To think being short is mostly rubbish!

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For context…. I’m 4ft 11. And it’s rubbish! Here is why -

• Food! I can only eat about 1500-1700 a day. I exercise a lot, I try to be healthy but a couple of biscuits and boom, I’m a fatty!
• Food no.2..eating out.. If I have a main meal then a pudding it can be more than my daily allowance.
• Gaining weight! One tiny bit of weight and I’m a fatty. And it’s far easier to gain then loose!
• Alcohol - I just can’t handle it. I’m a ‘cheap date’ but who wants to be drunk on one glass of wine!!
• Cloths - they just don’t fit! At 14 I got a sewing machine so I could take up all my jeans but often it’s not just the length. The curves and shape just doesn’t fit!
• Cloths no.2 - short person, little feet! I used to be a size 3, now most size 3 are too big! And 2.5 are less common.
• Respect.Im an adult, a full on grown up but I constantly feel younger than I am because often feel like people treat me that way. I’m sure there is a statistic about career success and hight/earnings (tall people do better)
• Running! A 5k for me is a LOT longer than a 5k for someone with longer legs!!
• Supermarkets - why put things so high up!!
• People thinking I’m ‘cute’ if I was me, but taller, I wouldn’t be cute.
• concerts - I can’t see. Any group of people and I’m stuck looking at people’s backs.
• nose in armpits on busy public transport.

Im sure there are more!!

I also suspect being taller than average is equally rubbish - public transport seats, cloths not long enough etc (but could eat soooo much food!!)

@Clementine22 To be honest, I think tall people have a tricky time too. My friend is 6ft 7 (he’s a man).. his foot is the size of my thigh, it’s comical. He struggles with a few things… like shoes which are big enough, fitting in small cars etc.

If you give me a bit of your hight, we could both be perfectly average 😊

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'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. 🙄

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.

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

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

The five foot five people on this thread complaining about being short are pissing me off.

Yes! Thank you for this post!

5'0 here with disproportionately short legs.

People talking to you like you're 12 is the worst thing...

Dangling feet in seats is a daily irritation - feel like I'm never comfortable on transport or at the theatre or even in a dining chair and I've had loads of back problems because of it.

Crowds are hideous - standing at gigs is horribly claustrophobic especially when surrounded by blokes. Someone once used my head as a stand for their newspaper on a crowded tube (it was the Financial Times for the record).

Also - longsightedness is much worse as you're always too close to whatever you're trying to see (eg dinner!)

Definitely feel I've had more sexual harassment etc as I'm an easy target.

Yep - I feel your pain re cars, clothes and calories too.

I guess there are some upsides but lots of disadvantages for sure.

Thanks for the solidarity, fellow petites!

I think there's only one isn't there

I didn't even take it seriously

I feel exactly the same and i’m so 4ft 11. I’ve just eaten a whole lot of biscuits and now massively regretting it as I’ve gone way over my calorie limit for the day. If as nightmare trying to eat anything as you say, boom you’re well over the target and losing weight isn’t easy.

I’m also fed up with the lack of respect and short jokes. I’m in my thirties and thought the jokes would have passed in high school but nope, I even get them when I take my dd to her toddler classes.

everyone else seems so tall too. I was always one of the smallest at school but didn't feel incredibly conspicuous but all my kids/their friends tower above me, and younger colleagues are all so much taller than me. I spend my life looking up at people!

I can’t see that anyone has mentioned one of the main advantages of being small is that your clothes and shoes take up much less space in a case.
My sons are are all 6’+ with big feet, and a flight bag is full with far fewer items than my bag. Thier jeans and jackets and trainers take up so much space!
Theatre and plane seats are really problematic for them, whereas it’s not an issue for me unless I’m standing at a concert.
Food bills are cheaper if you are smaller, because you need less.
Other than that, I think its easier to be tall.

@DaemonMoon I think it's the spine and cartilage compressing due to old age and osteoporosis. Not sure you can stop it really. Mum also now has a curvature which doesn't help.

4ft 9.5 here.

Really feel the being treated younger, even when working in a senior job.

Still being ID’d at 36.

My maintenance calories are 1300 so needing to lose weight, I can only eat 1000 a day and that’s still only half a pound a week 😭😭😭

I have eaten too much over the last week so need to reduce again now

I was granted the wonderful nickname of Scrappy Doo in a previous workplace 😡

I am 5' 1" and you can guarantee that if I go to a gig or a festival that the 6ft plus blokes flock to stand in front of me! I am sure that they see the short people and do it on purpose.

I'm 4'10" and agree to a point!
But I'm a runner and although I do more steps I don't feel at a disadvantage there.

The worst things for me are

• Clothes - even petite is too long

• I'm size 8 and a healthy bmi but I look like a chunk

• DC friends telling me they're bigger than me when they're 8 or 9...yes I know, you're excited you're taller than a grown up buy it's pretty tedious when the 20th one tells you (and I'm short, not unobservant!!)

• mirrors or shop counters being at eye level

• being ignored/overlooked

• being at armpit level on the tube in hot weather!! 🤢

But benefits are more space on trains and planes 😊

What about - not being able to open/use communal bins! There’s no chance I can lift the lid high enough with one hand to chuck the bag in with the other!

and - not being able to reach the ticket machine at the car park barrier 😫

@DelphiniumBlue - I’ve got to agree, small cloths are better for packing!

@TheYearOfSmallThings I did not realise shorties lived longer. I wonder why!

@mustardrarebit Thats really horrible!!

I was speaking on a conference panel once and the setup was ‘bar stools on stage’ - I struggled to get up very inelegantly, and had to sit perched on the edge to be able to have one foot reach the foot rest.

I heard Scott Mills saying you should take a pair of tongs to get car park tickets out and I've seriously thought about it! 🤣🤣

That’s insane! We are just as entitled to the tall men as the tall women. Just as they are just as entitled to the shorter men. Why so much of a hoohar from the taller ladies it’s a bit juvenile 🤔😵‍💫 like if your 5’4 or under you will not exceed a maximum height limit of 5’11 for your partner 🫤 eh 🤔

Just so shit isn't it 😶

5ft 6.5 here and always wanted to be shorter! Dh also not very tall so don't really wear heels :-(
My children are petite, my ds especially hates it.