Are you happy with your height?

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How do height genes work anyway? My dad is about 181/2 I'd say and my mom is not really short and I turned out to be 180, but I've got relatives who are both shorter than my parents, the woman significantly so, and 3 out of their kids are taller than me to various degrees
 
SliceSabre said:
I'm 6'5" and I honestly couldn't be happier. I love being tall. However I sometimes forget how tall I am until I meet the rare person who is taller than me or someone points it out.
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That 1% of the time when someone is taller is such a crazy experience.
 
M.D said:
How do height genes work anyway? My dad is about 181/2 I'd say and my mom is not really short and I turned out to be 180, but I've got relatives who are both shorter than my parents, the woman significantly so, and 3 out of their kids are taller than me to various degrees
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Yeah it seems pretty weird, only long person in my family is my grandfather at 190+ but my father is like second longest with like 174/5

and then me at 184, which sticks out a fair bit.
 
My friend is 6'4" and he has had problems in the past with people wanting to start fights with him. I guess as a manliness thing and they want to fight a tall person for some reason. Anybody experienced that?
 
I'm about 5'8 so I'm average I guess for a guy but I wish I were taller a lot.
At least 6 foot tall would be grand , 6 foot 4 and I'd be in the d league / NBA ;)

but nah, i'm not happy with my height
 
I'm 6'4" and love it.
I'm taller than most people, but still fit under doorways and in small airplane seats.
Being around people taller than me is SUPER weird though. Thankfully, it's pretty rare.
 
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I'm a guy and I'm 5'3. Obviously pretty short for a guy. I never had a problem with it but it always seems like everyone around me does. Dating in high school was rough. Basically every girl I ever liked told me I was too small for them, even if they were shorter than me. Hit a nasty depression in my teen years.

When I got into college I stopped caring what people thought, gained a lot of confidence and told people who made random stupid comments to me to go fuck themselves. Now I'm married and have a son of my own (who will most likely be small like me).

At first I was worried about having kids because if I had a son I didn't want him to go through what I went through growing up. However, I just need to teach him to be confident in himself and don't let morons tear him down.

So yeah, being a small dude is rough. You basically have to constantly prove yourself and outdo the next guy because everyone tends to think you're weaker because of it.
 
perfectly fine being the average 5'11 man....like sure it'd be cool being a couple inches taller but it's not something I ever really think about.
 
supernormal said:
A lot of famous and successful people are a lot shorter than you OP. Plus any of the two extremes can be a curse. 5'11" - 6'2" I think is the perfect height for men. You're not short and you're not tall enough to draw attention to yourself. Plus you won't have trouble finding clothing that fits.

I'm 6ft and I've never heard anything but positive things about my height.
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It doesn't bother me on that level, in reality I know my height is just fine.

I think not being taller than my dad is actually bothering me more. Most people that I know are taller than their parents, it feels like I got screwed over lol
 
I'm at the upper end of short at 5'6". Not going to lie, I would love to to be at least a few inches taller or the dream which is 6 feet even. However, I try to own it and it doesn't really bother all that much.
 
M.D said:
How do height genes work anyway? My dad is about 181/2 I'd say and my mom is not really short and I turned out to be 180, but I've got relatives who are both shorter than my parents, the woman significantly so, and 3 out of their kids are taller than me to various degrees
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multiple genes in multiple genetic combinations is my one sentence answer.
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n11/full/ng.3097.html just to show how complicated it can be.
 
I'm 5'10, or technically 5'11 and 3/4 inches. About 143 pounds. I definitely wish I was taller, but its not going to happen at age 23.
 
5'3 and perfectly content. Can't really say my life has been affected at all by being on the shorter end of the spectrum. But I also have the benefit of being able to just put on heels if I ever feel the need to be taller.
 
6'2, 200lbs totally happy with that. It's a good height to be. People seem to see me as "tall" but I never get comments about basketball or weird comments like "you're tall."

My wife is 5'2, she wishes she was taller, but I always had a thing for short girls.
 
I'm 5"9. I'm okay with it. Could be worse, could be better.

I am nice and comfy on airplanes but can still reach things from most high shelves + a lot of girls are still shorter than me. Perfect, I think.
 
If I was a few inches taller I'd be the perfect specimen of human being. I still have about 2 years to potentially gain a couple inches if I'm lucky though.

Also fuck you to anyone above 5'10" complaining about being short.
 
I'm tall as a lady at 5'9 and yes it does suck to wear heels but I like being tall. Taller would be fine but never would want to be shorter than I am now.
 
SliceSabre said:
I'm 6'5" and I honestly couldn't be happier. I love being tall. However I sometimes forget how tall I am until I meet the rare person who is taller than me or someone points it out.
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Just about sums it up. I find it hard to find clothes that fit which is a bummer but the height advantages make up for it. I've only seen a few people who were definitively taller than me. One of them was a chinese security guard who easily cleared 7 feet. After walking around for 2 weeks in China and not seeing a single person bigger than me, having a security guard loom over me was a bit of a shock.
 
FaintDeftone said:
I'm a guy and I'm 5'3. Obviously pretty short for a guy. I never had a problem with it but it always seems like everyone around me does. Dating in high school was rough. Basically every girl I ever liked told me I was too small for them, even if they were shorter than me. Hit a nasty depression in my teen years.

When I got into college I stopped caring what people thought, gained a lot of confidence and told people who made random stupid comments to me to go fuck themselves. Now I'm married and have a son of my own (who will most likely be small like me).

At first I was worried about having kids because if I had a son I didn't want him to go through what I went through growing up. However, I just need to teach him to be confident in himself and don't let morons tear him down.

So yeah, being a small dude is rough. You basically have to constantly prove yourself and outdo the next guy because everyone tends to think you're weaker because of it.
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That's rough but unsurprising that people would pick on someone if they have a chance to.

I was styuding with a short guy about s year ago and he was more confident than I'll ever be. Never heard anyone mention anything about his height too.

He actually dated a girl I had a crush on back in highachool that was also styuding us.

Glad to hear you're fine now.
 
6ft and i would wouldn't mind being an inch or two taller. don't really think of my height all that much though.
 
Nope hate being short, but there isn't anything I can do about it. Wouldn't have been so bad if doctors hadn't told me I was going to be really tall because my hands and feet are so big. I'm 5'7 but wear a size 13 shoe. I'd prefer to be 5'10 or 5'11.
 
No. Tinder girls always asking blatantly how tall I am.

5'8"

It sucks because they can be shorter than me, and they STILL want someone like 6 foot.

I also have come to dislike my height in the work environment. I guess Im just conscious of it.
 
Granadier said:
That 1% of the time when someone is taller is such a crazy experience.
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6'4" here and it is so odd when someone's taller.
I can go months without seeing someone taller yet the wife and I went food shopping the other night and saw at least 4 people taller. Have I shrunk?
And yes OP I'm happy with my height.
 
I'm 6'1, which I consider about ideal. Tall, but not so tall that it becomes your defining feature in people's eyes.
 
I was completely fine with it until social media came along and I realized how disgusted some people are with people being average height.

| Praxis | said:
My friend is 6'4" and he has had problems in the past with people wanting to start fights with him. I guess as a manliness thing and they want to fight a tall person for some reason. Anybody experienced that?
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I've only seen tall people disrespecting short people in ways that they wouldn't with other tall people, including pushing them around. But sometimes that meant the short ones throwing the first punch, yeah.
 
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