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[Medium Drink Of Water]

When I was two years old.  Doubling a 2 year old's height gets you very close to the final adult height.  When my 6'1 father heard I was going to be 5'7 he said "that's too short!"

Luckily I didn't know or care about stuff like that at the time.  My height didn't really start to affect me until middle school (age 13) when almost all of my classmates were taller than me.  I remember almost getting into a fight with another small kid, and one of the "cool" (i.e. tall) kids sarcastically said "this is going to be a real clash of the titans."

[KrP1]

at age of 6/7 , in my school class of more than 20 mans there was only one kid shorter than me, so kids like to tell me that im short or Dwarf

[KiloKAHN]

I always felt normal as a really young kid because my parents put me in sports programs with kids that were a year older than me after my dad forged a birth certificate to pretend I was older (thought it would be good to toughen me up). So when I was 6 and getting crap from the older kids in pop warner football, I just figured it was because I was younger and the quips about being the smallest weren't because of my height but my age. I only really got crap for it to the point I noticed starting fifth grade when my jerk teacher would include height jokes while he made fun of me for other things. Got revenge though when my mom called him up and scared the bejeezus out of him while cussing him out.

[Cyber]

At age 15.5 years old shortly after beginning High School.

[ewt]

weirdly enough, it's when i'm 16, in high school, at that time i realize i want to become taller so bad i drank 1 big carton of milk everyday, too bad i only going from 166cm to 171cm, it's quite big difference, but it's because i got my puberty late at that time, it's not like 178cm or something

[IamAndrew]

I became consciously aware of my height in the 2nd grade. For kindergarten and 1st grade I was one of the tallest kids. Then hitting 2nd grade some friends grew more than me and I was standing 1 step lower than them on the bleachers for class pictures (anyone remember that? Similar to what RisingShorty said) when I use to be standing in the back with my fat friend and best friend (one was really named Bubba and the other Michael - you can guess which one was the fatty. Damn I loved being a kid with a stable life for two years). By 3rd grade I was about average height (and girls were as tall as boys).

Then came the moves. I moved homes literally a dozen times from then until now (military parents). I moved about 1x a year and did about 2 diff schools per year (always testing out into gifted programs and moving schools). Because of this, I never got to play sports or be an active, social boy. I think this greatly contributed to my below average stature. I have the upper body of a 6' person yet the height of a 5'7-8" person. If that 2-year-old height x2 thing = adult height is true, then I should have been at least 5'11" if I weren't stunted. P.S. if you are contemplating a military career, try not to move so much if you have children. It REALLY effs them up in the head (and physically). People come here for being born short, but knowing you were emotionally, socially, and physically stunted due to some BS like that is really, really hard to deal with. I know I'm fortunate to be 172 cm tho, compared to others here.

But height hasn't started bothering me, to the extent of contemplating surgery, until about a year ago when I was 23 and now every time I go out. Living in the South (U.S.), I notice all the guys are a minimum of 5'11" and I'm just a little taller than the girls. It also hits me hard whenever I come across articles bashing people like Tom Cruise (always about his height or religion) or the president of France - and then I think...wow, I'm as tall as these guys and they are being tormented like this? Will this happen to me if I ever got media attention? Can I even become a president or CEO? Do I really have to be 2x better at something than someone who's 6' just to get a corporate position?

I would like CLL surgery, but fortunately I have a lot of redeemable qualities and it's not so painful being a tad bit short until then (if ever).

[IwannaBeTaller]

I became consciously aware of my height in the 2nd grade. For kindergarten and 1st grade I was one of the tallest kids. Then hitting 2nd grade some friends grew more than me and I was standing 1 step lower than them on the bleachers for class pictures (anyone remember that? Similar to what RisingShorty said) when I use to be standing in the back with my fat friend and best friend (one was really named Bubba and the other Michael - you can guess which one was the fatty. Damn I loved being a kid with a stable life for two years). By 3rd grade I was about average height (and girls were as tall as boys).

Then came the moves. I moved homes literally a dozen times from then until now (military parents). I moved about 1x a year and did about 2 diff schools per year (always testing out into gifted programs and moving schools). Because of this, I never got to play sports or be an active, social boy. I think this greatly contributed to my below average stature. I have the upper body of a 6' person yet the height of a 5'7-8" person. If that 2-year-old height x2 thing = adult height is true, then I should have been at least 5'11" if I weren't stunted. P.S. if you are contemplating a military career, try not to move so much if you have children. It REALLY effs them up in the head (and physically). People come here for being born short, but knowing you were emotionally, socially, and physically stunted due to some BS like that is really, really hard to deal with. I know I'm fortunate to be 172 cm tho, compared to others here.

