks around for secret cameras* ;)

I don't think I can be a pedophile, those cameras must be the mods'. My ego subconsciously demands that you be older than me to compensate for more eloquence and increased RP skills. Ah well, it's been dealt another blow today. :p

Wha--? 1950s anachronisms freak you out but not time travelling phone booths?? :D

Nope, it's having three posts in a row stolen by Potarius that freaks me out, it brings back bad memories of NS Classic (That server could eat your posts and spit them out three ways from Sunday before you even realise that you've triple-posted).