if you go around correcting my grammar and spelling you'll have more useless posts to your credit then you already do. semantics aside you are lying by omission particularily if he's to stupid to figure out you're as young as you come off being.
You can fool yourself with that type of denial but you can't fool us. You've alread mentioned how you've made certain your age isn't visible so save it.I'm not 'trying to pass myself off as being of legal age'.
You're hiding it as well as "simply not mentioning it" and you're hiding it because you know that knowing your age will make him distance himself from you if hes even given you any attention at this point (I'm not about to read through to verify)I'm simply not mentioning it.
Then tell him your age and ask him if it bothers him to chat with someone younger then him. What have you got to lose if you only want to chat?Heck, I'm not even attempting to start a relationship with him at this point; I only want to chat.