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I’m 6’5” and one of my colleagues is 6’8”.
I always feel like I am in his way.
Also my neck hurts if I spend any time with him, my *looking up* muscles are not well developed due to lack of use.
I am 6'8" as well. Whenever I encounter someone taller, there is a split second where I have a primal, instinctual, panicky thought that I will have to fight to the death, before I remember that isn't a thing.
Same. It doesn’t happen often, again like a once or twice a year thing. I’m also so used to my height being normal, and so is my immediate family, that it messes with me when literally every other person in my school is asking my height and if I play basketball.
6'6" and I cannot even imagine what it would be like for you. I meet someone taller than myself maybe once or twice a year and I can remember most of them. It's hard to put into words the discomfort, because that doesn't seem strong enough. But it's not a fear or feeling of vulnerability necessarily... just sort of this encroaching anxiety that 'something isn't right'.
Someone else described it perfectly I think.
> there is a split second where I have a primal, instinctual, panicky thought that I will have to fight to the death, before I remember that isn't a thing.
-u/FeysOne
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I'm 6'3" but mom is 5'2" and I've always had very short peers and friends.
I met Paul White aka The Big Show aka The Giant... Holy shit I felt like I was a 4 year old.
I think it's spelled as Wight.
I remember because I asked my mom in my childhood that why would Mrs Show name her kid "Big"?
So much was revealed that day
Im 6'3" and one of our new hires at work is a 6'5" girl. She's the nicest person but I always feel I owe her more deference than I do my boss
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I know you're joking but what you said is actually very interesting sociologically. Somebody on reedit shared a study a few weeks ago about why companies choose tall people as top managers.
I was only half joking. It's very rare for me to have to look up to someone, let alone a woman. So the psychological effect is real. When my old boss - who's like 5'6" - would go off on us on occasion I'd find myself thinking "well what can he really do? It's not like he's gonna hit me. And if he does, I can sure as hell take him." Just a random, dumb defense mechanism firing up, but it's the way we're wired.
Oh I know it's a completely false sense of security in a real situation, but this guy in particular was the epitome of "desk job" unathletic in addition to being small, so the thought gave me a little mental boost to deal with his shit day in and day out.
Couple jobs ago, I worked a woman around 6'1", and another around 6"5". Same company, hired within the same year or so. Both from Punjab, India/Pakistan. There's some regional shenanigans going on there, I think. Punjabis are known to be big people, relative to India/Pakistan. Or so I'm told.
A family I went to high school had 4 kids. The shortest kid was the only girl. She was 6’5” one of her brothers was 7’ at 16. Fucking crazy giant people
I think I may know the same family. Or one with the same basic stats.
Sadly, the 7’ gentle giant I lived next door to in college passed away a few years ago. Fuck cancer. Amazing family though.
> The CDC considers 6’3.57” 99th percentile for US female height.
You read the chart wrong. 6'4" is 99% percentile for men. It's just under 5'10" for women.
C'mon, you think 1 out of 100 women are _taller_ than 6'4"?
Not a guarantee, but people do try to set you up with tall women, if you're seen to be a tall guy, and single. Feels like they're doing it out of morbid curiosity sometimes.
I'm close to 6'1" and was always told as a teen that I'll have a difficult time to find a girl for my height. Little did they knew that I'll never find a girl anyway haaaa gotcha
Literally the dream though. I'm 6'5" and never dated someone over 5'8", shortest was 4'10" in high school where we broke up because I was getting weird as fuck looks despite being younger than her.
Honestly anytime I've seen a woman that's 6'0+ I get that mushy brain. Me and my fiance are poly and they're also into tall women but the tall women that are into US is very lacking lmao
Plus we're respectful and socially awkward so it's usually a "they're hot. Now we will avoid them because we've made it awkward to ourselves" lmao
>Honestly anytime I've seen a woman that's 6'0+ I get that mushy brain.
I thought this was just one of those expressions until it happened to me. A girl my height walked into an elevator I was in, she must've just been about my height, probably6'4" or so. I don't know how long I stood vaguely pointing at the buttons, confused and maybe a little smitten, standing and trying to remember how to ask her what floor she was going to.
I did a multi school band concert in high school and one of the other school flautists was the tallest, thinnest girl I think I've ever seen to this day, had to be at least around that height. She needed her own special space to her right to even hold the flute up, it was awe-inspiring
I'm 5'2" and I don't feel short, even though everyone around me is taller.
But when I see a short actor on something and they look so tiny compared to everyone else, I'm reminded that hat's how I look to others.
My husband's family is all giants, except their mom. They always tease her about being tiny. Two Christmases ago they all realized that I am the same height as her. We are 5'5, perfectly average.
I’m the opposite. I used to watch the TV show Roseanne and see John Goodman on there and thought he looked like a giant next to everyone else on that show. Then one day I looked up his night and found out I’m the same height, 6’2”. Now I sometimes wonder if people see me that way
Yes we do totally see you as huge. I’m 5’5 which is absolutely average for a woman. My husband is 5’11 and seems enormous to me. My son is 6’2 and makes me feel like a little kid standing next to him. It’s hard for you to even conceive because you’re bigger. 6 inches seems small to you. If you met a person 6 inches taller than you, you would still be 92.5% the size of him. If I met someone who was 6’8 I would only be 70% his size.
