I’m 5ft1.5 and everyone calls me tiny

[Lolita55]

Is it really that short? I know it’s on the shorter end of adult female height but it’s hardly a midget/dwarf size is it?

My partner is 5ft11 and everyone he knows tells him that about me and people I know often comment it too. I don’t think nearly 5ft2 is all that uncommon. Even average height seems to be only 5ft3 / 5ft4 for women in the UK.

I find a lot of women are only about 1-2 inches taller than me so visually look like the same height as me but even they think I’m tiny.

I am fairly skinny too (on thinner side of healthy BMI) but for some people being thin makes them look taller and I have narrow shoulders and a 28 inch rib cage which is probably adding to the small stature to the point I feel self conscious about it.

I'm your height and consider myself very short. The world is not made for me - I can never reach things and clothes are often too long.

Please don't use the word midget though.

I'm the same height as the op. The only things I have issues with. are reaching things from the top shelves in supermarkets and I can get lost in large crowds. I don't think anyone has commented on my size before, just as I wouldn't on theirs. I don't consider myself different to anyone else and as Ive never been taller I can't say I notice being smaller.

Why do short women always bang on about how cute and teeny tiny they are? Do you say things like 'Room for a little 'un?'

I’m 4’11, and fuck that!

There are a few short women on my team & we joke about it between ourselves, but if I get the “Oh, aren’t you small from anyone I smile & respond with “Yes, and aren’t you .”

I’m 5’ 1 and I hadn’t realised I was short until I was measured at the MWs appointment with DC1. I genuinely thought I was somewhere “around five five, five six...” 🙄😂 I made her measure me three times. Delusions of grandeur and clearly no ability to guesstimate height.

I’m not that slim but I’m nimble and resourceful, and happy to scramble up onto the kitchen counter to get high things. I don’t mind being short and it’s affectionate ribbing between Dh and I - for some reason, he loves the fact that I’m short and it’s an endless source of affectionate amusement for him. I like the attention I get from him about it - we’ve been together for fourteen years and the jokes are the same but it’s lovely between us. Very much less so if random people were saying anything.

I don’t feel short or “little” and I have a “scrappy” element to my personality - I'd NEVER refer to myself as little. I don’t see myself as short so genuinely get surprised when I can’t reach something - I think it might be some kind of height delusion 😂

Maybe they aren't referring to your height, but your build. Either way, I'd just take it as a compliment.

I’m the same height as you exactly and yes, it’s short. I’m also pretty slim and small boned. I’ve had comments about it my whole life and yes, it gets boring and pretty damn annoying. I think the worst thing is not being taken seriously, especially when I’m trying to talk seriously or angrily.

I’m 5ft ish. When I was a size 6 I received comments all the time about being petite, waif, tiny or pint sized. Now I’m of a more robust statue I don’t. They might say ‘god you’ve changed’ if they haven’t seen me for a while

I'm 4'11".

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a perfectly normal height, it's just that everyone else is abnormally tall Indeed, I never feel short until I see someone of about my height, notice how short they are and then remember I must be seen like that too

I have been known to make pre-emptive self-deprecating short jokes, largely because it stops other people making some very tedious remarks. Likewise, if someone comments on my height, I'll usually respond with "thanks for letting me know, I hadn't noticed before you pointed it out".

I am 5ft4 and get told I'm short. I am not a particularly small build really, I weigh about 9.5 stone but people always say Iool shorter than 5ft 4, no idea why. I have small feet and slim wrists/ankles so maybe that's why.

I would love to be 5ft6.

I am 5 7 and medium build

I get teased all the time for being short. I am one of the shortest people I know and most of 14y DDs friends are taller than me now. Although DD isn’t yet, she is nearly level though.

I do see people out and about who are shorter than me and I have one friend who is 5 3 ish I think, but I constantly have to protest that I’m not THAT small.

I'm the same height and I used to get comments from colleagues and friends when I was younger but more in an endearing way not nasty...
Now I'm older people just say oh you're so petite, I don't mind

At 5’8” I am the shortest one of my siblings (there’s 4 of us). DBro is 6’5”!

That's very civil of you, @DareDevil223

If I came across a woman saying that kind of ridiculous 'ickle me' thing, I'd want to thwack her too.

I am more aware of height now, as my DD is 6 foot and is very self-conscious about it. I wish she weren't. I wish it weren't an issue at all - but other people evidently comment on it a lot (the first thing people tend to say when they meet her is "oh my God, you're so tall").

In fact, she is the only reason I now realise that I'm short. I'd never really thought about height before.

I'm 5'6". Average height for a woman, maybe a couple of inches taller than average. What I don't understand is people saying "oh, you're tall". Female friends and even my partner say it. I guess it's an optical illusion as I have long limbs. I'm not tall.
As for shorter women, most women are shorter or around the same height as me and a few inches doesn't make much difference. I rarely notice if a woman is short. Unless she's walking with her eight or nine year old kid who is similar height. I think that's so cute. Sorry for being patronising.
I only notice someone's height if they're about 6'5". It feels strange to have someone that much taller than me. Otherwise, the difference between a short and tall person is only about a head in difference so not really remarkable.

I'm 5'6". Average height for a woman, maybe a couple of inches taller than average. What I don't understand is people saying "oh, you're tall"

I'm the same height and get called tall. I also get called tiny.

It's all relative to your surroundings, I suppose.

I used to find people that made stupid remarks about things like that were jealous. Could that be the case? You're not that short, but probably look smaller as you have a small frame. I notice extra tall people, usually men, there seems to be alot more nowadays, but people were probably saying the same 30 years ago. I'm quite good at guessing heights and I see quite a few who I'd say are 6'5".

I'm shorter than you OP, and a very slender build too. Weirdly I don't think of myself as small until I I see a photo of me in a group of friends. I always look like a child taken out on a day trip with the grown-ups
I am sometimes mistaken for a child - from the back only, unfortunately.
Handy for buying cheaper clothes and shoes though.

Well at 5ft 0 inches Im a lot smaller than you! Really does it matter that much ?I quite like being "helped " to reach something or having the door opened for me .My Cousin who is the same height ,likes being small too!Many boyfriends have been tall and dark ! Its a pain with trousers though ,I too find I need the short length taken up at M and S Zipyard near me though so no probs !

Well, you aren't tall, are you?

But I think you might just be that creepy poster PP have mentioned, who bangs on about being mistaken for a child and has some weird fetish about it: so I won't give you any further wank fodder validation.

I'm 5 ft 2 and haven't ever really given my height much thought, apart from what a pain in the arse it is to find jeans in a 28 inch leg.

DH is 6ft, I've never thought that there's an abnormally large difference in our heights.

You aren’t super short but combined with being slight, I should think that’s why people might refer to you as tiny.

Still, it is actually odd that they’d say it to your face.

I’m 5 foot 😥 My boss is something like 4’9’’ so I feel tall 🥳👍

I'm the same height and often feel quite tiny, op. However, now and then, actually most days, i see really truly tiny women (usually from the far east in origin) and feel like a great hulking lump beside them. It's all relative.

@hobnobsaremyfave Ah has this poster got form for this sort of shit then? Funny they haven't been back to the thread either!

Op has gone playing with his Teeny Tiny dollies.