People come and all different shapes and sizes. Some people come in a size that could be considered “perpetual child.” For those of us who are tiny, we have our own struggles that can only be understood by other tiny people. Believe me when I say being little isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Here are some life struggles that us petite girls go through daily.
1. You get pushed around very easily (literally).
2. Don’t even try to go into a crowded frat party or bar without essentially getting stepped on by everyone there who is taller than you (so basically everyone there).
3. You have been mistaken for a minor when you have been over 18 for several years now.
4. You were legitimately afraid they would think your real ID was a fake on your 21st birthday.
5. Fashion trends are often not your friend.
6. Like the oversized trend. Everything is already oversized on you so when a sweater is made bigger, you just look like you’re wearing a potato sack.
7. And the boho trend. Those cute pants come about a foot past your feet.
8. Any time you are in a crowd with your friends, you get separated from them because you can’t really see where they went.
9. So whenever you do happen to be in a crowd, you have to cling to your friends for dear life.
10. When shopping, you often just have to swallow your pride and hit up the children’s section.
11. When you get mad, no one takes you seriously because they think it’s so “cute.”
12. Actually, any time you are trying to be serious no one really takes it seriously.
13. Your friends get mad because you make them look seven feet tall in pictures.
14. Do you want your cute outfit to actually be in the picture with your tall guy friend? Well then, the picture is going to have to be taken zoomed out all the way from about ten feet back.
15. People think it’s okay to just randomly pick you up.
16. Someone has picked you up and twirled you around and you have seen your life flashing before your eyes.
17. Any time there is no seat available, people always tell you to just sit on their lap.
18. Car is full? Fully expect to be sitting in the middle seat.
19. Cooking is physically exhausting considering you have to keep hoisting yourself up on the countertops to reach any of your pots, pans, or ingredients.
20. If anyone sits in front of you anywhere, you will be guaranteed to not be able to see that is going on.
21. Every time someone else drives your car, they think it’s funny to talk about how close the seat was to the steering wheel when they first got in the car.
22. You always have to find someone to help you reach stuff when you’re shopping.
23. You die inside when the cute dress you want to buy is not available in extra small.
24. If you ever just are feeling a little fat one day and voice that thought, everyone around you jumps down your throat about how tiny you are.
25. Whenever you eat a lot, someone also makes the, “Where do you put it all?” joke. I put it in my stomach like all humans, thank you.
26. People literally always walk into you or cut you off because they probably just can’t see you.
27. Your height peak was in middle school.
28. You try really hard to look hot but you are inevitably just called cute.
29. Sometimes you have a really hard time seeing over the dashboard when you’re trying to drive.
30. If you have to stand on the bus, you will fall because you can’t really reach the overhead handrails.
31. You have been personally victimized by the “real women have curves" movement. Real women are all sizes, kthanksbye.
32. If you have ever made the mistake of trying to keep up with your friends while drinking, you know how much of a disaster resulted.
33. Everyone always says, “I wish I was as tiny as you” and it’s really annoying.
34. When you complain about being small, people act like you just cursed your dead grandmother.
35. Your significantly younger relatives are taller than you.
36. Wearing heels doesn’t make you tall; it makes you the size of normal people.
37. If your friends decide to wear heels out and you don’t, you suddenly look like you’re walking around with an NBA player by comparison.
38. Stores never carry enough extra smalls, so you have a silent rivalry with all other tiny people to be the one to get the only outfits that will fit you.
39. You get very surprised when you don’t get carded at a bar.
40. Bracelets look ridiculous on you because they basically are falling right off your wrists.
41. If you drive a car that is anything larger than a small sedan, people think it’s just so hilarious.
42. Mini skirts are suddenly midi skirts.
43. Midi skirts are suddenly maxi skirts.
44. Maxi skirts just drag all over the ground on you so you don’t wear them.
45. People think you are an armrest.
46. You have mastered the art of cuffing.
47. Sometimes you still consider ordering off the kids’ menu.
48. You can’t imagine not being able to fit into children’s shoes.
49. You actually, secretly enjoy being petite even though it kind of sucks.