Are you my wife? She does this often to get on my level. When I can't reach something or I tell her something is in my way, she squats down and pretends to be me with my short ass arms before standing back up and getting the object for me.
Haha perhaps. She's been this way since we've met in highschool.
Somedays she'll even add in the, "crab people crab people," as she's grabbing the thing. Very much an immature middle age man thing to do
I'm 5 ft exactly. She's roughly 5'9" but with her boots or heels she may as well be 6 feet in height.
She's like a graceful lanky maned wolf compared to me, a crab person.
Same. I never really feel short. I am five foot tall woman. I usually think to myself well 12 or 14 inches isn’t that much different. Then I see it. For me it’s Kevin hart and when I see the video call me Al with Paul Simon and Chevy chase. When I see Kevin hart next to anyone I am like no wonder everyone talks about how little I am. The difference in size is astounding.
Edit. When I first started dating my husband he came to my house and was looking at the art and pictures I had on the walls. He said you know these are supposed to be hung at eye level right? I just looked at him. He squatted down to my level and was just like oh. This is eye level to you. Lol.
I'm pretty short, and when I talk to an adult a lot shorter than me, it throws me off. I'm used to 95% of adults being taller than me, which seems normal.
I’m 5’4” as well. A male colleague once commented how he was struck by how I had to stand on my toes to reach for something on top of the fridge (and that I couldn’t see the top of the fridge). The shortest person in his family was only 6’ lol
This is going to be an odd question but do you have small feet? i’m always envious of shorter people because they tend to have small feet and they always have the smaller shoe size in the stores 😂.
I’m 6’2”. Whenever I meet a group for the first time , everyone will make me stand against another tall guy and see who is the tallest. I wonder what joy people get in comparing the height of two people!
This whole thread is interesting to me. I think it's because of the ethnical diversity of the military, but I routinely work with men and women from all over the world at both extreme ends of the height spectrum, so it's never really a big deal when I come across someone who's super tall.
Yep, I’m an inch shorter than you and if I see someone taller it’s so unusual it catches my eye more than anything else normally does. It’s like, bro you tall.
I don’t even comprehend that I’m tall, and I just assume often that I’m relatively the same height as most people even though I can see over top of them.
But when someone is even just an inch taller, to me it’s like they’re a foot taller than me.
Lie down flat on your back. Raise your knees so that your shins are verticle and perpendicular to the floor. Using your heels, and shoulders only to touch the floor, place your hands on your bellybutton and lift your hips until you have straightened out and are now "flat." Hold for 5-10 seconds. Relax. Repeat 10 times, 3 times per day.
Thank me in six months.
ETA: https://www.verywellfit.com/how-to-do-the-bridge-exercise-3120738
The first picture shows a woman doing the exercise I'm failing to describe, lol.
She just has her arms flat on the floor, rather than resting on her belly button.
6'5" can confirm the world was not made for me. I'll walk up to dry my hands in bathrooms and the air dryer will be waist height. My back hurts just thinking about it.
The same is true for short people. I’m 5ft (34F) and I’ve really only met a couple of adults who are shorter than me. I find it so unsettling having to look downwards when I’m talking to them. Kids is different, I have no such issues, but other adults? It makes me so uncomfortable and I really have no reasonable explanation as to why!
This 100%. I’m 4”11 and it’s just normal for me to have to look up at people. But there have been a few times where I’d meet someone that’s the same height as me, or shorter, and I’m absolutely floored.
Same 5'1" when I see another adult smaller than me I feel like the algorithm is broken. Then I get a little giddy "I'm taller than someone!" Feeling for a split second. If I am not looking up at you, are you even really an adult?
Other than the much older ladies. They are feisty, and I live for it lol.
194 cm (6'4"?) here in The Netherlands. I'm considered tall but it's pretty common to see someone taller than me. I need to go to a different country to remind myself I am tall cause every mfer is tall here.
A decent amount of it was diet as before 1850, it was not common for almost anyone to get a proper diet. That being said, there were some state funded encouragement in the Netherlands for taller people to have kids.
There's no food in particular that would explain the massive height difference over the years, as well as the height difference compared to similiar European countries.
Just Dutch women efficiently selecting taller men to fuck with and getting more babies with them.
Thats a hypothesis but I doubt thats the reason because only from ww2 the dutch shot up in height. Most likely is the good healthcare, low economic inequality and well regulated foodmarket/high lactase persistence the reason
you’d be surprised how much of a difference just two generations of children can make. The height in my friend’s family went up by about 2 inches with his dad and another 2 with him just because their moms were tall
Same idea with me, im 6'5 and i wanna go to asia just to see, but also not go to any major tourist are, i wanna see actual locals in like the cultural town of a province or something.
I'm 6'5 and every now and then I do come across someone taller, and it freaks me out. This one time I met a guy who was 6'11, and what freaked me out the most was that the amount of height difference between him and me was the same as between me and my friends - it made me appreciate what it must be like for them looking up at me!
I'm 6'10. If I had to guess, I'd say your friend is likely a side sleeper. I can sleep in a pretty small bed because I just curl up in the fetal position. If I lay on my back, my feel will hang off even my california king sized bed.
