I'm also 15 years older, I don't know if the cultural attitudes about this have ever really been different, though. I think I was kind of oblivious to it. In middle school/high school I used to give myself goofy names on IRC referencing how tall I am bc it was unique and something I was proud of
I don't have a good answer to the question of what experiences an unusually tall female adolescent can have that will influence them to feel one way or the other about it. In my case, I owe a lot of my confidence to my dad, and my family only discussing my crazy growth spurt positively/neutrally
I wonder if it had to do with being "terminally online" as a teen in an era when most kids weren't. I went to an art school and was surrounded by fellow nerds, and then I'd go online and be surrounded by even more nerds. Each of us had something that made us different, and that was good, not bad.
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