Hello. i'm pretty new here, my intro is where it belongs - at intros' subforum.

today i just remebered that i used to pass most of the time when i was a kid (0- 12 y/o) unintentionally, of course, but i was pretty happy about that, and my mom was never mad at people who said sth about her "son".

has anything like that happened to you?

i've heard lots of stories like yours, but i never was mistaken for a boy as a kid.  my mom made sure of that by insisting on dressing me up and putting bows and ribbons in my hair.  oddly, i actually liked the ribbons lol, but that's just me.  looking back on my pictures, i look kinda boyish anyway, so maybe if i had been dressed differently i would have passed.

welcome to the site 

A childhood friend of mine who's a chick got confused more for being a boy than I did. But that's because as a kid I hated having my hair cut. However that was just because I was one of those wild children who didn't care about hair cuts or clothes, I just wanted to run outside as fast as I could and ride my bike as far as I could go. I only started getting confused for being a boy when I was 17, quite often and I was out as androgynous, it's what pushed me to coming out as trans. I miss those days.

As for my mum she probably would have let someone calling me a boy slide, now a days that she knows, pft she's sure to correct them as quickly as possible.

I always had long hair and a cow-licked fringe. Never dressed girly, but always in girls' clothes, and I had a small, cute face. No being mistaken for a boy there.

I have been refereed to as male my whole life by strangers.  Less now because I let myself get a little chunky, but I still get it a bit.  It used to really tick my mom off when we went out to eat at a cafeteria she really liked and I was always being called Sir. Sometimes she would correct them, but I think by the time I graduated from high school she gave up.