[DanaC]

I'm a little shy of 5'8''.

I used to feel quite tall. I still do some of the time, and I like that feeling. As a kid I didn't like it so much. I felt big and clumsy. And a little boyish. Was quite jealous of my uber petite and very feminine bezzy mate at high school :P All the lads loved her.

Sometimes I don;t feel so tall. Like when I am with my eldest niece :P She is just starting to edge me I think on height. I've noticed around town and in uni, that the youngsters coming up are slightly taller than my own generation. The average height seems to have gone up an inch or so.


[eta] By the time I started to really enjoy being tall, I was in my late teens. By which time my older (and taller at 6ft) brother had met his girlfriend, now wife, Jen, who is 5'9''. Dad was a little under 6ft I think and Mum was 5'5'' and is now probably 5'4'' because of her neck vertebrae sinking into each other.

So...being tall was really an outside thing. At home I never felt particularly tall :P