Hi. I am about to start my Senior year in High School and have not grown since I was 14. My parents are 5'5 (dad) and 5'2 (mom). I know they are short but I have so many friends who are taller than both of their short parents. Do I have any hope? I really do not want to be short as an adult. 

Most of the time it is taller women feeling social anxiety when it comes to dating short guys like us. How do you go about helping them ease that feeling of constantly thinking about what others think of them?

I would like to know how they make actors look taller in the movies. In Collateral with Tom Cruise, him and Jamie Foxx look about the same height. There is no way they shot ever scene with lifts or with low camera angles since Foxx has 5 inches on Cruise. So how do they make this work?

I knowthey use

∙ Lifts

∙ Low camera angles

∙ Digging ditches

What are some of the other tricks they use?

i found this site through reddit and it seems like there is a bunch of men on here who think their height is holding them back. i usually date tall men but i have a guy that i work with who is around 5'3 and he gets a lot of dates and people respect him at work. you want to know why? its because he has a lot of confidence. women and people all over love confidence. instead of complaining about how short you are you should dig deep within and work on things you can change. confidence is everything. 

From Wikipedia:

Robert Bernard Reich (/ˈraɪʃ/;[1] born June 24, 1946) is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

Reich is currently Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government[2] and professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University. He has also been a contributing editor of The New Republic, The American Prospect (also chairman and founding editor), Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Reich is a political commentator on programs including Hardball with Chris Matthews, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CNBC's Kudlow & Company, and APM's Marketplace. In 2008, Time magazine named him one of the Ten Best Cabinet Members of the century,[3] and The Wall Street Journal in 2008 placed him sixth on its list of the "Most Influential Business Thinkers".[4] He was appointed a member of President-elect Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board.[5]

He has published 14 books, including the best-sellers The Work of Nations, Reason, Supercapitalism, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, and a best-selling e-book, Beyond Outrage. He is also chairman of Common Cause and writes his own blog about the political economy at Robertreich.org.[6] The Robert Reich – Jacob Kornbluth film Inequality for All won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.[7][8]

I came across this site while on Twitter. There are a ton of PUA and dating forums, but I came here because its for short guys like myself. First thanks for having a site like this! 

Whenever I go to clubs or lounges I freak out and stammer when talking to women. Sometimes I may score a phone number but my friends say I don't have confidence. How do I start conversations with women and be smooth at the same time?  I love being short honestly so I have no problem with that but know that it could be a double whammy that I try to talk to a woman stammer and be short.

Do you have any tips that could help me out?

I'm pretty short and did the old bump up your height trick and sure enough received more responses. If I put my actual height I get nothing. I have heard of short guys who had luck with OLD and since I don't know any personally I figured I'd ask you what you did to score dates.

I know I am short but I was on break today for lunch and this woman called my best friend short and he is about 5'10 which I think is above average. The girl a friend of ours is 5'3ish give or take a few cm and insisted that anything under 6'1 is short! Clearly she's not playing with a full deck but it got my friend and I to thinking what constitutes as tall, average or short. We came up with this chart and based it on how people treated friends of ours and how girls respond to them. Tell me what you think

5'-5'2: extremely short. women will not go near you unless they are morbidly obese and unattractive

5'3-5'4: very short - unless you have a lot of money most women wouldn't touch you and if they do they wouldn't admit it

5'5-5'6: where you start being tormented for your height. women will only date you if you are supererior in every other to anyone taller or have a special skill

5'7'-5'8: women will tolerate you but you will not get any points for height. you need to be a fighter or have a chiseled physique to get respect from other men

5'9-5'11 - you are average and on a level playing field

6'-6'2: ideal. women want you, go after you and you get points for being tall. you are societies embodiment of masculinity

6'3-6'4: better than ideal. women who are taller than 5'7 will fight over you

6'5+: extremely tall. this is where your height can start working against you