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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2022-10-07 08:46 pm

I take off my clothes and all these ties

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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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2022-10-08 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)

Unsurprisingly you phrased this perfectly.