I take off my clothes and all these ties

[sovay]

The physical therapist I am seeing for my back has now referred to me clinically as tall and middle-aged. I have no issue with my age, but I have always thought of myself as on the shorter side of medium height and anything else an illusion of the way I carry myself. My family made me look up the average AFAB height in the U.S. My mother has offered to get me a cardigan for being tall and middle-aged in. In high school she was devastated when she grew that quarter-inch taller than Mickey Rooney, because now he would never ask her to dance. She is not very sympathetic.

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[vass]

Commiserations on your advanced height.

(I have been told that I carry myself on the internet like a short person. I chose to take that as a compliment, but I fear it was some variant form of fuckor where in fact a person's inference about you was not true but now you feel like it's exposed some deeper truth all the same.)

[sovay]

Commiserations on your advanced height.

Heh. Thank you.

I have been told that I carry myself on the internet like a short person.

I have absolutely no idea what that means! Like, my first thought is little but fierce, but . . . ?