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Insecurities.. Help Please

erm....welll everyone has insecurites and resons for being less conifdent.....i was wondering what those were...??

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i hate my height i am only 5'7'' and am 16....which makes me less confident etc....i play sports still....and rugby n stuff but i need/want to grow to fit in.... is it possible for me to still grow now even though i'm this old.....? i have very big hands for my height so i assumed might grow into them but no such thing has happened as of yet....

any helpp appreciated

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Reply 1
girls like big hands...........you know what they say...big hands....big....
Reply 2
hahaha cheers...

anyway...2 da point

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Reply 3
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=412627

There is nothing you can do about your height, you will either stop growing now or not. Learn to live with it.
Anonymous
erm....welll everyone has insecurites and resons for being less conifdent.....i was wondering what those were...??

second part of post....
i hate my height i am only 5'7'' and am 16....which makes me less confident etc....i play sports still....and rugby n stuff but i need/want to grow to fit in.... is it possible for me to still grow now even though i'm this old.....? i have very big hands for my height so i assumed might grow into them but no such thing has happened as of yet....

any helpp appreciated


Calm down :smile:
I've never noticed any connection between height and 'fitting in'. 5'7" is well within the realms of the normal, and I can think of a lot of guys I know who are shorter than that. Also, men usually get taller later than women, so there's a good possibility you've still got growing to do if you've not had a growth spurt already.
Wikipedia tells me that the average height for a man in the UK is 5'9", and for a woman, 5'4". So, you are still taller than most women, which is, perhaps, what counts... And closer to normality than I am, at 6'0" (a deviation from the norm of 8 inches :s-smilie: makes buying trousers an absolute nightmare).
Reply 5
thanks alot ^^^ yer i can image...when are that tall it is a trouble...so works both ways, tall and short...

well i have had a small spurt...but do u have many or just 1?

i jsut want to be about normal really...and not feel insecure around people and taller women...

i expect you (^^^^) have trouble finding men talleer than you all the time
5'7 is fine! you'll prob get taller as well because guys have most guys i know have had a growth spurt first at like 12-13 and then another at 17-18.

my boyfriends 5'7 and he's the perfect height : )
HeadShock
girls like big hands...........you know what they say...big hands....big....

:wink: I totally agree with this
And the height? dont worry about it.
My insecurities are from ****ty past relationships, mean people and me thinking too much.
Reply 8
^^thinking too much into comments etc you mean???
girls i know seem to do that alott.....

hmm i try not worry about it...but alwyas come bck to it...specicially when out wi m8's who tower over me, makin me feel well small n child like
Reply 9
cutelilchica
5'7 is fine! you'll prob get taller as well because guys have most guys i know have had a growth spurt first at like 12-13 and then another at 17-18.

my boyfriends 5'7 and he's the perfect height : )



so theres hope yet!!! how tall are you if you dnt mind me asking??

17-18?? hmm
HeadShock
girls like big hands...........you know what they say...big hands....big....



gloves?
Reply 11
Don't worry about it! I'm sure my last boyfriend was about 5'7". I'm 5'3", by the way. You might grow a bit more anyway. When i was 15 I was about 5'1", I'm 17 now. A couple of my friends have grown a little in the past year too.
Conversely, I have been the same height since I was thirteen.
I was in the same position as you, I am starting uni this September. I'm still short relative to my friends and it used to severely depress me. Now I actually don't mind it at all. You're not excessively short, you're just slightly below average. In fact probably average for your age. If you're anything like me then it will stop bothering you in the next two years, and you will realise that being a little shorter than average is no obstacle to most things.
The average male height is 5"10. I heard it after Eastenders on the intro of a BBC3 programme about short men.
Reply 15
kylie is apparently about 5"1 !!! doesn't look like it at all.Anastacia is also pretty short. 5"7 is fine!
my guy's 5ft 7 (or 8 he says, heh) he's sooo cute, and i love hugging him, he makes me feel all warm and cosy. my face reaches his heart (somewhere around there) :smile:.

Don't worry about it, im sure there are plently of smaller girls, who would love the height you are.
If I could give you an inch or two I would. I am sure you will grow taller - you know...guys do not stop growing until they reach 21. So there is still hope.
Reply 18
mte i in the sme state as u but worse...im 16, 5'6 and yh disproprtional -- size 10 feet and big hands..i want to grow...i do weights..everyone tells me that iit stunts my growth but ive been alover the internet and they saythat weights do not stunt growth
Big hands??? That's hot. You've been dealt one hell of a card there. Don't worry about the height thing either, you've still got aaaages of growing time. Besides, 5'7" isn't too short anyway, I know a guy who's only 5'4"!