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* The protagonist of ''[[Accel World]]'' is 13 years old but looks at least 2 years older.
* Kyouichi from the first chapter of ''Himitsu Kichi'' [http://mangafox.me/manga/himitsu_kichi/v01/c001/10.html looks like a 20 year old] when he's no older than 10 or 11.
* Jewelry Bonnie in ''[[One Piece]]''. While only ten years old when she first debuted, her Devil Fruit power lets her manipulate a person's age, including her own, and usually chooses to appear as a young woman. Post time skip, she is about twelve. In hindsight, this explains a lot about her, as she has always seemed selfish and immature (such as how she tends to eat greedily with no regard for table manners), acting more like an atypical [[Pirate Girl]] than most female characters, though also clearly [[Wise Beyond Her Years]].
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* In general, children who go into puberty at an early age can look older than they are, especially if those signs of puberty are visible, such as height and voice deepening (in both genders), muscle development (in male-bodied children) and breast growth (in female-bodied children).
* Hard living in general can make you look older. Homeless people often look middle-aged in their late twenties, due to poor health practices and chronic stress. Back when it was common practice for women to have 10 or more kids while living on a fairly poor diet, they aged pretty fast too. And people who do very hard labour that's risky to your health, such as coal mining, often end up Younger Than They Look as well.
* Anyone born with [[wikipedia:Progeria|progeria]], a disease that causes rapid aging; sadly, sufferers never become As Old As They Look, rarely living past their teens. The disease was the basis for ''Jack'', as seen above.
** Also [[wikipedia:Werner syndrome|Werner Syndrome]].
* Some drugs in [[Real Life]] can do this, too. Heroin addicts in their early
** True for most drugs. Substance abuse is notorious for rapidly accelerating the accumulation of cellular damage and decay we normally identify as "aging".
* This is generally true for most people in extremely stressful jobs. Most American Presidents seem to age around a decade for each term. Just look at pictures of [[George W. Bush]] before and after his term. Hell, look at pictures of [[Barack Obama]] before his term and during his term.
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