Quote from: Femboy on September 05, 2010, 05:40:26 PM
Id give anything for at least 4 inches.

Anything?

No really, don't do that. Your face will mature on T. It would be very hard to find someone who looks like a boy with a beard, that's very unlikely phenomenon. In the way that it's unlikely to find a woman with a large chest and skinny body otherwise.

Being taller doesn't necessarily make you look older.  I'm 5'9", and people regularly guess that im 18-20, when I'm actually 26.  There's plenty of 14-15 year old guys who are taller than me, so height doesnt really help me much.

Quote from: Nygeel on September 06, 2010, 01:07:29 AM
I was recently introduced to a tumblr blog called "->-bleeped-<- Yeah Short Guys." So far it's been pictures of actors, singers, and athletes who are all under 5 foot 6.
http://->-bleeped-<-yeahshortguys.tumblr.com/

Prince is guessed to be about 5 foot. I sometimes go on that site and think "wow...masculine guys around my height that do awesome stuff do exist." Me...I'm 5 foot 2. All of my brothers and sisters are 2-13 inches taller than me, and some of them aren't finished growing.

Ha that's awesome! Someone needs to put Frank Iero on there http://mcrfan.co.uk/images/band/frank.jpg (guitarist in MCR ... 5'4" tops)

5'2" here ... usually if I stand up straight and have shoes on I can get to 5'3" though, so I usually just run with that (aren't guys famous for "adding a couple inches" anyway? hahaha)

And there are some badass dudes that are short ... Danzig for one. heh On that same type of vibe I found this: http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/1225/13576/Top-10-Shortest-Guys-In-Metal.html#axzz0ymgZQLSO

To me, a lot of it doesn't have to do with attitude. Personally when someone says attitude and short guys I think of guys our size who are trying to compensate too hard (like they have giant raised trucks and big speakers lol). That kind of attitude is just whack. It's the "chip on the shoulder" type of attitude and to me, that makes me view you as more of just a general prick than someone who's short but confident!

So to me, confidence is way more important. I definitely do not look my age. 10+ years younger in fact. There's times I wish I was taller, but my dad is 5'5" and my mom is 5' and it's very rare in my family for any guy to even reach average (5'9") so I was pretty much screwed on the height thing as well.

When I'm out in public though, I notice there's a lot of guys who are short. It's less rare than people would think in my opinion. Yeah a ton of guys make it 5'9 or over but a lot don't.

You just have to get past the self-hate thing and turn that energy into confidence. If you are going to be taking T and getting the facial hair thing that will for sure help too.

Personally I never had a problem with looking younger than I was. The older I get the happier I am when I get carded somewhere lol. Seriously, we're all gonna look fabulous when everyone else looks like a dried prune

Yeah I'm 5'1"..sometimes it really bothers me, but not so much at the moment. I do look younger, people read me at about 19-21 but I'm actually 27. Sometimes I don't want to give away stuff that indicates me age because people think I look too young to remember certain things.

Oh yeah, I go to therapy near a middle school and when I leave they're all finishing school.  One time these two girls giggled and said hi to me as I walked past...kinda weird. And another time one of the boys fist bumped me. Weird!

T does amazing things though. I can't wait.  And since I'm short I'm always hardout on the lookout for other short guys and there are heaps. And they look like men, not kids.

To be honest up front, I didn't read more than even 3 responses. I myself have a height issue, I hate my height. It is really one of the only things about my body that makes me uncomfortable. I have days that I call "tiny man" days. These are days filled with issues of being annoyed and angry about things like my height. It only happens once or twice a month, but they put me in a hell of a bad (and/or whinny) mood.

I wear cowboy boots most of the time, helps add a couple of inches and I plan to get some lifts. In fact the pair we were all pointed to early on in the thread is exactly what I've been looking at but I'm waiting another month so I can just purchase some other items all at the same time.

I HATE being short. I'm about 5'5 without my boots and even with my boots guys who do know I'm trans have had strange talks with me about how I'm so "petite" Yet women never seem to notice. Does that seem common to anyone else? Like girls never notice or don't comment on my size, in fact when I come out as trans they are always shocked. Guys pick up on it easier although the ones who realize I'm trans tend to be more open minded guys who actually have GLBT friends, other men just assume I'm young.

I should add too, one of the few things that annoys me about my partner is that she is tall. At least for someone born physically male she is actually short, maybe around 5'9 or so. However nothing is more annoying than having to ask your girlfriend to get something off the top shelf for you

Quote from: Silver on September 06, 2010, 03:18:11 PM
Anything?