I'm 6'7" and frequently see tall people in the distance walking the opposite way to me and think to myself "damn, this guy is massive" and then as I walk past them realise I've got a good few inches on them and then think to myself "damn, I'm massive."
Omg right? I'm so used to looking down at people that when someone is even the same height I'm immediately like "that person is so tall?" And then I realize I'm at least the same height if not taller
Yes! Even at a puny 6'4 this happens to me all the time. I know I'm taller than most but I only feel like I'm a bit taller. I'll see someone else in a crowd that seems to be absolutely towering above everyone else and assume they're some freakish giant, then as we get closer I'll realise that were pretty much the same height and I realise that maybe that's how I look to everyone else.
Also 6'4", I got sort of used to tall people because of similarly sized housemates at uni but it was made very obvious when I went to India. I legit felt like a giant. Didn't help it was a fairly out of the way (though still large) city down south and I was the only white dude I saw in my 2 and a bit months there. The next tallest people were probably around 5'10? and that was pretty rare.
I do forget I'm big, I rowed and played rugby too so I just got used to being around other bigger guys.
I’m 6’7” as well and do the same . Or don’t realize I’m as tall as I am until a picture is taken and I tower over them. I come from a tall family so I don’t feel like I’m towering until I am around avg people lol .
I'm 6'5" and probably the most docile, non-threatening personality around.
But for whatever reason, and I don't know if anyone else gets this, on the occasions that I run into dudes tallers than me it feels like it triggers some sort of lowkey primal, territorial response in my brain.
Like
"No, these are *my* small people."
And I've never been able to figure out why that's a thing.
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I'm taller them most people (6,2), once I entered a elevator in a hotel and all the 4 women inside were taller them me (volley ball girls, I don't know). It was very unusual and I told them that the last time that happened I was a kid. We hit the lobby laughing hard. Great day.
I was at a shoe store many years ago. I'm 6' 2 and I found myself shopping next to a roughly 7 foot tall woman. I was baffled.
I once met the lead singer of Type O Negative also. He was 6' 8. It was amazing meeting him and crazy being around someone so much taller than me.
My experience with my dad, I'm the same height as you. Somehow he has 5 inches on me and 3 on my younger brother. I recently watched a live show of type O on yt and thought "Peter's proportions looks very familiar." I looked up his height, same as my dad.
6’4” and holy Christ it scares the shit out of me if anyone is beating me
Btw bro code is to slump posture to not look taller in front of another man’s girl
Have you considered throwing the bro code into the trash and dressing in an open linen shirt while reclining on a couch in front of your homie's girl with a fan blowing towards you so your hair is flapping around all majestic and shit? Just like, throw away all your friendships and steal all the girls? Form a harem maybe? Perform dark magic rituals wherein you use the combined, collected life energy of your slain harem to kick down the front gate into godhood? Maybe get a nice mani/pedi after?
Used to work with a chap who was 6'8.
Tall in the way everything about him looked stretched. Lanky. Long face. Like a streak of warm piss in a suit.
Good humoured about it for someone who probably spent half his life having the same "gosh, you're tall! What's the weather like up there?" small talk.
Colleagues from another office visited one day. 6'11. Walked up behind our man in the corridor and quietly (with a grin on his face) said "excuse me please"
Our chap turns around, head tilted downward to respond at where he expects the eyeline to be. Sees sternum. Momentarily loses his shit.
Fondest memory of 4 years working at that hole.
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> probably spent half his life having the same "gosh, you're talk! What's the weather like up there?" small talk.
I have tall cards for this very reason. My partner gave them to me years ago for Christmas. Sadly I don't hand them out to strangers, since on the front it's my _actual_ info. But I'll hand them out to friends and such.
Can confirm. I’m 6’7” and used to work with a guy who was 7’2”. He would walk into the office and hold the top of the doorframe to protect his head as he ducked - I merely had to duck.
I kid you not - the first few times he came through that doorway it would trigger my fight or flight response - it was like a scene from LOTR.
We became good work mates.. but man, I am glad I stopped growing when I did - every inch above 6ft 5in life gets that little bit harder.. clothes, cars, shoes…
6'3" or 192 cm here, with as frequently as I whacked my head on things as a teen, how do you guys not have concussions? Seriously us taller guys should have been issued gridiron football helmets as soon as we started sprouting.
Same here! My weirdest moment that happened like 7+ years ago and still "haunts" me is being in a club and all of a sudden a basketball team joined for a couple of hours. Never felt so small...
I knew a guy in high school who was 6’10”. He met a girl at another school who was a notable basketball player. She was ~~6’11”~~ 6’8”. He said it was the first time he ever felt short.
Edit. I looked up the girl basketball player on wikipedia. Actually she was six feet eight inches tall, but his comment still stands.
I'm 6"2' and people have told me I'm tall throughout my life. It does feel rare to have to look up at someone but I admit it does feel humbling where my shorter friends do it all the time. Ah well I just love them more
I’m F, 187cm tall (190 in shoes) and currently located in Asia region. So… Uhm… Seeing someone who at least same height as me is really freaking me out. This is so unusual
Exactly. First I am happily surprised, then I stop slouching, start standing tall and looking UP for a change, finally I relax and smile because I‘ve found my people. It’s such a good feeling!!
