It’s funny that giraffe memes and tall person memes are sometimes the same. 

If you are tall, you have definitely been called a giraffe or something resembling that. It happens. I’m not super tall, but I’m taller than most women I know and taller than a lot of men. This has caused a lot of different things in my life over the years. My height grew up pretty late, so I didn’t have to listen to the dumb jokes high schoolers make to taller kids. I never heard a «How is the weather up there?» or people asking me if I played basketball. But some weird things did happen to me that can only be linked to my height. 

I remember that for a while, when I got up from a seat in front of an unknown person, they were always surprised by how tall I am. It has also happened to me to be asked my height even by people who don’t know me. But the worst is when I fancied a boy, and they felt threatened by my height, as if a girl couldn’t be taller than a boy. I hate that stereotype. Luckily, one day you realize that a man who is confident in himself won’t feel threatened by a taller girl in any way. 

Another thing I hate is when I wear heels or any shoe that makes me taller, and people tell me that I’m brave for wearing something like that with my height. First of all, I do not measure 2 meters, but even if I did, what’s the problem with that? Am I not allowed to wear whatever shoes I want? Am I not allowed to be taller? Secondly, what is the problem with being tall? Do people feel less for being short? It’s just a physical trait of no importance in reality. So why can’t I wear what I want when I want to? I’m sick of all that. It takes confidence to stop caring about what other people think, but when you have it, you become unstoppable. So be confident; being tall or short doesn’t really matter.