Oh my peppers I think you've officially made me a little more thankful, haha... I'm a short guy too, around 5'1" or 5'2" on a good day, but I'm Asian so everyone says that is to be expected.  (Certainly did not help that my love was a good 6' flat... bio female, too.) A lot of my dysphoria has to do with my height, so I'll echo what most other guys have already said.

Here's a little something to amuse y'all though: While I was in Japan with my family, we went to visit an amusement park. When we finally got up to the front of the line to get some wrist bands, we had to correct the woman because she was going to put the "adult" one on my 13-year-old sister, and the "child" one on 17-year-old me.  Sadly, that was not the only time people have been confused... They kept thinking we were lying. .__.

I'm joining the club :/ I hate being short but lately I've been trying to make myself feel better by noticing all the guys just as short. And yea I think confidence is a big factor (not to be confused with doucheyness) sometimes it overpasses the height issue. I guess it helps that my gf is slighty shorter anyways and she doesn't care about height.

And to get off topic, cowboi what kinda dog do you have?

Hey I went out with a tall girl.  She was like 5'11" and we looked ridiculous walking down the street together.  But good god, in other ways it was totally hot.

I have a total boner for tall girls tho..I kinda like being towered over.

Quote from: James42 on September 06, 2010, 07:41:30 PM
I'm joining the club :/ I hate being short but lately I've been trying to make myself feel better by noticing all the guys just as short. And yea I think confidence is a big factor (not to be confused with doucheyness) sometimes it overpasses the height issue. I guess it helps that my gf is slighty shorter anyways and she doesn't care about height.

And to get off topic, cowboi what kinda dog do you have?

My dog is an Italian Greyhound, sometimes called Iggys, IGs or miniature greyhounds. They are very interesting dogs actually, not very typical in behavior or personality. He's more like having a small child than a dog. Sometimes I think I just got a large goofy looking cat who is very needy lol. He prefers cats for company and play over dogs and is best buds with my fiancee's cat. They cuddle and sleep together, play together and even take food out of their dishes and deliver it to one another as treats lol.

I told Bianca about this thread and she got a big kick out of it. She is very amused by my "tiny man syndrome" as I call it. I get very whiny or very pissy at random points in time over my height. I have at least one day a month where I suffer from tiny man syndrome.

Oh, man, I get that feeling a lot.  I know I should be grateful that I grew a few inches recently (went from 4'11"-5'0" to 5'2"-5'3" when I was 19), but I still feel awfully short, and even when people think I'm a girl, they mistake me for being 8+ years younger than I am.  My insecurity with my height has been the biggest thing that makes me second-guess transition largely because I'm worried about being a short man for the rest of my life, as if that's such a terrible thing to be.  I should have plenty of experience from being seen as a short girl all those years!  But somehow that reasoning only makes me feel worse, that and thinking that if I were shorter, as in <5', people would just assume I was a Little Person and it wouldn't be as bad as being just plain short.  It helped that I found out not too long ago that Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC are approximately my height, and they're major badasses, so being a short man doesn't mean I can't get respect, etc.  I'm really pleased to see lots of other kickass short guys featured on those blogs/sites.  (-:

Quote from: Ilan Reshon on September 06, 2010, 10:50:13 PM
It helped that I found out not too long ago that Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC are approximately my height, and they're major badasses, so being a short man doesn't mean I can't get respect, etc.  I'm really pleased to see lots of other kickass short guys featured on those blogs/sites.  (-:

Very true, check out actors and professional wrestlers, it is very common for men to be short surprisingly and some of the men that society has claimed to be the sexiest alive are around our heights in reality. It's just a matter of putting them on screen next to people who match them lol. Maybe it's all just about finding someone the perfect height to stand next to forever.

Quote from: Cowboi on September 06, 2010, 11:37:34 PM
Maybe it's all just about finding someone the perfect height to stand next to forever.

Ahh, true love!

I served with a guy in the Navy who was, and I am not kidding you, 4'6". Five inches shorter than Judy Garland. Shorter than I was in sixth grade at age 11. He didn't even come up to my armpit...or most guys' waists. I could lean on his head. And did. He was born physically male, there wasn't a thing wrong with him, he isn't a dwarf or a mutant, and nobody mistakes him for a little boy. We gave him ->-bleeped-<- about his height because...well, because we were in the military, and if we hadn't, that would have been remarkable. But he was totally cool with it, brimming with confidence, and got as many girls as any other guy there (i.e. a lot).

