Do you think you're intimidating?

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well ima 5 ft 2 105 pound white guy.

I don't think I intimidate anyone on the basketball court.

*I* don't think I'm intimidating, but apparently, others do...

I'm about a foot taller than you, and I'm a girl. Would you find me intimidating, if you met me?
I'm serious.

well you're 30 years older than me so that would be weird...

I wasn't looking for a date, toots. Jeez!

You must admit you sound intriguing, though...

Eh? Erm...*I* don't think I sound intriguing... I'm lost, sorry..?

Well, you only mentioned your height, which may leave others wondering what else would there be to make you appear intimidating...

Isn't being a 6'1" girl enough?

If not, then I truly have no idea (which is essentially why I posted that)...

Hmmm... that's like 1.85m, somewhat taller than myself (1.78m), but I have several cousins and friends who are taller than that (from 1.88m upwards). So, I'd say "no"... unless where you happen to live people are all shorter than you. Or your height is complemented by a body built like a gorilla's... *that* would be intimidating.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with the receptionist of the place where I worked twelve years ago, she was 1.75m tall and said she was too tall and men found her intimidating for that, I told her I was taller than her and I didn't consider msyelf tall, only of average height, but she said it was different with women... I guess women are raised to think like that.

And this last point also somewhat reminds me of this girl (longer ago) who said she wouldn't go to her prom with a certain guy if she looked taller in heels next to him... hmmm...

I'm surrounded by ickle folks, dude!

NO insult intended to the diminutive in stature, here, by the way, but I've been made to feel like a freak by short folks all my frakkin' life. It's just never stopped! Not a day goes by without someone commenting on my height when I'm out in public - doesn't matter where it is. I've even had little kids comment out loud in grocery stores - "Look, Mommy, that girl's sooo tallll!! !" Horrified mom shushes yelling child, but it's too late, and she knows it...

And that type of remark is the kindest of the bunch. I was suicidal in high school because of the daily torment and bullying I endured because of my height (and, I suspect, because of what's now known to be AS). I was variously TOLD by my classmates that I was a freak of nature, that I was ugly, that I was a monster/zombie/etc., that I'd never have a date, that the only guy who'd ever even consider asking me out would be the center for the Lakers - if I was lucky. I wanted to die because of it. I'd have succeeded, if not for my mom.

Having dealt with this for 40 years, I can tell you with absolute conviction that it's gotten really, REALLY old. Seriously, it's like I'm some sort of sideshow attraction. It's never changed. And it hurts even more when it's guys doing the mocking/shunning.

That's partially why I've been dying to relocate to Scandinavia/the Netherlands since I was a teen. At least over there, I'd be "normal."


Gorilla proportions? Newp. Go check out my recently-posted phoaties in the "Post a Picture of the Real You" thread...

I just looked at your pictures. (you're looking better than my former classmates, BTW) What's wrong with some people?!

Yes, you should probably move to somewhere else whey they don't label you as a freak, if you don't have any ties left that bind you to that place... but where do you live? Maybe you can move to somewhere closer to your home than Scandinavia...

The rotten old US of A - you know, the land of the greed and the home of the slaves? I think I'd have had a happier childhood here, had I been born/raised in a place like Minnesota, which was settled largely by Scandinavian immigrants - but I wouldn't want to live there. I hail from New England, which is chock-full of the vertically challenged...

Thank you for the compliment. I've been having a pretty crappy evening, and that raised my spirits a bit.

Well, sweet dreams now.

(and I thought everyone in orther countries was taller... go figure)

You could have been born in the south.. where it seems every other person is vertically challenged and the foot they're lacking in height they pack in padding around the mid section..

I want to move to a place where "Dunlap disease" is not something people feel entitles them to ride the electric scooters at walmart!

I'm 5"11 and I feel small compared to people here. ok but then I'm skinny too.