Fear Not

[Petra456]

I'm 5'7'' and through out school I was considered tall. I'm the tallest girl in my family (they're all around 5'2''-5'4''ish?

[buckshot]

I would love to be short! It sucks to have to watch my head always and my son Jake has it worse he is a full 6"9'plus. I'm thinking of buying him a helmet!

[CezeN]

I'm 5'8, would love to be 5'11.
Not too tall, but not too short.

[Luet]

I have no problem with my height. I would rather be "average" height than a 6' tall girl. That would be much harder, I think. I'm considered fairly tall in my family, since most of the females are 5'2" or shorter (except for one branch of cousins that are really tall).

[Gravity Defier]

I used to hate being short because of all of the teasing. Even if it was playful teasing, it mixed with the mean-spirited stuff and it all became too much. I don't mind it now that I've been out of school for forever and a day, and actually think it's fun to be pocket-sized, on the whole. It has the added bonus of meaning most guys can easily tower over me.

[neo-dragon]

Yeah, petite girls are cute.

[thoughtreader]

I went to a Coast Guard day picnic today and a random woman called my mother in law a "cute little peanut" and reached out to pinch her cheeks. my mother in law is 4'10" and weighs 85 pounds, and was less then pleased with this.

I have never had much of a problem being short. I just pretend the top shelf in every cabinet doesn't exist, have lots of step stools and three step ladders around, and practiced making eyes at tall boys to reach things for me

[zeroguy]

Jan's 5'4" is actually about average for an adult North American female.

I think all you're demonstrating is that the average girl is short.

squeek squeek squeek squeek

What's that? You'll have to speak up; it's a little hard to hear you from way down there.

[Luet]

My husband teases me about being short all the time. And when I say in a joking angry voice, "I'm not short, I'm average!", he responds, "Says the angry dwarf."

[Young Val]

I'm with Kirsten and Helen and the other tall girls. 5'10, here.

Jan, for some reason I always imagined you as being tall. It's messing with my mental image of you to know that you are short! I remain unafraid of you, though.

[steph]

I would have thought Jan was in the tall category also.

I'm 5' 6.5" (sometimes I measure 6", sometimes 7"). I feel average.

[Jayelle]

Fun fact about my height I forgot to mention before:

Because one of my vertebrae had a compression fracture in my car accident, I am about 1/4 of an inch shorter then I was 12 years ago.

[VelvetElvis]

*towers*

[Wil]

I'm 5"10 and like a half. I usually round up. I could be taller and wish I was just maybe two inches more so.

[starlooker]

*towers*

*also towers*

(By the way, Kelly, something to look forward to with regards to the whole wedding thing -- being 5'10" meant they didn't have to hem my wedding dress, so that was one less expense and hassle, minor as it might've been.)

[Dr. Mobius]

*towers his 6'5" frame over those silly short people who seem to think they can tower*

[Noodle]

I'm late to this thread too (what a surprise) but someone's afraid of Jayelle? Huh. That's like being afraid of a teddy bear. A really awesome teddy bear.

[Luet]

You have to go listen to the interviews in the "Spotlight On" thread.

[Noodle]

Yeah, I started listening to those last night. I was only gone for like 2-3 years, I should be caught up on everything that happened around here after like a week back, right?