Believe me, you can be a man and be short.

I also hate my height.  Just a couple inches, two or three really.  The funny thing is that all the guys at my work are around the same height and we all hate it, though more different reasons.  My co-worker is exactly my height, my manager at most two inches taller, and my master is only an inch taller than me. 
None the less we've found people judge your age more by personality than looks, unless we're talking first impression.  My manager and I get mistaken for being usually three years older than we are, my co-worker five years younger (he's kinda an obvious party person along with other things) and my master is always thought to be exactly his age.  The best thing, any of these guys are so completely capable of beating the crap out of anyone who may try to ->-bleeped-<- with them despite other various social stereotypes or stigmas for being less than masculine.

Quote from: JosephKT on September 07, 2010, 01:59:30 AM
None the less we've found people judge your age more by personality than looks, unless we're talking first impression.

This always seems to work strangely for me. I have piercings (facial), facial hair and tattoos that are completely visible on my arm and neck but still get mistaken for a teenager. I don't really understand that. How many 17 year old guys have all of that going on? It isn't like I ran out on my 18th birthday, got 2 visible tattoos (4 depending on how I'm dressed) and 4 facial piercings within a week.

To top it off I dress in clothes that fit well, aren't a common teenage style (like button up shirts or plain tshirts and pants that fit me) and don't really give off any kind of party vibe beyond the tats/piercing thing. I have normal hair cuts, normal dye jobs, etc.

It always blows my mind. I know with most things people are required to ID you... but for example, when I buy a lighter? A LIGHTER?!?! Or a can of spray paint? At that point I just want to smack some people.

Quote from: Cowboi on September 07, 2010, 03:06:40 AM
This always seems to work strangely for me. I have piercings (facial), facial hair and tattoos that are completely visible on my arm and neck but still get mistaken for a teenager. I don't really understand that. How many 17 year old guys have all of that going on? It isn't like I ran out on my 18th birthday, got 2 visible tattoos (4 depending on how I'm dressed) and 4 facial piercings within a week.

I don't have any piercings or tats but I do rock somewhat longer hair, wear skinny jeans, t-shirts, converse, etc. So yeah I may dress younger than I am but hell there's lots of old people that wear converse at least lol. People as a whole make so many judgments just based off of looks or attire. That's the real problem there.

Wow, im glad im not the only one that has anxiety about their hieght.
Its was bugs me most, cause I can't help it. I can't change it, I always be a little man, a short guy and I mean SHORT. Not short for a guy, short for a girl.


Everyday I deal with everybody being taller than me, having bigger hands, bigger feet, longer arms, longer legs...and some days its gets me so down I just hate it...
I feel that because of my lack of height, I have to do other things to make up for it.
Like I work out, but mostly on my upper body, to have big muscles to make up for my shortness.
In high school I had gotten this little person big personality award, but I've changed a lot and idk if I still have that charming charisma everybody liked.
I try to be confident, but its so overpowering it gets me way down.
I see guys around my height, but they're still taller than me. And I don't look asian enough to blame it on that. One thing that made my day yesterday was I was actually taller than a biomale! He was older, like 40s, and asian but not hunched over or anything. But it still wasn't enough to make me feel good about myself, or just be ok.

That blog is somewhat of an inspiration, but those guys aren't short to me. Short is under 5'3" to me, for a guy.

Quote from: Fencesitter on September 06, 2010, 02:44:25 PM
My father has almost the same problem as you, he's a little bit taller but chubby. He goes clothes shopping in Strasbourg (France) as French male clothes tend to have smaller sizes. Maybe you can find an online shopping solution from a French, Italian etc. online shop. Mediterranean guys are often small.

Yeah, My father's French. So, he's small too, only about 5'4" or so...but that's a good idea to look online for French stores that might sell clothing in smaller sizes for smaller men! Thanks for that!

Quote from: insideontheoutside on September 07, 2010, 12:30:37 PM
I don't have any piercings or tats but I do rock somewhat longer hair, wear skinny jeans, t-shirts, converse, etc. So yeah I may dress younger than I am but hell there's lots of old people that wear converse at least lol. People as a whole make so many judgments just based off of looks or attire. That's the real problem there.

People are going to go on reading messages in what others wear so long as people insist that what they wear is a form of self-expression. You can't have it both ways: either what you wear is a unique expression of your individuality, or what you wear doesn't mean anything.