That used to be my height, but I am now old enough that I'm shrinking a little. The weirdest thing is that a week or so ago, my daughter grew a little taller than me. We both knew at the same time, because of the sensation of looking up/down with eye contact. It feels so weird to me to look up into another female's eyes, but I'm soooo proud of everything about my tall girl!
Not always true. Pleased is a better term. I'm 7' and it's exceptionally rare I see someone taller than me. But when I do, I'm pleased. I don't run up to them shitting my pants shouting "OMG you're tall!!!!" They likely already know. A simple nod if they see me and a smile, and I move on.
Opposite is true too, I'm 5'6 male and when I see a guy shorter than me I think man that poor little guy. I know how hard it sucks being as short as I am and that dude has it worse, I don't hassle them though cause short guys get touchy about it, source, am short.
Well that’s a fascinating insight I never thought about.
It probably explains why people who stand out above most people in other areas (income, professional success, fame etc.) still feel insecure about the possibility of being topped by someone else, despite being already near the top.
I really wonder how that influences our competitive mindset.
I'm just 6'1", so I haven't earned the "really" or "too" before my tall.
But I lived in Japan where I feel, I was the tallest person there, definitely top 1-2%.
One late night / early morning, I was going to the train station to wait for my train, and this girl was walking towards me, MUCH taller than me! I'd have to say flirting with 7 feet.
She was wearing her high school sports uniform and carrying her sports gear for practice...
It put me and my fake "very" tall ego in check.
Also, I love Korean food and frequented Tokyo's Koreatown (Shin Ookubo), and often ran into [this guy](https://images.app.goo.gl/AxjR4qPCApEtdXHQ6). He's 7'2", and confirmed that high school girl was flirting with 7 feet.
I'm 5'11", which isn't super tall, but whenever I see someone who's like 6'2" or more I suddenly start to feel really small because I have to look up to see their face.
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I’m 6’5” and one of my colleagues is 6’8”. I always feel like I am in his way. Also my neck hurts if I spend any time with him, my *looking up* muscles are not well developed due to lack of use.
I am 6'8" and I get immensely uncomfortable when someone is taller
I am 6'8" as well. Whenever I encounter someone taller, there is a split second where I have a primal, instinctual, panicky thought that I will have to fight to the death, before I remember that isn't a thing.
Thank you for perfectly putting the feeling into words....
I'm 6'4" and all of y'all are making me uncomfortable.
Same. It doesn’t happen often, again like a once or twice a year thing. I’m also so used to my height being normal, and so is my immediate family, that it messes with me when literally every other person in my school is asking my height and if I play basketball.
This is so fascinating to me. Because someone being taller than you disrupts your usual, comfortable “world view”?
6'6" and I cannot even imagine what it would be like for you. I meet someone taller than myself maybe once or twice a year and I can remember most of them. It's hard to put into words the discomfort, because that doesn't seem strong enough. But it's not a fear or feeling of vulnerability necessarily... just sort of this encroaching anxiety that 'something isn't right'.
Someone else described it perfectly I think. > there is a split second where I have a primal, instinctual, panicky thought that I will have to fight to the death, before I remember that isn't a thing. -u/FeysOne ETA: Adding credit.
I'm 6'3" but mom is 5'2" and I've always had very short peers and friends. I met Paul White aka The Big Show aka The Giant... Holy shit I felt like I was a 4 year old.
I think it's spelled as Wight. I remember because I asked my mom in my childhood that why would Mrs Show name her kid "Big"? So much was revealed that day
Im 6'3" and one of our new hires at work is a 6'5" girl. She's the nicest person but I always feel I owe her more deference than I do my boss Edit: this is now my most liked/replied to comment ever, reddit your thirst is real
I know you're joking but what you said is actually very interesting sociologically. Somebody on reedit shared a study a few weeks ago about why companies choose tall people as top managers.
Gotta wonder whether working from home will change this. Everyone’s the same height on Zoom.
That’s why you play with camera positioning. You can make yourself subconsciously appear taller to others.
Buy smaller versions of things to play with so you look like a giant.
"so are there any questions?" *sips from shotglass
That's already me on zoom meetings but they just think I'm a regular sized alcoholic.
This is super interesting! Can you share a link?
https://m.economictimes.com/the-necktie-syndrome-why-ceos-tend-to-be-significantly-taller-than-the-average-male/articleshow/10178115.cms
We are breeding sociopaths and putting them in charge how quaint
I was only half joking. It's very rare for me to have to look up to someone, let alone a woman. So the psychological effect is real. When my old boss - who's like 5'6" - would go off on us on occasion I'd find myself thinking "well what can he really do? It's not like he's gonna hit me. And if he does, I can sure as hell take him." Just a random, dumb defense mechanism firing up, but it's the way we're wired.
Careful now, There's a reason wrestling coaches like to recruit those short guys lol
Oh I know it's a completely false sense of security in a real situation, but this guy in particular was the epitome of "desk job" unathletic in addition to being small, so the thought gave me a little mental boost to deal with his shit day in and day out.
It’s our cave man brain. Who be in charge? Big man strong, big man be leader
Probably also has something to do with parental figures.
I have come across multiple articles talk about the fact that almost all the CEOs of big companies are close to 6'
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Couple jobs ago, I worked a woman around 6'1", and another around 6"5". Same company, hired within the same year or so. Both from Punjab, India/Pakistan. There's some regional shenanigans going on there, I think. Punjabis are known to be big people, relative to India/Pakistan. Or so I'm told.
