Post by Luro2020 on Nov 24, 2017 21:43:33 GMT
So since I realized as a long time member I've never given my intro, I'm posting this to finally show what lead me to join the fight. When I was in middle school, I was in the 10th percentile, and I got called "little kid" and people would come up to me and say "you're small". I watched the height and dating segment, and I remember being devastated and not knowing what to make of it. I Asked someone how tall they were and they said "taller than you" but added no offense to "soften" the jab. soneone said I "needed to drink milk because I'm like the shortest kid in school. I also was called "invisible" and ignored a lot, but im sure that had nothing to do with height (/s). One guy said a tall girl was "out of my league" not mentioning height but it obviously was a big factor in his reasoning.Freshmen year of highschool I brought up height asking if I was short because I wasn't aware of how people would see me as insecure,and people would say I was short despite being average, but that's not as important. A girl told me someone called me short and I said "I don't care", which lead to her calling me cool because that made me one of the good ones probably. Senior year of high school, I was 5'8" and my 5'11" friend would relentlessly call me short, saying things like "why do you look so short today" "how do you reach things" and pass it off as "you're not that short I'm joking". He also would ask people if they thought I was short. I am now a sophomore in college, and the only experience I have had Was being called "little man", but I am very close to average as you know.People definitely saw me as short at 5'8", but here we know tall short guys face some of it too, but anyway those are my encounters.
