I had an interesting discussion with my 6’7" husband tonight . He was talking about being at a conference recently with a guy that was 6’9" and he said he asked the guy how tall he was. I asked ( sons are 6’5, 6’6. BIL is 6’10, nephew is 6’11), why he did that as it can certainly be an annoying question( we have had interesting questions over the years -the usual how tall are you, do you play basketball- how’s the weather up there, is there a tall convention in town,etc) All of these guys were/are athletic people. He said the difference was that this guy was a “peer”, they could relate and did not look at each other as “freakazoids” because of their height. He said they could ask, talk about it because he felt they were “peers” and could relate. Being very tall can have some challenges. Many do feel they are a little different. Which I think is not always obvious to outsiders.
Same goes for the vertically challenged. At 5 ft I get asked all the time how tall I am. Things like ‘oh my you are so short’ get my response ‘really? oh my I never noticed’.
When in second grade I asked the teacher if I could take the attendance paper to the principals office sometime. She always picked the two girls that were tall in the class to do it. She said ‘you’re too small’. I said ‘really, how tall do you have to be to walk to the office?’ yes I got to do it then. When I interviewed for medical school in 1977 I was asked ‘how can you practice medicine being so short?’ I answered ‘with the skill I hope to obtain from med school’. I got in there but went elsewhere.
All my life it has been a reminder. I do find that even if I am talking with a person 6’6" when you sit it is a lot easier and feel on even ground.
I think that no matter what takes you outside the ‘norm’ people will notice, make assumptions, and have trouble dealing with something different than them. That is why I think it is important to expose yourself and your children to as much diversity as possible.
I’m 6’0" which isn’t incredibly tall for a female but it is when you consider I’ve been this height since I was about 14.
I don’t care about the how tall are you questions but I despised the whole “did you play x or do y?” questions.
Now that I’m in a wheelchair, I’m short for the first time in my life and it’s a very different experience! 
I used to get comments a lot, but now many younger women are taller than I am (5’-9"). S once commented that if they were looking for me in the store they just looked for the really tall woman.
There’s a teller at the bank who is so tiny (but not a little person) that I have to bite my tongue not to ask where she can possibly shop for clothing!
So sorry you are in a wheelchair, @romanigypsyeyes . I’m only 5’6" but my nephew is 6’11". His mother is over 6 feet
tall though and his dad is 6’10."
I’m on the borderline of short/medium myself. But my Sister-in-law is 6’1", and her daughter, my niece, is 6’2". They rock the tall outstandingly. My niece, particularly, is a gorgeous goddess.
@sevmom I can understand your husband’s position “talking with a peer”. The same would probably apply to almost any physical feature that can generate unwanted comments. Two very thin people can probably more easily talk about the difficulties of keeping weight on or finding fitting clothes, while they each would be annoyed hearing comments from others. Two bald guys can talk about when they began losing their hair, and that’s probably not bothersome…but being asked by a full-headed person probably is.
I’ve come to appreciate some aspects of being short and slender, such as fitting into airplane seats more easily than many people. But never being able to reach things “up high” without the aid of a stepstool is aggravating.
The worst thing about being a tall female is that I can rarely find any danged pants that are long enough.
Oh and this does annoy me (no offense)- when short people say “we can’t find any pants that fit either!” Yes, but you can hem. Adding material just doesn’t look as good…
No worries @sevmom It’s been very helpful and I can still walk short distances Though I do wish people would just why I’m in the chair rather than awkwardly stare at me :-?? (but I absolutely understand why they don’t!)
I can see your husbands point. I would guess there is a certain shared experience in being that tall. Once I start talking to someone physical differences just fade away and I just stop noticing. My H has me by 10 inches but I have seldom felt short sound him.
I always thought it would be especially advantageous to see over everyone when in a crowd. However, it must be very difficult to be in an audience where people are angry that you are in their line of site.
I think the same goes for a short male. My son, who is 5’7.5" loves finding other short men as he frequently feels out of place and envies the tall men who get a lot more attention.
I’m a 6-foot tall woman and I love to wear heels so I get asked how tall I am almost on a daily basis. I don’t mind at all.
I am 5’4." I’d love to be taller!
I was always the tiniest one in my class and had several similar experiences. It rarely seemed as if my classmates cared, it was the adults who made assumptions. In my case, though I grew 7 inches in HS and ended up being 5’7".
I never comment on a person’s height - no matter what it might be.
I was going to post the same thing! I am also 5’-9". I like my height. 
I went to a women’s conference a few years back. There were NO men in attendance. In the concourse, it was so funny - I was looking over a sea of heads! But I have also noticed how many younger women are very tall. My 18-year-old niece is taller than I am (of course her dad is 6’-6" tall!).
My 18-year-old daughter is tiny. Last night, when were checking out at the grocery store with a cart overloaded with food, a woman asked what it was for. I told her it was for my daughter’s graduation party. The lady looked at my daughter in surprise, and said, “High school??” She said she would have guessed D was in middle school. D is getting tired of people, including this stranger, telling her, “You’ll be happy you look young when you’re older!”
Wow, I love your sass!! I am also 5’ tall and I feel that I am “overlooked” a lot of the time.
I arranged my son’s Bar Mitzvah completely by telephone with the party planner at the venue we chose. We I arrived for the event itself and met her for the first time, she paused, looked at me, and said, “You sound taller on the phone.” I think it’s because there’s an assumption that short people aren’t as competent or mature.
But maybe that’s just the chip on my shoulder.
I was at a Green Day event, pushing Electric Vehicles, when a guy asked if he could sit in my Tesla Model X (on the East Coast they’re not available in showrooms yet). Try as we might, we couldn’t make it very comfortable for him at 6’10" (I asked for research purposes). He fit, but only barely. I’m 5’8" on a good day, and would have liked to be taller, but 6’10" seems to be sufficiently far from the median that it’s not accounted for by engineers.
When my 6’11" nephew visited us , his 6’10" dad made sure to tell my husband he would need to have a bigger bed to sleep in. So, my 6’5" son had to vacate his own queen size bed for his cousin and move to his old twin bed for a few days! My husband is sensitive to not blocking people at an event. We were at an outdoor event recently and ran into somebody we knew. She said, I see your husband back there (he was standing way back, not near me). I said, yeah, he’s back there because he doesn’t want to block anybody’s view.
My daughter has faced a lifetime of comments about her skin tone. I think it is tasteless.
I am 6’ 2 3/4" tall, ie the perfect height for a man, tall, but not “too tall”.
If I encounter a tall man: No problem asking him how tall he is, or if he plays any sports. “How’s the weather up there?” is a stupid obnoxious comment/question you will never hear from my lips.
Short people of either sex, I do not ask how tall they are, any more than I ask someone how much they weigh.
If I encounter a tall woman, and she strikes me as having a lot of self confidence, and I find myself looking at her eye-to-eye, I might ask how tall she is.