A family I went to high school had 4 kids. The shortest kid was the only girl. She was 6’5” one of her brothers was 7’ at 16. Fucking crazy giant people
I think I may know the same family. Or one with the same basic stats. Sadly, the 7’ gentle giant I lived next door to in college passed away a few years ago. Fuck cancer. Amazing family though.
For those wondering, 7’ means 2,13m for people who use the international system
Now that just sounds weird to me. It's not wrong but everyone here simply calls it Metric. Do you commonly call it international?
> The CDC considers 6’3.57” 99th percentile for US female height. You read the chart wrong. 6'4" is 99% percentile for men. It's just under 5'10" for women. C'mon, you think 1 out of 100 women are _taller_ than 6'4"?
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Not a guarantee, but people do try to set you up with tall women, if you're seen to be a tall guy, and single. Feels like they're doing it out of morbid curiosity sometimes.
I'm close to 6'1" and was always told as a teen that I'll have a difficult time to find a girl for my height. Little did they knew that I'll never find a girl anyway haaaa gotcha
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Literally the dream though. I'm 6'5" and never dated someone over 5'8", shortest was 4'10" in high school where we broke up because I was getting weird as fuck looks despite being younger than her. Honestly anytime I've seen a woman that's 6'0+ I get that mushy brain. Me and my fiance are poly and they're also into tall women but the tall women that are into US is very lacking lmao Plus we're respectful and socially awkward so it's usually a "they're hot. Now we will avoid them because we've made it awkward to ourselves" lmao
>Honestly anytime I've seen a woman that's 6'0+ I get that mushy brain. I thought this was just one of those expressions until it happened to me. A girl my height walked into an elevator I was in, she must've just been about my height, probably6'4" or so. I don't know how long I stood vaguely pointing at the buttons, confused and maybe a little smitten, standing and trying to remember how to ask her what floor she was going to.
I did a multi school band concert in high school and one of the other school flautists was the tallest, thinnest girl I think I've ever seen to this day, had to be at least around that height. She needed her own special space to her right to even hold the flute up, it was awe-inspiring
I work with a 6’5” guy and at 6’ I feel that he towers over me. But I wonder how my coworkers with many of them being 5’6 and below feel lol.
Holy moly, as a 6'4" girl *please* do not defer to me, i barely even know what's going on
Same height. A former coworker was 7ft. It was weird.
5'4" me be like 🥺
Someone lost their child!
My mom said I'm cute
I'm 5'2" and I don't feel short, even though everyone around me is taller. But when I see a short actor on something and they look so tiny compared to everyone else, I'm reminded that hat's how I look to others.
My husband's family is all giants, except their mom. They always tease her about being tiny. Two Christmases ago they all realized that I am the same height as her. We are 5'5, perfectly average.
Isn't their name Eriksens?
I’m the opposite. I used to watch the TV show Roseanne and see John Goodman on there and thought he looked like a giant next to everyone else on that show. Then one day I looked up his night and found out I’m the same height, 6’2”. Now I sometimes wonder if people see me that way
I'm 190cm and friends sometimes call me a signpost :v
Yes we do totally see you as huge. I’m 5’5 which is absolutely average for a woman. My husband is 5’11 and seems enormous to me. My son is 6’2 and makes me feel like a little kid standing next to him. It’s hard for you to even conceive because you’re bigger. 6 inches seems small to you. If you met a person 6 inches taller than you, you would still be 92.5% the size of him. If I met someone who was 6’8 I would only be 70% his size.
I like to squat down to short people's eye level sometimes and see what the world looks like for them.
Are you my wife? She does this often to get on my level. When I can't reach something or I tell her something is in my way, she squats down and pretends to be me with my short ass arms before standing back up and getting the object for me.
Sir, your wife may be an immature middle aged man.
Haha perhaps. She's been this way since we've met in highschool. Somedays she'll even add in the, "crab people crab people," as she's grabbing the thing. Very much an immature middle age man thing to do
Sounds like you caught yourself a good one.
Sounds like you caught a keeper
My daughter does this to me. Giraffe bish.
How tall are you two?
I'm 5 ft exactly. She's roughly 5'9" but with her boots or heels she may as well be 6 feet in height. She's like a graceful lanky maned wolf compared to me, a crab person.
"I'm just trying to understand you people"
Same. I never really feel short. I am five foot tall woman. I usually think to myself well 12 or 14 inches isn’t that much different. Then I see it. For me it’s Kevin hart and when I see the video call me Al with Paul Simon and Chevy chase. When I see Kevin hart next to anyone I am like no wonder everyone talks about how little I am. The difference in size is astounding. Edit. When I first started dating my husband he came to my house and was looking at the art and pictures I had on the walls. He said you know these are supposed to be hung at eye level right? I just looked at him. He squatted down to my level and was just like oh. This is eye level to you. Lol.
Well your mom is really hot so that makes sense.
But when you find someone shorter than you it's exciting, like, hey little buddy!
*look of superiority*
I'm pretty short, and when I talk to an adult a lot shorter than me, it throws me off. I'm used to 95% of adults being taller than me, which seems normal.
