Does anyone else have Patrick Klepek syndrome?

I have been applying to jobs lately and they all ask me if I'm over 18 but I'm actually 22. I'm only 5'8" also. On the Metroid Database's member photo thread I posted a picture when I was 17 and they said I looked a lot younger, and I post a new one this week and they thing I'm a teenager. I wonder how people like me age in apperance. I have seen some people with young faces look really weird if they go bald, but also, I see girls sometimes that look older than they actually are and I feel that is WAY worse than looking too young. I have a picture of myself on my profile if you want to see. Patrick is very skinny but I'm rather broad shouldered and muscular, evening things out a bit.

18 but I'm actually 22.

Dude that's nothing.

*looks at picture*

Oh....you look like a teenager

No but I do have the Vinny Virus.

If i was on chat roulette i would disconnect, just because you are a male and im not a pedo. Your thoughts are also kinda scatterbrained, and your typing looks young.

@gorkamorkaorka:

I'm 6' and look like I'm 18-19 at the most. Granted, I SOUND a lot older than I look, but still, it gets annoying. When you get older your metabolism slows, everything slows, actually, so enjoy the prolonged youth while you still can.

Sort of. I've looked like I've been in my late 20s for nearly 350 years.

@Dany said:

18 but I'm actually 22.

Dude that's nothing.

*looks at picture*

Oh....you look like a teenager

I literally had the same reaction. New haircut maybe?

Yeah you look about 17-18.

I guess you could start smoking and drinking like a sailor but that's probably not a good idea.

Used to until I was about 25 when I suddenly began looking more like a man than a baby.

Absolutely. I'll be 35 this summer and still getting carded for cigarettes. People say I look 20, and even that's pushing it. It's a curse.

@Gearhead said:

@Dany said:

18 but I'm actually 22.

Dude that's nothing.

*looks at picture*

Oh....you look like a teenager

I literally had the same reaction. New haircut maybe?

Yup. I've nothing against your haircut, but it certainly isn't helping your apparent age.

Get a Neil Patrick Harris, and be grateful that you'll age like Matthew Broderick.

Facial hair is the answer to everything.

I feel for you buddy. I'm 31 so it's really not a problem anymore, it's actually nice since I'm a 31 year old guy looking like I'm around 25? I always kept myself optimistic about this. I alwyas told myself "When your'e 30 you will looke 25 and so on". I have not magically aged more rapidly and now I reap the rewards :D But yeah... being in you early 20's and being misstaken for someone that is mabey 4-5 year younger kinda sucks.

I have the same haircut as a sweet baby teen popstar and people don't think I look old what can I do plz halp.

@Philantrophy said:

Facial hair is the answer to everything.

Eeeeh, a slight fuzz will only make it worse. If the dude got proper growth then sure.

grow a grizzly-ass beard* and you'll look older, unless your beard comes in and looks like pubes, then you look like a 17 year old trying to pass for a 25 year old.

*not a grizzly ass-beard.

When I don't shave I don't get carded. yet I hate facial hair.

Facial hair is the answer to everything.

When I took a course in school at 25, some of the younger guys thought I was their age. I think this had more to do with my reverting to high school behavior than the way I looked though haha

I got my first job job (that is it comes with an annual salary and medical benefits) at the age of 24.  My coworkers asked how a high-school student like me got hired for the position.

I look exactly as old as I am. I'm mad jelly of people who get to tell stories of how they don't look their age over or under.

Show your chest-hair, get respect.

I'm 21 and I could probably pass for 16.

I've always thought I was immature for my age, so I'm grateful that I look a few years younger than I am.

@mlarrabee said:

Yup. I've nothing against your haircut, but it certainly isn't helping your apparent age.

Get a Neil Patrick Harris, and be grateful that you'll age like Matthew Broderick.

Poorly?

I'd card you at work

Yep I get the same. Facial hair is really the only solution. That or a face transplant.

You do look very young..

@Breadfan said:

@msavo Who turned out dee lights?

dee lights on your life fool!

VINNYVIRUS2012

@gorkamorkaorka said:

I'm only 5'8" also.

I'm only 5'6". But I've got a receding hairline and a beard, so I've actually been accused of "robbing the cradle" when some of my fiancee's old co-workers first saw me with her. She is the same age as me (23).

I did have a friend, a female, who actually got carded on an airplane once because the stewardesses didn't believe she was over the age of either 16 or 18 (I think she was 21 at the time), as she was sitting next to the emergency exit door and needed to be an adult. I'm sure it sucks sometimes, but I figure being mistaken as a younger person is nice sometimes, too, right?

Yea dude like I am 18 and in college but people easily mistake me for in high school and definitely not 18. I would have to give credit to the fact I can't grow facial hair haha.

Checked out your picture, and yeah, you look like you're about 14 or 15. 

It was the opposite for me. When I was 14 people thought I was around 25.

Exactly why I grew a beard.

I'm 25, and I look 24... sucks trying to rent a car (probably... I don't drive).

I look young too, but I know why. It's because I have curly hair, bad facial hair growth and never exercise. I shave my head now and then, and even though I can't grow a full beard, I can pretend it is just the way I trimmed it as it is thick enough in the goatee area. I hate exercise, but having some muscles would surely help as well.

@MarkWahlberg said:

@mlarrabee said:

Yup. I've nothing against your haircut, but it certainly isn't helping your apparent age.

Get a Neil Patrick Harris, and be grateful that you'll age like Matthew Broderick.

Poorly?

Hey, that guy could pass for thirty-five if he wasn't famous. And if he wasn't married to that... thing.

EDIT: Oh, and that is a great username!

I'm 27, I still get carded on occasion. Bad genetics in the skin department I'm afraid.

I'm 32, but I look 25. My girlfriend is 18, but looks 16.
 
I know. Life is good. But I stay bitter.

The other way around, actually. The reverse Klepek. I'm 24 but my age usually gets estimated at 30+.

It's probably the beard.

@Ragdrazi: I just like to pretend that the old cliché of "men keep looking better and better as they age" is true.

Isn't the Patrick Klepick Syndrome an involuntary shudder whenever you see/hear Patrick or read something he's written? And yes, I have it. Sadly, there is no cure. :P

Numbah won: get a haircut

numbah tuu: grow a sick-ass beard

numbah trea: send all your money to me

numbah fore: ???

numbah fihvh: profit!

...god I'm bored...

I look my age (21), but if I grow out my beard a little I look like i'm 30. Beards are magic, give it a try!
 
Though, most young looking people can't grow facial hair very well at all. So maybe get a fake beard.

Heck no, I use condoms.

A 19 year old girl I know cannot buy a lottery ticket anywhere in my country because the law says you need to be over 14 for it. Very hilarious.

I look younger with my hair buzzed, and older when my hair is longer.