Do people often misjudge you based on your looks?

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I get it a lot. I look sort of like Coolio (the gaf member, not the rapper) I guess and once people get to know me they say I'm the complete opposite of their first impression. They think I'm this innocent school boy that does no wrong and doesn't know anything about the world. When people first hear me curse or say some biting sarcastic remark they look at me with wide-eyed astonishment. Anyone else experience this or done it themselves?
 
It's why I grew a beard. I look 16 without it. Now I look like a 16 year old with a beard, but people don't call me kid, or adorable, or buddy any more. People YOUNGER than me were calling me kid. Pissed me off.
 
I've been called GSP before and asked if I was Russian. I'm a bigger guy with a shaved head. My friends and I joke after we go out to the bar if anybody tried to fight me or not. I never pick fights nor am I a fighter.
 
Yeah, I am into Metal/Indie music and people keep talking to me about hip-hop and R&B.
Even girls who try to chat to me, talk about that kind of music and sort get confused when I talk about The Sex Pistols and Joy Division.
 
People seem utterly perplexed when I informed them that I like playing sports and am quite good at them.

I wear glasses and like a pie and am indoorsy. They honestly think I'm joking.
 
im by no means a criminal but i got involved with the police 2 times now and they always told me i dont look like a criminal nor do i talk like one. walked 2 times with 20 hours of social work though.
 
Yes.

People start talking to me in Spanish a lot because they assume I speak it.

Not a big deal though.
 
All the time. To be honest, half of them get it right.

A classmate once told me I looked "adorable." What the fuck does that even means lol.

CracknutWhirrun said:
Same man. People always tell me that I look intimidating or something and that they're scared to come up and talk to me. Gotta do something about that
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I dated a girl once and told me a lot of times that I looked intimidating and that made her really nervous during our first date.
 
People think that i am a normal person, but in reality i am a superhero.

I am not complaining, it's quite convenient.
 
People think I'm pretty conservative. I get a lot of assumptions based on how I dress and look, which is can be pretty annoying and frustrating, but because of the way a lot of Muslim girls put out themselves to be I can't really blame them sometimes.

I act pretty nice and I look really young so I'm also perceived as pretty innocent and naive as well, haha
 
lethial said:
Quit mean muggin, bro.
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Yes. Everyone thinks I'm around 16ish when I'm 24. It got so bad one time that a higher ranking colleague seriously asked whether we weren't breaking any labour laws.

As for personality, not really.
 
People usually think I'm angry when I'm thinking hard. An intern actually postponed a question by a week because of it.

Other than that, not anymore. But I got some weird looks from fellow traffic when they saw a 2m tall white dude in a black VW Golf blasting Dr. Dre.
 
Yep and recently I've been noticing it more. I've been hanging out with different people lately and they all think I'm a gigantic dork who stays indoors 24/7 doing math and playing video games. If it was true I wouldn't have a gigantic backlog and I definitely wouldn't be so far behind in uni.
 
I think I get token'ed a lot since I have the appearance of a more approachable black male. People seem more impressed with my vocabulary than they should be too.
 
People assume I'm stuck up. I carry myself with confidence but I'm generally pretty quiet, people assume that I think I'm better than them.

Couldn't be farther from the truth
 
I look cranky and pissed-off about 80% of the time, but it's really only accurate, like, 10% of the time. It's something about my brow.
 
Honestly, I dont know what first impression I give based on how I look.
I should probably start asking lol
 
One time when I was like 18 I was smoking some weed in a park with some friends and we got clocked by some police officers. Now, I look a fair bit more... respectable than the friends I was with, they were your crazy bohemian hippy types and I'm more of a hoody and jeans kind of guy, had like a big overcoat on. The cop who searched me was like "you don't look like you're involved in this sort of thing but we have to search you all anyway". I was just like "uh, yeah... totally...". Thank fuck he didn't find the ten-bag I had hidden in my sock...
 
vatstep said:
I look cranky and pissed-off about 80% of the time, but it's really only accurate, like, 10% of the time. It's something about my brow.
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Yep. I have a caveman brow and a relatively stronger jaw. If I'm not smiling ear to ear it looks like I'm about to chop someone up with a hatchet.
 
People often think that I play an instrument because I have a beard and longer than average hair.

