If our physical appearance never changed past a certain age, yet we continued to age normally, how would this visual perception effect the world? or you?

People would be surprised when you dropped dead of old age or behaved in a senile fashion.
Besides, with enough plastic surgery your fantasy is real today.

It would certainly be odd, for a sighted person. But, I suppose the blind have no visual cues as to a person’s age, and they manage just fine. I wonder if it would affect how we’d view ourselves, though. Would we constantly have to remind ourselves that we’re not as young as we look so we don’t do some physical thing that exceeds our ability? Would we enjoy being hit on by those who are way younger than we are, or would it become annoying? Interesting question.

Just for clarity here, would our reproductive organs age or not?
If not, show me where to sign up!

I have some experience with this already. I have not really aged in the last 20 years, kind of like Stacey Dash. People are shocked to learn that she’s ~44 now. I get the same reaction. I make no effort to hide my age, and will tell it when asked, much to the horror of one of my older sisters, who believes that there is still age discrimination in the world, especially in my business (I’m a writer looking to sell a couple of TV pilots), and that it’s worse for women.

What I’ve found that’s weird is if I carry on as I do, I give advice and talk about what I remember from the 70s and 80s at times. I get very strange looks. I remember talking with some younger people recently about having to sit in a car in a very long queue waiting for gas in my aunt’s car at SuperAmerica gas station when I was a little girl and they’ll ask, “Oh, when was that?” and l said, “1973. I had just turned 4. There was a gas shortage that summer”, and their jaws dropped as they did the math.

Actually, the same thing happens when I’m around people my age and up as well, but they get over their reactions quicker. Younger people will go on and on about it, which can get annoying. People who were born in the late 80s and early 90s, especially, are very shocked. “You’re old enough to be my mom!” Yes. Yes I am, kid. “But you’re, like, young and hot-looking.” Yes. Yes I am, kid.

It is sometimes disturbing to me that I get seriously hit on by men who are old enough (or young enough, depending on your reckoning) to be my son. I have no desire to fool them that I’m in my early 20s, so I tell them right away what they’re dealing with; they should be free to make whatever choice they want in that regard, same as myself. I have no desire to date a 21 year old. Then again, the old adage that “if you remember wearing it once before, you shouldn’t wear it again when it comes back in style” doesn’t apply to me in the least. I can rock any outfit I want and not look silly.

There are many people who do not look their age these days. Marg Hellgenberger is 52.

Does it affact how thye are perceived? of course it does.

Wow, the outfit Stacey Dash is wearing in that picture is really disgusting. As far as her face though, you are absolutely right, she is gorgeous (and not for her age)!

As for Marg Hellgenberger, she kinda does look her age.

I would never settle down…...lol.

Stud muffins and Hooter girl types greeting you at Walmart would be a whole new experience!! XD

Here is a good example: you buy a brand new automobile and never drive it. you store it in a garage. twenty years go by and you decide to either now drive your new auto or sell it. you uncover the tarp and discover your twenty year old brand new vehicle looks fabulous on the outside. but wait, why are the four tires flat and why is their oil on the garage floor?

True, this is still a brand new automobile on the outside, but time and age has taken a toll on its tires and transmission. its tires have dry-rotted and gone flat. the transmission seals also have dried and cracked and now leaking transmission fluid. there is work to do and money to be spent, before your brand new twenty year old auto hits the streets.

The same applies to humans. even though we may still look great on the outside, time also takes a toll on the inter-workings of our body. this is why we have doctors and surgeons and plastic surgery. a nip and tuck here and belly bands there.

It’s been done, remember the Stepford Wives? lol

Sooner or later something will short circuit. lol

Looking older has actually been good for me. Although, last time I asked, I look younger than I am (maybe they were just being kind—still, they seemed genuinely shocked). In any case, people call me sir, and hold doors for me (which I like because I don’t like touching the door handles). The young people look at me as if I actually had something worth listening to (except my kids, but that goes without saying). People even pay attention to me at work.

If my looks stopped here as I got older, I think I’d lose out on any remaining perks of age.