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As a 5'6 person here and was still considered short even in my childhood and teen years, it really does get to you when there's such a double standards against short people. Where you're openly mocked for something you can't control and you're forced to be okay with it but make fun of someone over something controllable, like their weight, and all of a sudden you're the asshole. How I get called a midget when I'm not. I tried everything in the book to make myself taller like drinking milk, having my younger brother pull on my legs, using supplments that will supposedly "help" with growing, etc. My mom is 5'6, my dad is 5'10, my younger brother is 5'11, and finally my younger sister is 5'7. I always found it humiliating how everyone assumes my brother and sisters are older than me, where I don't want to take a picture next to my mom because I hate how we're on even grounds. It gets to you.

I felt like this from childhood through my early college years. How did I grow out of it though? Having a good mentor both my life and fitness coach that emphasized self improvement and noted that while I will have massive disadvantages because of my height. With his words, I instead of bitching and moaning about it I might as well improve on things that I can control like my body/health, aiming to graduate and get a good job, improve my social skills by forcing myself to be put in a uncomfortable social setting, etc. There's always something to improve upon and positive changes in my life didn't automatically start because of it, but eventually it did. I met my wife 3 years ago at a community service event at a local church near my apartment. If i still had the toxic mindset I used to have, I would never be in a position to start a friendship with her that naturally became a relationship to marriage.

Yeah I know this is a TMI, but it's something I am very passionate about when sharing. I'm hoping my life experience can at least attempt to be relatable in someway, even as small as possible. The last thing I want is for people to have a toxic view on life in general, I know I've been there and faced it before...and I fucking hated it. I'm the most happy in my life that I could be at the moment, espcially with my second child coming really soon.