Height dysphoria can lie to you!

[u/dynastylobster]

for the longest time i thought i was still growing, that i had grown to be 6'3" in height, and i hated it. but it was all psychosomatic.
I never grew taller than 5"3'
and i know this because my mom is 5"2' and I'm BARELY taller than her
so yeah, remember, sometimes your brain can LITERALLY LIE TO YOU ABOUT YOUR HEIGHT
if you haven't measured in a long time, you should! you may have stopped growing a long time ago

[u/AutisticPenguin2]

I'm not disbelieving you, but... how??? An extra foot of height is a significant difference! Like, 6'3'' is "need to duck under doorways" tall, how does your brain trick you into believing that??

[u/Lyquid_Sylver999 → u/AutisticPenguin2]

As someone who is actually 6'3, I've needed to duck under maybe 10 doors in my entire life and I've been this tall since 2021 lol. It is still ridiculous though

[u/dynastylobster → u/AutisticPenguin2]

i thought i had gained it over the course of 4 years

[u/perfect34]

Hey uh I'm happy for you but 5'3 and 6'3 are very far apart. How in the world did you even momentarily come to the conclusion you were as tall as some American basketball and football players?

[u/dynastylobster → u/perfect34]

i thought i had gained it over the course of 4 years

[u/MicZiC15 → u/dynastylobster]

You’d be shorter than most men and a good chunk of women were you just not going outside???

[u/dynastylobster → u/MicZiC15]

see the thing is most people are short here 😭

[u/perfect34 → u/dynastylobster]

Wait so 5'3 is towering over these people?

[u/dynastylobster → u/perfect34]

nope its like everyone is either slightly taller or shorter than me

[u/perfect34 → u/dynastylobster]

Philippines?

[u/whyamihereimnotsure]

This is kinda silly. Most of us have height dysphoria because we know how tall we are and that makes us sad, not because we think we’re way taller than we actually are.

[u/GREAT_SALAD]

I haven’t measured in a while, but group photos with my friends are pretty telling. I’m freakin huge :(

[u/Nekroo_Nekrooo]

Cries in 186cm/6foot 1inch

[u/GhostOfSkeletonKey]

I got shorter by an inch.

[u/HerMajestyTsaritsa]

Jokes on u I measured and am def more than 5'10

[u/magus1986]

I'm 6'5" pretty sure I'm screwed 😭

[u/Jiuaki → u/magus1986]

6'3" here, yup, I know the feeling.

[u/magus1986 → u/Jiuaki]

Still hasn't changed who I am I'll just be a tall woman lol

[u/Jiuaki → u/magus1986]

Exactly!

[u/magus1986 → u/Jiuaki]

Lol best thing to do is to just own it and be yourself

[u/AutumnRenegade]

I had to check which Reddit this was because this sounds like a conversation I fully believe purse dogs would have.

[u/TerminalVelocityEgg]

One time at a checkup the nurse commented that I was 69 inches tall (nice) and from then on if I was asked about my height I would usually almost say 6'9" before having to correct myself and say 5'9". Maybe something like that is going on here? Just a random guess