Tall, Short, Average?

[monster]

Are you tall, short, or average and how do you feel about it? I'm average, but I'd really like to be a little taller -not super-tall, but maybe 5'7" (female average is 5'3" US 5'4" UK, I'm 5'4")

[Clodfobble]

I'm tall, apparently, at 5'9". But I don't usually notice it, I feel like I'm average.

Also, it's all in my legs, I have a relatively short torso. On more than one occasion, I have stood up from a sitting position, and someone in the room has commented with surprise that they hadn't realized how tall I was.

[footfootfoot]

True, you post much shorter.
I'm 6 feet and I never really think about it. It just seems like a normal height to me. I never really notice that people are short or shorter, or if I do I don't really think much of it.

Every now and then I meet someone who is really tall and that is an odd experience, to look up at someone when I am talking to them. It feels strange and I wonder if that is how most people who are shorter than me feel.

Dunno.

[monster]

beest is tall -6'2". I find it weird now to speak to men around my height, I expect them to be taller. But not teenagers. Thor plays hockey out of Compuware Arena, home of the semi-pro Plymouth Whalers. So we regularly meet them. Those kids are HUGE. I think the team average is around 6'3" but they're still in high school. And they insist on wearing skates so i feel even smaller. but they have zits and have to be nice to my kids and I don't......

[xoxoxoBruce]

Must be the nutrition, look at the high school football players these days, 6' and 240 lbs is a pipsqueak.

[Pico and ME]

Being short kept me from being average, which I liked.

[Sundae]

I was super-short all through school, compared to my classmates.
When I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up I alternatively answered "Taller" or "Fatter" (given that I was a skinny little thing).

I'm a hair over 5' 7", so I'm not TALL tall but I still love it.
Back when I had a social life I'd often wear stacked heels to make me even taller. But it was good to take them off and feel less conspicuous.
I'm happy with my height - maybe one or two inches more would be better, but I mustn't be greedy. I just love being able to reach things when little ladies can't, and being able to open windows and such.

The only slightly odd thing is that people are often surprised by my height - when I can reach something they can't they look at me with a slightly puzzled air and say, "I never noticed how tall you were..." Perhaps growing up short affected my mannerisms?

[glatt]

I'm fairly tall. 6'2". It's good to be tall in most everyday situations. But it's horrible in a few limited situations.


When we first bought our house, there were about half a dozen locations where I would hit my head. I learned where they are and am careful now. Average sized people think flying in coach sucks. They have no idea. Riding the metro, I have to duck under the hand hold bars so I don't bonk my head. Cars are smaller for me. I need to push my driver's seat all the way back, and it makes it hard for the kid sitting behind me. Any kind of amusement park ride that has the bar that comes down over your shoulders and holds you in will press against my shoulders and make by spine bend a little. Then doing the ride all bent over sideways puts painful forces on my spine. So I won't do those rides.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by glatt

Any kind of amusement park ride that has the bar that comes down over your shoulders and holds you in will press against my shoulders and make by spine bend a little. Then doing the ride all bent over sideways puts painful forces on my spine. So I won't do those rides.

Try doing the reverse - as a lightweight eleven year old I only just passed the height restrictions on my first trip to an amusement park. I blessed the over the head restraint because I was lifted out of my seat by the ride - and there was a fair amount of clearance between me and the seat. When I went on the Pirate Ship (lap restraint only) I was convinced I would fall out because my two sticklike legs were so far away from the bar!

Still, at that age the genuine fear of horrific injury just adds to the appeal

I like that I've experienced both ends of the spectrum.

[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

[xoxoxoBruce]

This is pretty much the range.

[morethanpretty]

I'm 5'2" and I'm actually one of the taller women in my family, both my mom and sis are shorter than me. The men are all short also, my brother is probably 5"6' or 5"7' and he's taller than my dad. Being short is just fine with me, cept when I go shopping for pants.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

Being short is just fine with me, cept when I go shopping for pants.

Don't worry, I'll lift you up to get them off the rack...

[wolf]

I am much too short for my weight.

[Trilby]

I'm 5'7

Older boy is 6'4 and younger boy is 6'6