To think being short is mostly rubbish!

I’m five foot nothing and I fucking hate it.

You get to feel short. At 5ft 1 and a size 12, the last thing I am is Petite...

On the bright side, short people live longer, and if there is a famine you are better equipped to survive. Also you probably have small feet, so a better choice of shoes in the sales.

I'm 5' 0.5. That half is important! DH is 6'4. When we had been together a few months we went on a night out at my student union. He was hit on by 2 tall girls at the bar. He politely got our drinks and came straight back to me and our friends. Friend and I went to the toilets and the two girls from the bar fully laid into me for "taking their tall men". One of them had me backed up against a hand dryer, screaming in my face!

So as well as all the shit things that come along with being short, apparently we aren't allowed to marry tall men. 🙄

yup I look petite at a BMI of 19/20 - any more than that I skip curvy straight to chubby then matronly. My neck is short too - polo/turtle necks smother me & long earrings brush onto my shoulders.

I was heartened to read the fabulous Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is 4 feet 8.

Tall men seem to love dating shorter women so there is that.

I agree. And I am a bit taller than you (5 ft 2!) I hate it, and would love to be 5 ft 7 to 5 ft 8! The worst thing about it for me, is (as you said,) the inability to carry any extra weight. I look proper chubby at just a stone overweight. My 5 ft 9" friend can put on 4 stone and still look glamorous and willowy with her tallness, and her long bloody legs. FML! 😆

Years of seats being too deep has given me back issues.

Drivers seat in the car always too deep and am too close the steering wheel for air bag safety. Just learnt about peddle extenders so ought to invest in them.

So many already mentioned!

Standing at a concert I could the blokes in front of me talking the whole way through as the music went straight over the top.

People can be patronising as well. I had a super tall older guy at work say to me 'You're a tiny little thing'.
Wish I had said something now. I was 32 at the time.

Noooo … I’m 5ft 10 and would love to be petite.

Being tall is awkward for a woman, you feel like lurch, people in shops are always asking you to get them things off of the top shelf and sometimes you feel like your standing out like a sore thumb.

Flights are uncomfortable because there’s no leg room, you centre of balance is higher meaning for me I’m clumsy.… it’s just not that great!

But this isn't short is it

Having to clamber onto the kitchen sides to reach things in the top cupboards.

I hate hate hate being short and have quite an inferiority complex because of it 😒

Out of interest does 5'2" count as short? Asking as it's a bone of contention among a few of my friends (we vary between 4'10" and 5'3" or thereabouts)

I bought my child a t-shirt in age 11-12
I'm considering keeping it for myself now
I'm not a teeny tiny person. I know the only reason I can wear it is because I'm short.
It's a bit tight around the boobs 😂 but it's ok fit apart from that!

(I should say that I don't normally fit/look good in kids clothes cos I gave a grown up body shape 😂)

There is another annoyance the bigger shopping trollies can’t remember which shop it is but they are so deep I worry I am going to loose my balance when emptying the trolley and fall in

but apart from a few annoyances I love being small

Yes! I'm 4'7" and today we took the kids out. Got seated in the taxi and went to buckle youngest in, but the taxi driver opened the door and went "It's fine, I've got it for you sweetheart." I thought it was just me, but a few minutes into the journey he told DW that she was brave to take all four kids to the cinema.
We have three kids.

Then other days people barely glance at me when I'm buying a bottle of wine. For context, I'm 34 and I definitely don't think I look under 18 anymore! 😂

Struggling to be able to reach up high enough to get the hand held bits of the ski machine in the gym.

The skier handily has hooks to place the hand bits back half way down, easily in reachable distance. But no one ever does.

You are not short in any sense of the word so you have no idea what you are talking about. I hate these threads where someone of average height or more breezes in like this. YOU ARE NOT SHORT.

I'm 5 ft 1 and hear your pain OP.

What can stop shrinkage? Not everyone shrinks lots surely? But my nan ended up level with my boobs and im just below 5 foot! I don't want to shrink like that!

An amusing thread. I am five feet. Quite happy with it now I am in my 40s.
At work I worked with three women who were all nearly six feet, they would actually measure each other with a tape measure, and one would yell every morning ‘good morning little person’ - until I asked her to stop. I did feel bullied.
Being on the tube is annoying as you are essentially in someone’s armpit.
And I notice at work a lot of leaders are taller so I have had to work on being taken seriously.
My legs may be short but at least they work! I always count my blessings.

I'm 5ft 3 and around 9 stone 4.
I used to weigh a stone less and was defined as petite. I actually liked it but hated it as a teen. I weigh more now so definitely not described as petite like I was for years. Good old age.....

Only seeing eyebrows in the mirror
Nearly dislocating shoulder opening windows
Driving, can’t see shit
Legs dangling from chairs
No clothes arriving ever that look like they do on the models
Basically programmed to be fat at calorie allowance is that of a child