I take off my clothes and all these ties

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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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Have you come to any conclusions?

Nope! I just think it's hilariously specific and also incorrect. Like when other people are like "oh, you look like a [name that is not yours]."

It was wild starting grad school in-person after my first year was totally virtual and discovering how tall/short people were after spending eight months staring at them as little Zoom squares. I still think we should have taken bets beforehand.