I hate that I tried to overcompensate for my height by putting on a very fierce exterior when I was young (little man syndrome?). When I was bullied at school, it finally stopped when one day I made a bully, who was a whole head taller than me, run to the boys toilets crying. From then on, in school at least, I gained a bit of a reputation and people started being nicer to me, so I continued to put on the fierce and feisty facade(previously I was a total nerd.)
I do feel that this shaped my life and if I was confident enough just to be myself when I was younger things would have been a lot different, but there’s no point in dwelling on the past and all I can do now is be as “me” as I can....