Were you mistaken as a child?

TeddyTedson · 08-12-2012 1:57pm #1

I remember people telling me I was a "lovely little gurl" and such.
My mam would be told her little girl is gorgeous and that I looked just like her. This was when I was over the age of 5 too. It would be forgivable if it was about a newborn or very young child.
Theses weren't old fogies either, they were young. Even other kids would ask my sister what "her little sisters" name was.
Now I've looked at photos and I don't know how people could ever confuse me as a girl, apart from the long blonde hair perhaps, but it was the 80s. Apart from that I was dressed and looked like a (real) boy!
Anyway it doesn't bother me because now people know I'm a man (with penis), but I'd never go clean shaven just to be sure.

I'm sure this has happened to lots of people. I'd be surprised actually if someone had never experienced it!

And why the hell does it even happen. It's not as if it's hard to distinguish.

The Big Red Button · 08-12-2012 1:59pm

Most kids look the same to me. If I saw a kid with long blonde hair, I'd probably assume at a glance that it was a girl.

Shane-KornSpace · 08-12-2012 2:01pm

Yeah.
Fukk me, Father Barry was furious when I told him I was 16

Where To · 08-12-2012 2:02pm

I'm often mistaken for a responsible adult.

Jesus Shaves · 08-12-2012 2:09pm

There's some things that you shouldn't post on boards

Temptamperu · 08-12-2012 2:11pm

No but i could use an adult from time to time.

Custardpi · 08-12-2012 2:13pm

Yeah I know how you feel OP, still happens to me. Here's a recent photo of me. As you can imagine, I'm frequently mistaken for Rosanna Davison. It gets a bit annoying sometimes to be honest.

January · 08-12-2012 2:15pm

I think people just take a stab. I was in a queue one day with my eldest, who was about 7 months old at the time. She was dressed head to toe in pink, pink soother, pink blankets and I even had a pink buggy (I cringe now, believe me) and some old woman goes to me "ah isn't HE lovely, what's HIS name"... as if it couldn't get more obvious that she was a girl...

Pilotdude5 · 08-12-2012 2:15pm

This is a picture of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a child:

http://lesandrist.weebly.com/uploads/3/4/1/7/3417271/5782428.jpg

Abi · 08-12-2012 2:16pm

Jesus Teddy, do you ever get a break :pac:

Ah I'd say it's more common than you think. I was always dressed in blue, so it happened to me all right. It took ages for me to get a decent head of hair too, which didn't help, and I was a bit Tom boyish.

Ghandee · 08-12-2012 2:17pm

When i was in my pram, I was ofttimes mistaken for a small bald Indian guy.

TeddyTedson · 08-12-2012 2:17pm

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

There's some things that you shouldn't post on boards

Tell me about it bro. Would love to delete about 10% of my posts.

This is ok for me though.

Dunny · 08-12-2012 2:17pm

Aye, by a garda.

Meant I didnt get searched tho :pac:

HeyThereDeliah · 08-12-2012 2:20pm

This goes some way in explaining your other ramblings.
Which is worse, people thinking a boy is a girl or people thinking a girl is a boy?

Celly Smunt · 08-12-2012 2:21pm

I was a mistake

Custardpi · 08-12-2012 2:22pm

January wrote: »

I think people just take a stab. I was in a queue one day with my eldest, who was about 7 months old at the time. She was dressed head to toe in pink, pink soother, pink blankets and I even had a pink buggy (I cringe now, believe me) and some old woman goes to me "ah isn't HE lovely, what's HIS name"... as if it couldn't get more obvious that she was a girl...

Actually the whole thing of girl = pink, boy = blue has only been around since about the 1920s/30s or so. Before that the fashion was the exact opposite. Maybe in the next decade or two it'll switch back & it'll be "obvious" that a baby in a pink buggy is a boy.