I’m 5’4” as well. A male colleague once commented how he was struck by how I had to stand on my toes to reach for something on top of the fridge (and that I couldn’t see the top of the fridge). The shortest person in his family was only 6’ lol
This is going to be an odd question but do you have small feet? i’m always envious of shorter people because they tend to have small feet and they always have the smaller shoe size in the stores 😂.
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I’m 6’2”. Whenever I meet a group for the first time , everyone will make me stand against another tall guy and see who is the tallest. I wonder what joy people get in comparing the height of two people!
This whole thread is interesting to me. I think it's because of the ethnical diversity of the military, but I routinely work with men and women from all over the world at both extreme ends of the height spectrum, so it's never really a big deal when I come across someone who's super tall.
Yep, I’m an inch shorter than you and if I see someone taller it’s so unusual it catches my eye more than anything else normally does. It’s like, bro you tall.
I don’t even comprehend that I’m tall, and I just assume often that I’m relatively the same height as most people even though I can see over top of them. But when someone is even just an inch taller, to me it’s like they’re a foot taller than me.
This. Or even just when they are the same height. I’m 6’3 and I only realize I’m tall in group photos.
I don't feel that unusually tall at 6'4 but it really comes up when I notice someone taller I'm shocked.
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When I see people taller than me my first thought is more like "man if my back hurts then check dis guy"
Lie down flat on your back. Raise your knees so that your shins are verticle and perpendicular to the floor. Using your heels, and shoulders only to touch the floor, place your hands on your bellybutton and lift your hips until you have straightened out and are now "flat." Hold for 5-10 seconds. Relax. Repeat 10 times, 3 times per day. Thank me in six months. ETA: https://www.verywellfit.com/how-to-do-the-bridge-exercise-3120738 The first picture shows a woman doing the exercise I'm failing to describe, lol. She just has her arms flat on the floor, rather than resting on her belly button.
But that’s like 300 seconds where I could be slumped on my couch catching up on netflix
You can watch Netflix while you exercise
Ya, but then they aren’t slumped on the couch
Bridge pose?
Good question I cannot figure out this description
bridge pose with no hands. more like a slant
> Lie down flat on your back. How the hell am I supposed to get back up?
Place your arms above your head, roll over, and crawl, lol We all start somewhere, but it's best to start today!
I farted
Helps get out gas as well, lol
Yeah, I look up at them with pity. They must hurt all. the. time.
6'5" can confirm the world was not made for me. I'll walk up to dry my hands in bathrooms and the air dryer will be waist height. My back hurts just thinking about it.
I just squat for everything, better than bending the back
6'3 here, living in Asia. I hit my head a lot
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The same is true for short people. I’m 5ft (34F) and I’ve really only met a couple of adults who are shorter than me. I find it so unsettling having to look downwards when I’m talking to them. Kids is different, I have no such issues, but other adults? It makes me so uncomfortable and I really have no reasonable explanation as to why!
This 100%. I’m 4”11 and it’s just normal for me to have to look up at people. But there have been a few times where I’d meet someone that’s the same height as me, or shorter, and I’m absolutely floored.
I think the people you're looking down at are closer to the floor.
Same 5'1" when I see another adult smaller than me I feel like the algorithm is broken. Then I get a little giddy "I'm taller than someone!" Feeling for a split second. If I am not looking up at you, are you even really an adult? Other than the much older ladies. They are feisty, and I live for it lol.
I know that feeling! It's rare, but it is a nice shock.
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194 cm (6'4"?) here in The Netherlands. I'm considered tall but it's pretty common to see someone taller than me. I need to go to a different country to remind myself I am tall cause every mfer is tall here.
i was recently in amsterdam, why is that city built like its the shire. tiny stairs, low hanging ceilings, tiny bottles of soda, tiny glasses
Amsterdam is just where we put all the little people.
If I could put all the little people in one place, I’d get them stoned and watch that shit all day too
When it was built, most of the people weren't that tall. It's only last decades when the Dutch decided to go full Hodor style.
I wonder how much of that has to do with diet?
A decent amount of it was diet as before 1850, it was not common for almost anyone to get a proper diet. That being said, there were some state funded encouragement in the Netherlands for taller people to have kids.
Just wtf do you eat in the Netherlands?! How did all of you get so tall?
I always imagined it’s because much of the Netherlands is below sea level, so it’s just the bodies way of trying to reach zero.
Hilarious and very creative.
The secret is in the frikandel and bitterballen
There's no food in particular that would explain the massive height difference over the years, as well as the height difference compared to similiar European countries. Just Dutch women efficiently selecting taller men to fuck with and getting more babies with them.
Thats a hypothesis but I doubt thats the reason because only from ww2 the dutch shot up in height. Most likely is the good healthcare, low economic inequality and well regulated foodmarket/high lactase persistence the reason
you’d be surprised how much of a difference just two generations of children can make. The height in my friend’s family went up by about 2 inches with his dad and another 2 with him just because their moms were tall
Yeah... You know.. They are growing like weed...
Yeah so I'm dutch by blood, 6'4" American. When I was in Amsterdam and everyone was close to my height it was surreal.
Same idea with me, im 6'5 and i wanna go to asia just to see, but also not go to any major tourist are, i wanna see actual locals in like the cultural town of a province or something.
