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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[ethelmay]

I am also in the 5'4" club (though for a brief shining decade or so I was 5'5"). My mother was about 5'7" and was flummoxed when all four of her daughters turned out shorter than she (my dad was average height and my grandparents were all average to shortish, so I don't know why it was a surprise). All of my kids are taller than I am, but their father is 6'3". I feel like a hen shooing my grown-up geese children around.