Hello !
So today, I would like to ask for the help of some ladies in the room 🙂
I would like to draw a serie of comics that would include tall girls problems AND short girls problems. The thing is, as most of you may have noticed, I’m not short. Like, at all. Therefore I have absolutely no idea of what a short girl’s life is about !
THIS IS FOR THE SHORTIES OUT THERE ! (real shorties k ? Only because you’re 5’5″ and wish you were a little bit taller doesn’t make you short) (sorry 😉 ) So again, this is for the shorties in the room and for the shorties friends anyone in the room has ! Pass it on !
So shorties ! I want to hear about your stories ! ANYTHING. The pros and the cons, something funny/sad/mean/weird that happened to you once, something that happens recurrently in shorties lives, nicknames people give/gave you, things short girls have trouble doing, things that are easier for short girls, why is being short the best thing in the world, why is it complicated, school stories, adult stories, ANYTHING about SHORTIES ;D
I will leave it there for a while to get as many stories as possible.
You can post your story as a comment here. It’s also happening on Tall N Curly’s Facebook page, and if you have some story you don’t want to tell in public, send it to me at at tallncurly@rocketmail.com ! 😉
Thank you all for your help and let’s all LAUGH AT OURSELVES TOGETHER !!!! :DDD
I’m 13 and 5’1.1″ which means that I’m shorter than 75% of girls my age. However, my crazy curly hair gives me an advantage. All my friends are short as well, and when we stand next to each other to see who is taller, my friends always complain that my hair makes me taller, so it’s “not fair.” XD
Just found your site looking for “curly hair in the rain” memes. Great stuff! I especially got a kick out of short-menaces “wasted inches.”
I’m (almost) 5 ft and over 40 – still get called sweetie & hun & some people still pat me on the head, but I’m finally learning to love my curls. I still climb on the kitchen counters to get things off the higher shelves. I’ve learned the art of finding nearby objects to reach up and knock items off the top shelves at grocery stores (those shelves are climb-resistant). At clothing stores, I’ll use the hanger from the lower items to knock stuff off the top racks and down to my level.
When I was in HS, friends thought it was funny to dig through the carpet, calling my name.
Hugs – too many armpits and boobs in my face to count over the years
Hugs #2 – my hair gets in people’s faces (especially on a “big hair” day
Hugs #3 – danger of suffocating
Subways – again, I’m armpit height (not fun when people are hanging onto overhead poles/straps
Crowds – suffocation issues again (and can’t see anything but people’s chests/stomachs
cropped pants = (possibly) no hemming required!
miniskirts = also may not have to hem (and almost impossible to find them too short).
Curbs = best place to hug my hubby (he’s 6 ft)
Pictures – I always have to be in front
Chairs – feet don’t reach the floor, so I look like a child swinging my legs
Barstools – have to climb up on them and jump down
Best nick-name… “fun-size” (from a 6’4″guy I met dancing one night)
Best tattoo quote – And though she be but little, she is fierce! (Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Best come-back – I’m not short, I’m space-efficient! (except for my hair)
Thanks for the laughs today!
JJ
I am 5feet even at 18 years old. All of my family members are way taller than me (even my 12 y/o sister and 13 year old niece who are both 5’7) I have always been the shortest in class and sometimes shorter than people in grades below me. After a while though, I loved being as short as I am because it’s different and it’s something people always remember me by. So I turned the jokes around and tried to make them positive. I hated going to amusement parks and fairs bc i would rarely be able to ride the huge roller coasters that I LOVED. I often get mistaken for a middle schooler instead of a college student but lukily i have more mature features if you catch my drift. However, I have always wanted to be taller. Like maybe 5’7-5’8. I can’t walk in heels very well so I stick to flats/sneakers. My huge curly fro always adds some inches though so I love wearing my hair natural bc it makes me feel bigger (: love your comics xoxo
being tall/short isnt easy plus the curly hair might as well start a blog and share it with the world. 😉
I am 5” even. My siblings and my not-so tall parents are all taller than I am. I am 9 years older than my brother and when people see pictures of us hugging and smiling, I always get “awww…you guys are so cute together!” He’s my brother…pervs! He loves it and laughs it up. I am also in the unique position of being physically unable to wear heels. Well, I can wear them but I think they are a cruel joke… a ploy to get all women to fall and break their necks! I find them horribly uncomfortable and prefer my flats. This choice I made as a human being with the rights to do so, irks a lot of people like you won’t believe! I had one lady at my job commenting about how good I looked in heels and how I never looked nice without heels. Thanks lady! I am short but not a waif by any means. I have 36D boobs, a bit of ass and what has been described as “long legs for such a short girl” so it is quite hard to buy clothes. I really don’t fit into a lot of petites so I have to get regular size and in jeans and most trousers, that’s just a nightmare. I am 30, living in Nigeria where we are big on respect. Guess who never gets any respect….that’s right…shortie over here!!!! I’m with friends who I am older than and they get all the respect at parties, stores, from doormen etc while I look like the younger sister they are taking out for the day as a favour. I had a contractor at my apartment telling me that I sounded like a ‘mature woman’ when I talk…that’s cos I AM a ‘mature woman’…whatever that means. Lol. Oh and don’t get me started on the pocket sized jokes and how I didn’t pay a growth levy in heaven. I had one guy tell me I was so cute, he could put me in his pocket!!! In his pocket….I mean!!!!!!!! It can be a nightmare. In the past, it got to me but these days I couldn’t care less and I love myself too much to be bothered by things beyond my control.
