Teenage Height Milestones for Outliers- Short Boys and Tall Girls

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I’m a woman and on my 13th birthday I was 6 ft tall. I grew another inch after that too. There is absolutely no benefit to a woman for being over 6 ft tall and taller than 80% of men, unless she is supermodel material or a professional athlete where height matters. Clothes don’t fit and you awkwardly tower over all the boys at school until the last year. And mainly because the majority of men, who get so affronted when women reject them for being too short, will not date a woman taller than them.

I have 2 daughters and my oldest daughter turned 13 recently. She is 5 ft 6 and I estimate will end up no more than 5ft 7 or 8, a good height for a girl. My younger daughter shows no signs of being super tall.

My DH is 6 ft 3 so I expected my DDs to reach my height and did and said all the right positive things as they grew up, but inwardly felt sad. Now it looks like they will be normal heights, I am so, so relieved for them. Obviously there are many worse things that can happen to a teenage girl than being unusually tall but there it is.

Yesterday my 14 year old son and I did a back to back. He’s pipped me by a hair. I’m so hypocritical but I burst with pride. Life will be a little bit easier for him as a tall boy. So so stupid but it’s true.

I think height, whether a short boy or a tall girl is one of the last physical appearance thing it is socially ok to mock.

As a fellow tall woman I do know what you mean. Taller men are statistically more likely to earn more money and be more successful. Taller women too to an extent but we are made to pay for it socially.

I have twins who are average sized and I genuinely think their lives will be a smidge easier if they end up a few inches shorter than me rather than a few inches taller.

That said DS is 15 and over 6ft and I’d probably say that somewhere up to sbout 6 5” is the sweet spot for men as over the can have a tendency towards back / heart problems.

Agree OP, people do get mocked about height and it’s not a thing society really cares about doing anything about - people are probably more sensitive about short stature for medical reasons, but otherwise it’s seen as a fair game.

I’m not as tall as you (was just over 5 10, have shrunk a bit now) but it’s definitely true men don’t like you being taller than them (or even as tall), getting clothes and shoes to fit is a pain, etc. I cannot understand why other women are jealous and wish they were taller -it’s pants!

Im 5.10 and never minded it one bit!

Have so much attention for it- always have. Maybe having a good figure to go with it helps? Plus my mum always said if youre tall, own it, good posture, shoulders back etc.

Love being tall, never understood how other tall women dont like it...

Commands attention, loads of male attention.

In alot of ways I think whether you're tall, short or somewhere in between, confidence is what's attractive

That is very true and I think the same goes for shorter men. When they own it and style it out it’s very attractive.

I hate being the centre of attention though and am quite awkward which is probably why have less positive feelings about being tall.

This does make sense.

I think anything that makes you a bit different can work for you or against you, but makes you stand out for sure.

My brother is very tall but not confident, and would like to be a bit shorter, whereas I love being tall.

On the scale of everything tho, height is only a small part of who somebody is, lots more important qualities arent there

I am 5ft6 and my dh is about 5ft7 so he is on the shorter size and I am just above average, his height never crossed my mind when we started dating.

My sister was very tall at school and was always mocked for it…”oh isn’t she tall”, “what’s the weather like up there”. She’s now 6ft but it suits her as she has a lovely slender figure and clothes look amazing in her. On the flip side, my teen daughter (16) is very short for her age almost 5ft she’s always been 3yrs behind in bone/growth /height and again people have always felt the need to point it out - at primary school the teachers would always get them to line up in height order which always highlighted the fact she was small and made her so self conscious. My 18 year old son is just over 6ft, at 16 he was already taller than my 5ft 7inch but seems to have had another growth spurt.

I'm 6ft tall and I love my height. I was never mocked for it.

Very tall men get it too.
All the jokes....do you play basketball etc

Also shorter men getting drunk snd thinking it's a good idea to try and square up to the big man.

And clothes and shoes being a nightmare to buy.

My son is 6'8" and it's not always easy

Hate that height is still a think people feel they can mock in men.

I'm tall, there are times it's been useful. It's very annoying to be long limbed. Trousers are available these days but sleeve lengths remain a constant frustration. Coats are a nightmare. I never feel the need to wear properly high heels. I regard that as a plus. DS was premie and very small until year 10. He's now over 6ft. I think he was glad not to be the smallest, but would probably have been ok with being in the middle heightwise. DH and I are around the same height but people often look at me and say that DS gets his height from me. It's a funny old world