"If I gain 5lbs I may need a different size of pants. 5lbs is so much to a person with no place to put it."
"A car’s sun visors serve no purpose to us."
"What it’s like to go to the grocery store and have the item you need be on the very top shelf. You have to either s#ck up your pride and social anxiety and ask for help or go home without it."
"If you walk normally I have to basically power walk. Even if you tell them, either they don’t seem to understand, can’t adapt on short notice or don’t care."
"Being used as an armrest is annoying, and not peak humor that some tall people think it is."
"We see up into your nostrils all the time."
"My space matters too. I also like to be comfortable. I don’t appreciate being squeezed into the smallest space all the time “because it’s easier”. I don’t want the shitty seat, bed, etc. every time we travel."
"That we are closer to your crotch and can attack anytime."
"We’re at backpack height & it’s going to hit us in the face if you’re not careful."
"That people won’t respect you as much as a tall person in a professional setting."
"How awesome it is to be able to pull the covers up to your chin without having your feet sticking out from under the duvet even when you’re lying stretched out on the bed."
"We don’t need to ever clean those top shelves you say are dirty. I don’t see them. Thus, they do not exist."
"How awful concerts can be when you can’t see the damn thing."
"Most short people can’t sit with their back against the back of a chair or sofa AND have their feet touch the floor. Without a pillow behind them it gets uncomfortable quickly. A lot of guys make fun of all the decorative pillows, but they also serve a function."
"I have rocked out calves because I go up on tip toes twenty times a day."
"How difficult it is to get clothes out the bottom of a top loading washer. I have repurposed some kitchen tongs to be used as laundry tongs."
"Always having to find the step stool that they’ve moved."
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- doors are 195cm on average, 10cm smaller than me
- in stores always being asked to get stuff from the top shelve
- straight to the back of the shoe-store for about 5 pairs of available fitting shoes
- buying the same jeans 10 years in a row because nothing else fits
- having to lie down in a car to see through the windshield
- small steps or skipping steps on the stairs
- always being watched on the dancefloor or any public place
- shirt-sizes account for width, not length
- headrests of chairs between your shoulder-blades
- legs always in an uncomfortable angle on a chair
- 'How tall are you?'
- 'Do you play basketball?'
- 'How is the weather up there?'
- 'I can't see anything!' behind you at every concert/movie
- 'You have to be smaller than this for this ride'
being over 2m