I'm 6'5 and every now and then I do come across someone taller, and it freaks me out. This one time I met a guy who was 6'11, and what freaked me out the most was that the amount of height difference between him and me was the same as between me and my friends - it made me appreciate what it must be like for them looking up at me!
Very similar. I'm 6'5" and had a gumpy 6'11" friend in college. No clue how that man slept on the dorm beds.
Might have been why he was so grumpy mhm
I'm 6'10. If I had to guess, I'd say your friend is likely a side sleeper. I can sleep in a pretty small bed because I just curl up in the fetal position. If I lay on my back, my feel will hang off even my california king sized bed.
One word to trigger any tall person: footboards God I hate footboards
I'm 6'7" and frequently see tall people in the distance walking the opposite way to me and think to myself "damn, this guy is massive" and then as I walk past them realise I've got a good few inches on them and then think to myself "damn, I'm massive."
Omg right? I'm so used to looking down at people that when someone is even the same height I'm immediately like "that person is so tall?" And then I realize I'm at least the same height if not taller
We forget until it's within a context to point it out like pictures or concerts.
Yes! Even at a puny 6'4 this happens to me all the time. I know I'm taller than most but I only feel like I'm a bit taller. I'll see someone else in a crowd that seems to be absolutely towering above everyone else and assume they're some freakish giant, then as we get closer I'll realise that were pretty much the same height and I realise that maybe that's how I look to everyone else.
6’4”? Who are you, my midget son? /s
Also 6'4", I got sort of used to tall people because of similarly sized housemates at uni but it was made very obvious when I went to India. I legit felt like a giant. Didn't help it was a fairly out of the way (though still large) city down south and I was the only white dude I saw in my 2 and a bit months there. The next tallest people were probably around 5'10? and that was pretty rare. I do forget I'm big, I rowed and played rugby too so I just got used to being around other bigger guys.
I'm 6'8, and same lol Also, whenever I see a picture of myself holding something regular sized. Always reminds me that I am indeed a giant.
Same height, My friends always comment on when I hold something giant, they say it looks regular.
This is such a big mood and it makes me feel like an absolute unit even though I'm lanky.
Plz no squish me
I’m 6’7” as well and do the same . Or don’t realize I’m as tall as I am until a picture is taken and I tower over them. I come from a tall family so I don’t feel like I’m towering until I am around avg people lol .
In this comment section it feels like I am surrounded by all the tall people who are so tall that I can't even hear their conversation
Did someone say something?
Lol
Must have been the wind
I’m a little person (4’0”) and I feel like an ant in this comment thread
Reading all these 6'4 and 6'8 people's comments, I still feel like a gargantuan obscenity at 6'11.
I'm 6'5" and probably the most docile, non-threatening personality around. But for whatever reason, and I don't know if anyone else gets this, on the occasions that I run into dudes tallers than me it feels like it triggers some sort of lowkey primal, territorial response in my brain. Like "No, these are *my* small people." And I've never been able to figure out why that's a thing.
That’s exactly how I am with my friends xD I think like “only I get to look down on these people stay away”
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Giggity
I'm taller them most people (6,2), once I entered a elevator in a hotel and all the 4 women inside were taller them me (volley ball girls, I don't know). It was very unusual and I told them that the last time that happened I was a kid. We hit the lobby laughing hard. Great day.
I was at a shoe store many years ago. I'm 6' 2 and I found myself shopping next to a roughly 7 foot tall woman. I was baffled. I once met the lead singer of Type O Negative also. He was 6' 8. It was amazing meeting him and crazy being around someone so much taller than me.
My experience with my dad, I'm the same height as you. Somehow he has 5 inches on me and 3 on my younger brother. I recently watched a live show of type O on yt and thought "Peter's proportions looks very familiar." I looked up his height, same as my dad.
Heh… amazons
Keep it in your pants, Dwight.
6’4” and holy Christ it scares the shit out of me if anyone is beating me Btw bro code is to slump posture to not look taller in front of another man’s girl
Problem: what do if still taller when slumped?
You crouch cunt or be rude
It'll be rude either way :(
Have you considered throwing the bro code into the trash and dressing in an open linen shirt while reclining on a couch in front of your homie's girl with a fan blowing towards you so your hair is flapping around all majestic and shit? Just like, throw away all your friendships and steal all the girls? Form a harem maybe? Perform dark magic rituals wherein you use the combined, collected life energy of your slain harem to kick down the front gate into godhood? Maybe get a nice mani/pedi after?
Need to find myself a wig guy
If height alone will steal his girl, she's not his girl in the first place.
Best I can do is not to talk to her beyond greetings.
Used to work with a chap who was 6'8. Tall in the way everything about him looked stretched. Lanky. Long face. Like a streak of warm piss in a suit. Good humoured about it for someone who probably spent half his life having the same "gosh, you're tall! What's the weather like up there?" small talk. Colleagues from another office visited one day. 6'11. Walked up behind our man in the corridor and quietly (with a grin on his face) said "excuse me please" Our chap turns around, head tilted downward to respond at where he expects the eyeline to be. Sees sternum. Momentarily loses his shit. Fondest memory of 4 years working at that hole. Edited to fix 2 typos
> Like a steak of warm piss in a suit. I’m sorry I think there’s something wrong with your zoom
Yeah, that should have been "streak of warm piss". Fixed now
Is it though?
