Unveiling the Age Deception:
Why People Pretend to Be Younger
10 min readJul 27, 2023
Last week I ran into an old acquaintance of mine. I hadn’t seen her in years, so I took the time to stop and have a chat. She was with some work colleagues of hers who were all noticeably younger than us. She was a bit nervous chatting to me in front of them and relaxed considerably once they had moved on without her. She then told me, rather sheepishly, that…