Am i doomed to this?

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One thing that makes me angry is feeling short.

Am I doomed to a life of losing my temper over these types of things because of the way my brain is wired.

I wouldn't call it "doomed" per se... But technically, yes you are. I think you can probably learn how to handle it better and deal with it until it's not so rage-inducing. At my worst I became furious and threw a knife at a toaster because the toast didn't come up enough. I've since learned to internalize it and learned calming methods so I don't even feel such a strong reaction anymore.

So its not something that I will just forget about as I get older?

How can I learn too handle it better?

I can't really say, you might. If you really want to, I think that helps, but everyone is different so I can't say definitively.

If feeling short makes you angry, couldn't you learn to tolerate the feeling better? Kind of the way you work on a phobia. Like, you start out with stuff like looking at a picture of you next to a tall person, and wait until you feel okay with that, and then work up to the situations that make you feel the shortest, at each step never causing more than very mild discomfort for yourself, so you gradually get used to it.

I used that for a phobia when I was in my teenage years; it worked pretty well. Don't see why it shouldn't work for you.