The average height varies between countries, but in the US, it's 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm) for men and 5 feet 3.5 inches (161 cm) for women.
If you're above or below these measurements, you might notice a few traits specific to your size. Interested in the latter group, one Reddit user made a post on the platform, asking people who consider themselves short to share the problems that they think taller folks will never truly understand.
From attending concerts to carrying backpacks, here are some of the things that they've mentioned.
#1
The overhead visor isn’t going to do anything against the sun.
115points
#2
We don't need to ever clean those top shelves you say are dirty. I don't see them. Thus, they do not exist.
109points
#3
It makes me feel unsafe if you talk about how easily you can pick me up and take me. Or how easily someone could overpower me. why would you tell me that when I'm already afraid of it happening.
108points
#4
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.
96points
#5
When you’re in a crowd of people, you can’t see a damn thing!
dogballet:
I'm 5ft tall and I have almost never enjoyed a live music event in my life.
93points
#6
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.
90points
#7
That people won't respect you as much as a tall person in a professional setting.
Prosperous_Petiole:
4'8 here. Customers at my work often think I'm the trainee. I'm the manager.
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88points
#8
If I gain 5lbs I may need a different size pants. 5lbs is so much to a person with no place to put it.
missdawn1970:
OMG, yes! I'm 5 feet tall, and gaining even 2 pounds makes my pants and skirts dig into my waist.
80points
#9
In crowds it can become difficult to breathe. Taller people can reach the fresh air, but I’m trapped under where everyone else is breathing out.
77points
#10
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 s****y seat, bed, etc. every time we travel.
Being told constantly that you just need to roll with whatever because your comfort matters least HONESTLY had an effect on me.
75points
#11
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.
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74points
#12
Y’all tall b**ches need to stop hovering over toilets and making them wet and gross. Short women cannot hover pee, and we should not have to. If no one hovered this would not be an issue.
73points
#13
Being used as an armrest is annoying, and not peak humor that some tall people think it is.
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70points
#14
People really do show preferential treatment to tall men and discriminate against short men.
69points
#15
That annoying, tip of the fingers making the thing turn around instead of being able to grab it off an upper shelf.
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69points
#16
I have rocked out calves because I go up on tiptoes twenty times a day.
66points
#17
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.
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66points
#18
**I'm still a m***********g adult.**
I am a 43-year-old adult who has been working in my career for **20 f*****g years.**
I am a grown-up. Just because I'm the height of the average 12-year-old and also have a baby face and also just happen to be traditionally attractive does not mean that I am not a *serious f*****g adult.* This has been my biggest pet peeve since I was in my 20s, where at my first job out of college everyone assumed I was not a college intern, but someone who somehow was in high school yet coming to an office job from 8 to 5 every day?!
Just because we're short doesn't mean we're actually children. For the love of God, I am begging all of you to please remember this whenever you deal with a professional adult who just doesn't happen to be as tall as most adults.
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62points
#19
Every time I go to see a movie or play, I hope that a kid is sitting in front of me, otherwise I can't see the stage/screen.
61points
#20
No chairs are made for me. At 5’3, my feet always dangle and worsen my sciatica. It feels dumb to feel like a toddler in every chair.
56points