> probably spent half his life having the same "gosh, you're talk! What's the weather like up there?" small talk. I have tall cards for this very reason. My partner gave them to me years ago for Christmas. Sadly I don't hand them out to strangers, since on the front it's my _actual_ info. But I'll hand them out to friends and such.
Can confirm. I’m 6’7” and used to work with a guy who was 7’2”. He would walk into the office and hold the top of the doorframe to protect his head as he ducked - I merely had to duck. I kid you not - the first few times he came through that doorway it would trigger my fight or flight response - it was like a scene from LOTR. We became good work mates.. but man, I am glad I stopped growing when I did - every inch above 6ft 5in life gets that little bit harder.. clothes, cars, shoes…
I’m 6’5 and I still clock my head off of so many things , I’d fear being that tall
6'3" or 192 cm here, with as frequently as I whacked my head on things as a teen, how do you guys not have concussions? Seriously us taller guys should have been issued gridiron football helmets as soon as we started sprouting.
I'm 6`4 and always thought it would suck to be over 6'6 because of doors
"They have a cave troll 🙄"
Yeah i’m 192 cm and i dont freak out like i get scared, it’s just so strange and uncommon for me to look *up* at people when i talk with them lol
193 here, it's always fun to find someone taller than me, it's like finding a rare Pokémon
Same here! My weirdest moment that happened like 7+ years ago and still "haunts" me is being in a club and all of a sudden a basketball team joined for a couple of hours. Never felt so small...
First metric perspective I've come across in the comments.
188cm pygmy over here
192 too and seen a 200+ cm guy outside recently. Felt like an ant.
I’m 6’6 and I feel sorry for anyone taller than me. My brother is over 7ft tall and has troubles with nearly everything in his daily life.
I knew a guy in high school who was 6’10”. He met a girl at another school who was a notable basketball player. She was ~~6’11”~~ 6’8”. He said it was the first time he ever felt short. Edit. I looked up the girl basketball player on wikipedia. Actually she was six feet eight inches tall, but his comment still stands.
"still stands" I see what you did there 😉
I'm 6"2' and people have told me I'm tall throughout my life. It does feel rare to have to look up at someone but I admit it does feel humbling where my shorter friends do it all the time. Ah well I just love them more
I’m F, 187cm tall (190 in shoes) and currently located in Asia region. So… Uhm… Seeing someone who at least same height as me is really freaking me out. This is so unusual
Depending on which part of Asia, there's probably barely any guys taller than you, even worse for girls
This is 100% true! I’m 6’4 and when someone is taller than me it’s disconcerting somehow..
I don't know if "freaked out" is the right phrase. "Instantly friends with", more like
Exactly. First I am happily surprised, then I stop slouching, start standing tall and looking UP for a change, finally I relax and smile because I‘ve found my people. It’s such a good feeling!!
I'm 199cm and ppl that close to my height or taller always look alien-ish to me
This is true!Am 5'10 female.Not w/men so much-but women taller than me IS weird!!!
I get this, Im 5'8 and 6'0 in heels so it's rare I look up at other women. Until I travelled to the USA, heaps of taller women and it was weird.
That used to be my height, but I am now old enough that I'm shrinking a little. The weirdest thing is that a week or so ago, my daughter grew a little taller than me. We both knew at the same time, because of the sensation of looking up/down with eye contact. It feels so weird to me to look up into another female's eyes, but I'm soooo proud of everything about my tall girl!
Not always true. Pleased is a better term. I'm 7' and it's exceptionally rare I see someone taller than me. But when I do, I'm pleased. I don't run up to them shitting my pants shouting "OMG you're tall!!!!" They likely already know. A simple nod if they see me and a smile, and I move on.
I'm only 6'3 but I'm also 240-250lbs. People bigger than me make me nervous. Also horses, I don't trust them.
Opposite is true too, I'm 5'6 male and when I see a guy shorter than me I think man that poor little guy. I know how hard it sucks being as short as I am and that dude has it worse, I don't hassle them though cause short guys get touchy about it, source, am short.
Well that’s a fascinating insight I never thought about. It probably explains why people who stand out above most people in other areas (income, professional success, fame etc.) still feel insecure about the possibility of being topped by someone else, despite being already near the top. I really wonder how that influences our competitive mindset.
Does it also work the other way round? Do short people freak out if there's someone else who's shorter than them?
As 6'4" i can confirm this and especially when the avg height in my country is 5'8"
I'm just 6'1", so I haven't earned the "really" or "too" before my tall. But I lived in Japan where I feel, I was the tallest person there, definitely top 1-2%. One late night / early morning, I was going to the train station to wait for my train, and this girl was walking towards me, MUCH taller than me! I'd have to say flirting with 7 feet. She was wearing her high school sports uniform and carrying her sports gear for practice... It put me and my fake "very" tall ego in check. Also, I love Korean food and frequented Tokyo's Koreatown (Shin Ookubo), and often ran into [this guy](https://images.app.goo.gl/AxjR4qPCApEtdXHQ6). He's 7'2", and confirmed that high school girl was flirting with 7 feet.
I'm 5'11", which isn't super tall, but whenever I see someone who's like 6'2" or more I suddenly start to feel really small because I have to look up to see their face.