But height hasn't started bothering me, to the extent of contemplating surgery, until about a year ago when I was 23 and now every time I go out. Living in the South (U.S.), I notice all the guys are a minimum of 5'11" and I'm just a little taller than the girls. It also hits me hard whenever I come across articles bashing people like Tom Cruise (always about his height or religion) or the president of France - and then I think...wow, I'm as tall as these guys and they are being tormented like this? Will this happen to me if I ever got media attention? Can I even become a president or CEO? Do I really have to be 2x better at something than someone who's 6' just to get a corporate position?

I would like CLL surgery, but fortunately I have a lot of redeemable qualities and it's not so painful being a tad bit short until then (if ever).

That emotional stress and not playing sports might have had a little effect on your growth, but don't put too much on it. Remember most of your height (on average 80% I think) is still genetic and you'll never truly know what height you would've reached otherwise, so there's really no purpose to ponder about it (I know that's hard 'cause I too think alot about whether I stunted my growth). And when it comes to growth stunting, I think nutrition and sleep play a much larger role than physical activity and your emotional state, I've never heard that emotional state has a big effect. Best friend of mine never did sports, he gets exhausted even when playing darts, and didn't have an easy childhood either, and he still turned out 6'7''+. So as I said, you'll never know what would've happened if things went different.

[Tylerdurden389]

Heightism has affected me my entire life. I can remember being friends with a kid in my class who was probably close to a foot taller than me even though we were the same age. My parents always did their best to instill confidence in me, and I guess during my early years everything was fine. I always got teased and bullied (though thankfully never hit or beat up, as this was catholic school and the nuns were very strict), but I never associated it with my size. As far as when I first began being sad about my size and correlating it to the bullying, I remember it clearly.

4th grade. 9 years old. Our teacher asked us to weigh ourselves everyday for a week and write it down, along with what we ate everyday. She drew a chart on oak tag and placed it on the wall. We all had to write our weights down on the chart and make line graphs to show how much we weighed. I guess actually seeing and hearing the numbers of how much everyone weighed compared to my weight was really crushing. The biggest boy in the class weighed close to 100 pounds (again, 9 years old), with the average boys weighing in the 70s and 80's. Even the girls averaged around in the 60s, with maybe the skinniest being in the high 50's. That and the fact that the chart the teacher drew went from 50 pounds to 100 pounds.

I weighed only 43 pounds.

Unless I buried the memory of standing in front of the class, I have absolutely no memory of completing this assignment or the humiliation I probably would've recieved.

After that, I noticed that the teasing bothered me a lot more than it did when I was younger. More-so cuz now I felt like I had a reason to pin it on. I also noticed that whatever grade I was in, was the weight I was. 5th grade, 50 something pounds. 6th grade, 60 something, and so on. Finally at the end of 8th grade, a month or 2 before graduation (and a month before turning 14 years old), at 88 pounds and completely self conscious of my bony body that I had always had (imagine being both short AND skinny) I decided to start working out. In 1 year I gained nearly 40 pounds and I haven't really stopped since.

[Blackhawk]

Yeah it sucks being the smallest in the class.  I always was.  I remember I was about 80 pounds in the seventh grade.  It sucked!  Good thing for LL!

[G-Man]

Wow! Didn't know that people would be such a-holes towards guys with a lower height than theirs, especially not teachers!  In what country does that happen? Here in Quebec I've never heard of comments like this thru primary, high school or at the University.  People are of different heights and that's normal so no one makes a big deal out of it.

[Morgenst.]

Personally it didn't truly hit me until I was about 16 I'm pretty confident guy on the verge of arrogant but around 16 I don't know was like a boom hit me like a punch to the face that I'd always be 5'4 looking up at my friends my co workers girls I liked but could never be with because I refuse to be with a chick taller than me( when you think about it it really fking restricts you man). Think until then in my head I had always thought I was still gonna grow to be 5'6 at least hell my fathers 5'10 the bastard so yeah that's when I got real depressed whenever I looked up at people. And idk if anyone else like me's got a young face but I'm not the most muscular dude  on the lean side with a young face gets pretty fking tired of being thought of as a 15yr old cause of all that and my height

[wants2growtaller]

Heightism didnt start affecting me until 2011. It happen whhile I was working for this company. I was very good at my job..and exceeded expectations of my collagues. Long story short.. I was the ONLY person that got laid off despite my performance. And the only difference was tha I was shorter than anyone else. Im not giving so much detail. But it is when I realize how much height and appearance matters. And I googled height discrimination and discovered the term heightism.