I loveeeeeeee your blog. I never comment because I am a shortie. But thanks for this opportunity though.
I’m 5ft 3 short and curly I have really tight unruly Afro curls that just have a mind of it’s own! I went natural 5 months ago lol but good news is even though I’m short I still got approached by modeling agencies to model and people still say I can be a model. I think it’s because I’m really skinny and csnt gain weight . I’m like tiny compared to everyone when I had straight permed hair I was basically invisible. Now that I’m natural and my hair keeps growing and growing people usually stare at me now like I’m some freak alien . I’m in college too 🙂 This journey is hard because I got positive and negative comments and I have a lot of bad hair days lol I know it’s just going to get harder when my hair gets big and I have a big curly Afro but I’m pushing through . Thanks for your comics I can relate somehwat and it’s really funny lol
Bit late on the commenting here! But would just like to say how amazing your comics are!
And I just thought of a prime example of a short ‘n’ curly problem. At just 5″3 my crazy curls totally suffocate my husband every time he hugs me or they can send him into a sneezing fit due to tickly tendrils sneaking up his nose.
But again, your comics are brilliant, so so relate-able and love your drawing style.
Thank you so much Ellie ! 😀
This will part of a comic soon 😉 Thank you ! 😀
4’9
Hi 🙂 I’m 5′ 2″ and African so there was no hope of me ever having naturally straight hair. I only learned to love my curls last year so now i’m in that awkward medium length fro phase. Whenever i stretch out my hair I always get stopped and people ask the one question every black girl is tired of hearing “Is that a weave?” followed by “Its not? Is it a wig?” and without fail “Wow! For real? Can I touch it?” follows. I always resist the urge to hiss and scream “Do you know how long it took to get it like this?! Don’t touch it!!”
I’ve always been short but it never really sunk in until puberty came along and every kept growing but me. Everyone in my family is taller than me which means they know who to use all their short jokes on. The worst part of being short? Tall people seem to love holding things out of your reach and watch you jump for it. :/ Another pet peeve is sensors on automatic doors! They never sense me because im too short. I literally have to walk behind someone it walk in with a friend so that the doors open. Whenever i’m alone i have to do that awkward ‘step-back-and-forth-until-it-detects-you’ dance or the ‘throw-your-hands-in-the-air-wave-them-around-like-your-signalling-a-plane’ dance then walk in calmly like nothing happened. :/
I’m 21 and currently studying in a university outside of Africa so I fly a lot. I still get mistaken for an unaccompanied minor each time i fly and the flight attendants never bother confirming anything with me. During one of my flights back home, one of the flight attendants brought me a kids meal complete with large pink cutlery and a toy. I was too stunned to correct her so I just ate my meal and I kept the toy as a personal joke.
Hi! I’m 5′ 2 1/2″. My driver’s license says 5’3″ because I could round up. I’m also mixed, but my mother got married to my (step) dad when I was just a baby, so he’s dad. He’s also 6’7″ and comes from a family of giants (2 aunts over 6′ 2″ and an uncle at 6′ 10″).
I have become the “flood detector” and official arm rest for the majority of my family. My husband is 6′ 2″ and just follows along with his father-in-law. He bought me a special step stool to get the spices that he insists on placing in the cabinet above the fridge. I am also responsible for getting everything on the lower shelf. It’s great (not).
I work in a library. Every time I have to put a book on the top shelf, I reach up and practically fall over on my tip-toes while my shirt rides up to show all of the world my stomach. I have to wear long shirts to work, or play the hold-down-my-shirt-while-reaching-up-like-an-idiot game.
Also, my mother and my little sister are both taller than me.
I’ve been blessed with the awesome combo of biological father’s kinky hair (the black half of me) mixed with mom’s wispy, thin, fly-away hair (white half) that gave me what my father called “the mop” growing up. I didn’t get kinky OR curly, I got a Frankenstein mix of both. Since both my parents are white and come from the land of the beautiful straight hair, they let me chop it off at age 5 just like your mom did (no more crying while brushing out the knots they said) But my dad went a step further and let me cut it to about 3 inches long. I’ve been trying to grow it out for years!