For the same reasons, when I was in college, people asked me if I sold weed.
 
People usually think that I'm into metal or I'm a stoner, when I reality I've never done drugs and I'm into kawaii adorable j-music =D
 
I guess the only time I would be "misjudged" is when I go to some of my favorite mexican food places and the people assume I'm Caucasian (when im actually hispanic) because I'm more light skinned. As a result they speak to me in strained english (when I had just seen them speak Spanish to another customer), and I'm never sure whether to just respond in Spanish (nearly fluent) or in English. I'm not just gonna go out and say "oh my parents are Mexican, its okay!", and because my Spanish isn't perfect I don't want them to think I'm patronizing them or acting "impressive".

This only bothers me because once I just responded in Spanish and the person still assumed I was white and gave me an eye roll look >_>
 
Well...people get really surprised when I say my favorite music is rap, so I guess so. They think I just like indie rock or something, I guess. Even after I perform Big Poppa or something for fun (which also surprises everyone), they still ask, "So, what kind of music do you really like?"

Also, people assume I started liking rap because of Eminem. Ugh.
 
I'm black and have very squinty eyes, and everytime someone first meet me they say "are you high." I get so mad at that because when I say "no I'm not my eyes are just like this," they usually say "sure they are." It sucks, especially since I never touched a drug in my life.

That's the only bad misconception on my looks that I get.
 
I'm a big dude that can play sports pretty damn well.

sogood.gif when someone plays defense on me in basketball thinking I can't do anything.
 
I usually don't give a shit on how I look when I go out (except for a nice party or a nice place) so the shock people take when they see me in a suit or very well dressed is fun to see. I just don't bother to look good if I am gonna get some groceries, fast food, or even a beer at a local bar.
 
I'm a 29 year-old lawyer, but I'm often asked what I'm studying in school and told I look 18.

It's because I'm petite and have a higher pitched voice (and moisturize like a mofo). It's great looking so young, normally, but sucks professionally. It means I'm always climbing an uphill battle, since the immediate assumption is that I'm too young to know what I'm doing.
 
MYE said:
Honestly, I dont know what first impression I give based on how I look.
I should probably start asking lol
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I make a fantastic first impression, you always see hot girls approaching me. That of course disappears as soon as I open my mouth. I have a terrible voice and awful accent, and I have trouble pronouncing some words any expressing myself. I love talking though, so people eventually get used to hear me, even though their panties are drier than the Sahara.
 
Keri said:
It's because I'm petite and have a higher pitched voice (and moisturize like a mofo). It's great looking so young, normally, but sucks professionally.
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Yeah I got this up until 28 or so, when I just looked 'young' vs 'like a highschool kid'. Was treated like a surrogate son by a lot of people who were only a couple years older than me. Having a child helps age one a bit haha. My wife, on the other hand, still gets this from a lot of people, and she's older than me!*


*By six months but oh, does it ever count :P
 
Yeah- I get it all the time just because of what I wear and my not caring.

In the winter time in Ohio it gets cold, but I hate the bulky jackets so I have a hoodie that has heavy down in it or something that makes it super warm. When wearing this hoodie and a black beanie I look like a guy who lives in the rough part of town- but it's cold and I don't care so I do it in anyways.

One day a friend and me decided to go to the mall and go into Nordstrom's which had recently opened there just to check it out. Now, she's not exactly wearing high end clothing either- but we look a little out of place in the store and every person is giving us dirty looks.

We get into an elevator that's fairly full still getting the "why are you in this store?" looks, and people were talking about the weather. I sometimes love to fake accents, and since the people were already glaring their hate for my presence I threw a British one on and said something about the weather. Their entire attitude towards me seemed to lift.

Not only misjudged for clothing, but misjudged positively for faking an accent. Perception is a lovely thing.
 
People often think that because I am physically unattractive, that I am not, therefore, physically attractive. But they are wrong, I am handsome and ripped...on the inside. And that's where it counts.
 
Relix said:
I usually don't give a shit on how I look when I go out (except for a nice party or a nice place) so the shock people take when they see me in a suit or very well dressed is fun to see. I just don't bother to look good if I am gonna get some groceries, fast food, or even a beer at a local bar.
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I wonder how many people would mistake you for Reggie if you went to E3.
 
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