r/short

I'm a guy and 5'2. I was born 6 weeks prematurely, and 5 pounds. When I was a baby, I was so small, I didn't even register on the height chart, and a Cabbage Patch Kid wore my shirts. I also had breathing problems and pneumonia and had to be in the NICU. My mom is 5'5, my dad is 5'8, my maternal grandfather was 5'11, my uncle and paternal grandfather are 5'8, and my maternal uncles were 5'11-6'0. My mom's cousins are 5'10-6'0 (one of them is a woman) and my girl cousin (my dad's sister's daughter) is 5'6. My sister was full-term, though, and she's 5'1.

How tall would I be if I were full-term?

I have been dating a taller woman for a few months and it has sucked completely.

Not because she is taller but because she and her friends are so shallow.

Yesterday I found out how she described me to several of her friends, she said I was two heads shorter, that when she met me she thought " omg he is very short" and that my car wasn't good enough, that I don't make enough money and I'm not what she's looking for in a man. Anyways she felt the need to continue dating me for months talking about meeting her parents and all that....

Also found out her friends refer to me as " hobbit ".

I'm 5'6.

I've just survived this shit. I regret it deeply. I had a very bad time last night and took too many sleeping pills. Took 4 quetiapine pills to hope I was asleep forever. It turned out to be far from the OD dose.

I'm deeply disturbed by what I did. I can't believe I could do that to my family. Can anyone relate? Please help.

All my friends in my friendgroup are taller and I'm the oldest in it

I've always been shorter in school, am i short? or am i just gonna be a late bloomer?

I feel like i cant be masculine bc my gf is taller than me and she cant like lean on my shoulder or anything. short guys how do you do it

mi papa mide 1,81 cm y mi mama 1,60. Yo 1,72. Cuando veo gente con padres de la misma altura siempre son mas altos que yo, por lo que lo siento que mereceria ser mas alto

I’m curious to know

I'm a 5'4" guy, and I'm curious about what people genuinely think. Has your height affected your dating, career, confidence, or social life? If you're around this height, what has your experience been like? And if you're taller or shorter, what's your honest opinion? Please be respectful—I'm looking for real experiences, not just motivational answers.

i'm a girl and i would wear shoes over heels anyday but they don't give me the height boost that heels have🙁.

Any recommendations for shoes for a height boost?

tengo 19 hombre Hay margen todavia? tuve la pubertad tarde, igualmente yo creo que ya no voy a crecer mas, pero escucho que dicen que hasta los 21 sigue, es verdad?

Hi. Im 5 6 and I have a gf ( around 5 ft 5) who i love very much. i do sometimes get made fun at for being short by other ppl but not very often and when i do i js play it off by saying smth. now she says she doesnt care about my height and shes perfectly happy with it, but when we're outside i can see they way she looks at the 6ft+ guys. one time she literally went up to one of our friends (hes 6 2) and looked up at him with those puppy eyes and said "wow ur so tall" and i js stood there and watched like a baboon. once she sent me a instagram screenshot of some tall guy and said woah hes so tall, why cant u be tall like him. now my biggest fear is that she'll leave me for literally any tall guy she gets a chance with. she denies her caring abt me being short but deep down i think we both know that she cares very much. does anyone else experience smth similar or similar feeling, if so how are you dealing with it?

For context i see people on the internet saying anything under 6ft is short, for example I live in one of the tallest countries in the world and im 176cm barefoot, and I feel pretty average in height and occasionally tall, so then it got me thinking at what height are you short?

People who are on here saying "how am I short?" when they post their parents' height and their mother be any from 4'8-5'...... That is why! Unless your father was 7 ft tall. Don't be surprised that you're going to be short..... Hell even if your father is 7 ft tall don't be surprised that you're short , when your mother is the height of an Olympic level gymnast.

There are going to be short people in the world and don't be surprised if you're one of them, it's okay. There's nothing wrong with it, people are going to be assholes about your height just like their assholes about my skin color both are genetic.

I can understand if your parents are both average height or both tall and you are wondering where your shortness came from; but if you have one short parent (in some cases, these people have two short parents) and wondering why you are not tall, your answer is because you have a short parent.

Get over it and get a stool! I'm 5'4"-5'5" my dad is 5'8 and mom is 5'2.....yes I'm not surprised and never was that I'm short

I'm 5'8 and have never really identified myself as being short. I've dated girls my height, taller than me, and shorter than me, it's never been an issue in my life. For all you dudes that are saying you can't date do you think it's your height or do you think it's maybe just your self-esteem because you're focusing so much on your height?

(На русском: Привет всем я тут первый день поэтому я хочу послушать мнение насчёт: Нормально в 17 лет быть ростом в 160см?)

I am 167, 25M. avg where i live is 173-175. i have been longing to undergo limb lengthening since last 4-5 yrs. i have the budget, accept the risk but...if i choose to have limb lengthening i will have to resign my high paying job(SWE in faang) & my career disruption will be visible for the next 3-4 yrs(experience stalled, reputation not accumulated, promotion gone etc).

WTF am I supposed to do now. I feel like cheated by my genetics, every young male in my bloodline is taller than me. 😭

I am 19 years old and was 5'8 last year (172-175cm, perhaps due to my posture+morning height I easily fluctuate an inch). Yes I'm not exactly "short" especially since I'm from India and from one of the taller parts in the country(South Delhi), I'm bang on average for my age here but since it's a very diverse city I often feel short and tall simultaneously lol, that's not what I have any complaints about.

Now the caveat is that I'm 48KG and pretty much had my height and health potential nuked. I straight up caught immune system diseases and allergies from when I was like 1 years old. I also grew up on a typical Indian diet without much protein and as you guessed by my weight, I've probably been calorie maintenance mode if not deficient most of my life (started fixing it this year).

My father is 5'8 and mother is 5'3 so I'm basically the same height as my father.

Now the reason I'm whining about being short or rather the moment I got conscious about my height? Well I have male first cousins. But it's not just because they're my cousins, it's because I most certainly had similar if not greater height potential than most of them yet the environmental factors growing up destroyed it all.

My oldest cousin is 24 and 5'10. Not exactly tall but his father/my uncle is just 5'5 while his mother/my aunt is just 5'2. Similarly another older cousin is 22 years old, 6 feet and his father is 5'9 and mother 5'1.

Now the craziest of all my youngest cousin who's just 13 and entering puberty is already 5'10. The crazy part? His father is the shortest of all my uncles at just 5'3 while his mother is like 5'5. He's probably gonna end up the tallest and at least 6'2. Also somehow he's also just 45kg also on the shitty Indian diet(drinks more milk than I ever did though) so it's a wonder how he's growing at such a crazy rate, definitely hit the genetic lottery.

Obviously since we're first cousins we share similar genetics from the paternal side and I know all the families of all my aunts and all of them have normal height genetics for both the men and women so it's not some hidden boost from the mother's side in any of their cases.

Regardless, it's not exactly that I'm jealous of my cousins it's more the "what if" that kills me. All my male cousins are easily 5 inches+ taller than their fathers yet I'm the same height as mine. I also had an x-ray done of my wrists and my plates are nearly fused so I don't have any false hope of late growth either.

I think the worst part for me probably is that I'm the same height as my father while all my cousins are way taller than theirs. Even if I was the shortest cousin, if I was at least visibly comfortably taller than my father I probably wouldn't be so conscious about it.

That's the end of probably the stupidest vent you've ever read. Thanks for reading