You know, what’s funny is that most people who meet me in real life think I’m taller, too, until they stand next to me. I don’t think I have the “build” or a person as short as I am, or something. I’m like a walking optical illusion.
I’m male, and 6 feet 4, barefoot. Probably at 17. My legs barely reach the ground.
You’ve seen that height-weight chart the Metropolitan Insurance folks gave your doctor, right? If you read the fine print, it says, “in 1-inch heels.” So, you’re taller than you thought, or thinner than you thought for your height in shoes. That’s nice to know.
Here’s a photo link.
Of the three photos, I’m the one that isn’t a tomato.
Male, 5’11½". Hit that height at about 17. I had hoped to hit 6 feet but never did.
I’m 6’1". I grew like a shoot for a long while and thought I’d stop somewhere around 6’6", but I never made it.
That icon is supposed to represent “embarrassment,” according to the label that appears when your cursor hovers over it, but it looks something like the face on one of those inflatable sex dolls if you ask me.
Height: 5’9
Gender: Female
I would love to be 6’0 tall. For professional/ business gatherings, I like to wear three-inch heels. 
It works every time!
I have always been taller than my classmates and was 5’9 in junior high school.
6’1" Male
I went from about 5’2" to this height in huge burst between my sophmore and junior years of HS. So I was 16 when I finished.
It really suprised people when I came back to school that year.
As I said, I am 5’2" which is fairly short. Shortest in my family. When I got my first house, I took great pains to decorate it well. When my Mother came for a visit she pulled me aside and said “Honey, the house is lovely, but when the books say to hang the pictures at eye level they didn’t mean your eye level. The rest of us are looking at the top of the frame.”
This happened to a (male) friend of mine, except it was sophomore and junior year of college; he had stretch marks all up and down his back.
I am female, 52, and shrinking.
I used to be a smidge under 5’7" and now I’m somewhere around 5’6 and a quarter.
Am curious to see what happens with younger son, his big brother, at 18 and 5’11" was finished growing, however the younger kid is 5’11" now but at 18 does not appear to be quite done, his feet are humungous.
Thanks for the early morning snort!
ETA: being short as well, I always hang my pictures/artwork just under the crown molding. It forces others to look up, just as I do, but it actually is a very cool aesthetic to me.
Male. 5’10" since about 15 or 16.
Joe
I used to be just over 6’, but have begun shrinking with age, so I’m now about 5’11". Male. Hat size is still the same. Tallest dude I ever saw in person was Manute Bol; the guy was so skinny he looked like a giant praying mantis. I stood in line at the Hibbing, MN airport next to Kevin McHale. The guy looked huge.
196cm tall and 110kg heavy. Male. Oh, you want imperial. That’s 6’4" and 17 stone. Sorry again, you want 'Merican :). That’s 230lbs.
I was short and round until end of 9th grade, then sprouted over that summer and was 6’1 by the time school came back. I grew steadily all through high school, then put another 2" on after I graduted. At the risk of hurled objects, I’ve been at least close to the same weight from when I was 14 (hence short and fat before, just plain large now) ever since, but sometimes it shifts from my shoulders to my waist 
5’8’, male, 53.
Just want to add that the tallest among us are those who stoop to help another.
I’m F, 5’3", got that way in high school.
No, the tallest amongst us hit their heads a lot. Like me.
Short people always forget that one particular crappy part of being tall.
I’ve made a fool of myself more than once on the buses, getting up from a seat and seeing something coming at my head so I flinch enough to fall back into the seat… and it’s just the rubber loops on the cross bars for people to hold onto while standing.
And it’s all because I keep bumping my head on things (not as much now thank goodness, I’ve become a better judge of the height of things relative to my head), so I automatically try to avoid it.
I was surprised when a woman recently asked me to get an item from an upper supermarket shelf because “you’re so tall”. Since I’m a 5’11" guy, I don’t consider my height at all extraordinary. I was always short for my age, but started “shooting up” when I was about 14 or 15. I’m not sure when I topped out.
I’ve attended several WNBA games in which Margo Dydek (#12 in this photo) participated. It’s amazing to see women who are 6’2", and would attract attention worthy of giants while walking down the street, standing next to her and looking like little girls in comparison to someone who’s a full foot taller!
5’8" female. Finished growing when I was 13 or 14.
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