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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[sara]

I'm tall enough that it's a hindrance to my dating life and honestly a nuisance socially and professionally -- I'm as big as a lot of guys so they read me as a threat. Meanwhile my children, who would prefer to be ambiguously and androgynously shaped, are strongly sexually dimorphic. Embodiment is a shitshow.

[minoanmiss]

Ugh, why do we have to be fucking corporeal.

[sovay]

Ugh, why do we have to be fucking corporeal.

I am a big fan of sensory experiences, but more ambivalent about the delivery system.

[minoanmiss]

Unsurprisingly you phrased this perfectly.

[kore]

So many guys are SO put off by tall or "big" women. SO, so many. Even tall ones!

[sovay]

I'm as big as a lot of guys so they read me as a threat.

Pfui. I hope there are some in your life who are not so insecure, but no love for the rest of them.

Meanwhile my children, who would prefer to be ambiguously and androgynously shaped, are strongly sexually dimorphic.

Please send them my sincere sympathy.

Embodiment is a shitshow.

I have complicated feelings about it!

*hugs*