How physically attractive do you think you are?

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6'3" 190#. upper-middle-aged. aging rock star hair. definitely can no longer fit into my army uniform/clothing, but for my age I am considered slender enough. I've been called "unconventionally attractive" which I take to mean stylishly homely.

by the numbers, it seems the poll suggests a majority think themselves attractive.

i do not care how i look.

i dress in whatever is at hand.
i only shave when the whiskers start to make my face feel itchy and scratchy.


i have an expensive limousine i drive, and i drive it to the shops dressed in what other people may consider to be rags.

whatever. as long as i am not obstructed from purchasing what i desire, and i can get home unscathed, i really do not care.

the other day, i made a u-turn into a carpark, and then i noticed a police car parked there. i decided i would park right next to them.

one constable came around and told me that i had just made an illegal u-turn, and i looked at him squarely and said "so i guess it's time to get my license out", and he knew instinctively that i was a smart person and we had a small discussion about the wording of signs, and i was not booked at all.

so if you hold on for "dear life" to how you look, then it is certain that your passage through time will strip your looks away from you, and you will be left with either a multitude of alternative ideas (if you did not care about looks) or else a feeling of desolate abandonment and a hopelessness of ever rejoining the world which no longer finds you physically attractive.


i look ok for my age. i have no wrinkles and i have a full head of hair which has no grey hairs in it.
but the most important thing is how intelligently you approach, or else deal with others.

...I answered " pretty good " , though maybe that's more my internal idea .

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It depends on the day.

I picked the "I'm pretty good looking" option on that poll. I'm no Tyra Banks, but I get by. I know I have many of the conventionally attractive features; I am tall, I am slim with an hourglass figure, I have big boobs, a firm booty, legs that go for miles, a decent face, clear skin, healthy teeth and when I do have hair, it's thick and lush. So yeah. I'm pretty satisfied and confident....which by the way you have to be to pull off the bald look.

But really. I don't know if you can ever really judge your own attractiveness since everyone is attracted to different things. It's so individual. What you find beautiful may not be what others find beautiful.

When I was young, I had horrible self-esteem. Because I found it so impossible to fit in with the NT crowd, I naturally assumed (not knowing I had autism) that it was because I was an unattractive toad.

Somewhere about the last two years of high school, the girls became more and more flirtatious and accepting towards me and I began to question my earlier assessment, but, as I still couldn't connect socially (much less romantically), I had to assume I was, at best, on the low side of average. Finally, after graduation, once my family announced we were moving away, one of the girls I knew from school and church confessed to me that the local girls had gossiped about how cute I was ever since we had moved into town. Doh!

In any case, as years went by, I began to realize I'd underestimated myself, and my problem had never been looks, but poor social skills all along (though I was still unaware I had autism and I'd never heard the term "social skills"). Now, I look at photos of myself between 15 and 30 and I could kick myself for being so naive. I was cute. Fine time to realize that now, as nature steals a little more with every passing year - fortunately, I'm aging much more gradually than my peers. I see what's become of most of the people my age and they majority of them are absolute trolls. It's pathetic how NTs let themselves go, once they trap a mate.

I am 5'3, and there is almost a consensus that alone is extremely unattractive in a guy.