I’m 26, and I’m honestly struggling with how I present myself, how I evaluate my confidence, and just overall struggling to be taken seriously. I feel like I lost the lottery when it comes to genetics. I’m short, my face is round, my voice is not deep at all, and to top it all off, i’m not the most fit, so when I’m meeting new people…they always get taken aback when I tell them I’m 26. And while I can see most people would love that for them…for me it feels like an insult…Adding onto all of that, whenever I work anywhere or participate in anything, it’s like there’s this weird…overly polite energy aimed at me, and it’s always like I’m a child putting the square in the square hole, y’know? Praising anything I do, telling me all these things and it’s like…basic shit, like doing my job. Maybe I’m doing more than I should be even still like…I want people to knock it off sometimes. Sometimes I wonder if people think I’m slow or something, even though I feel I don’t come off that way. Either way, I just feel like I’m never treated like a man. Like an adult. Do I need to lose weight or something? Like…I just wish people would treat me like a man. Like it’s to the point that sometimes I want to be seen like a bad man or something…not like awful, but I wish people were most standoff-ish for me being a man…instead it just feels like nobody takes me seriously at all and they treat me like a child. Even with girls, i’m not the “hot guy” or “sexy”, it’s “cute” or “adorable” and I genuinely hate it…what am I supposed to do? Has anyone else ever felt this? What did you do?? submitted by /u/spicyburntmeatball
Originally posted by u/spicyburntmeatball on r/AskMen