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There's a handful of communities on LJ I'd like to join (almost all DMC, actually - - no other fandom I've been in has been so damned obsessive about hiding their pr0n), but haven't, simply because they require you to be over eighteen, with a year of birth listed in your profile. And I'm not comfortable doing that, even now that I am over eighteen, and it took me a while to figure out why.

I think it's a carry-over from my earlier days in fandom, particularly with X. I was fourteen when I first started getting into the X fandom, which skews a lot more towards early to mid-twenties. And I never told anyone my age unless they outright asked, because I didn't want to be seen as the young kid in the fandom. And I still don't. Yeah, I'm eighteen now, but I still hang with people a lot older than me, and I don't want to be judged by how old I am, I want to be judged by who I am as a person.

Which I guess means no DMC pr0n for me >.>

Date: 2006-08-02 11:52 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_8317 (from dreamwidth.org)
I feel the same. LJ was talking about putting your birthyear in your profile to accurately show ages, but... bah. I started off lying about my age online, and so accurately saying it anywhere still makes me uncomfortable in that "but I don't want them to know I'm just a kid!" sort of way.

Date: 2006-08-03 12:14 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Ugh, I really hope that doesn't happen. I never outright lied about my (other than on websites that had the little 'Are you 18+? Yes/No' splash page), but I definately tried to avoid it - luckily 'how old are you?' doesn't seem to come up that often in conversations, especially as I apparently come off as a lot older than I actually am - used to occasionally get asked if I was a teacher/student teacher at my middle school o.0

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