not paedomorphic

paedomorphosis is supposed to be applicable to species that have arisen due to the retention of a physically juvenile state in adulthood....and it's a term that's completely the opposite of who I am right now.

yeah, yeah, I'm not a new species...but what I'm trying to say is that I'm younger than how I look. I've always been consistently mistaken as at least 5 years older than my real age. When I was 20, someone thought that I was 28 (despite the sweatshirt-jeans-sneakers-messyhair look). And everytime the age thing comes up, students are always surprised that I'm still in my mid-twenties--as opposed to their perception that I'm at least in my mid-thirties!

Hmmm...I don't necessarily follow fashion trends and I don't think my look is overly outdated, so I still don't understand why I don't look like my age.

So I resolve to just let it go and not obsess about the issue. I do not intent to change anything about myself anyway so I suppose I should just consider it as sort of a compliment. That perhaps I seem, uh, mature?....eventhough based on my self-awareness....that I am far from being even remotely considered mature. Example, I obsess about not looking my age. That's something a mature person shouldn't dwell on, right?

I just wasted a good amount of time. Pitiful.