Being short is not fun. At 5'3", I come across all sorts of difficulties daily because of my height. I am one of the shortest out of my friends. My friends who are taller have no idea what kind of things we short people have to go through. I was originally going to write a list where I would put the advantage and disadvantage of being short but I could only come up with one advantage and that was fitting through small spaces. Not very impressive. So I thought I should share with others the major struggles we have to deal with.

• Being used as an arm rest

• Not being able to reach the top shelf
• Walking with someone with long legs is always like a marathon

• Not having your feet touch the ground whenever you sit in a chair

• Always having to look up at people who are taller than you and feeling like a child

• Taking pictures with your friends

• The difficulties of finding clothing that actually fits

• Having to use some sort of step stool to reach anything high up

• Sometimes having to stand on your tip toes

• Wondering what it would be like if you were just a little bit taller

• Your dreams of becoming a model are shattered

• Everyone thinking that you’re weak

• Being picked up when you don’t want to be

• Not even reaching the deep end of the pool yet and the water is already up to your nose
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• Having to adjust the car seat so that you can reach the pedals and see over the dash board

• Having the seat belt practically saw into your neck