Spare a thought for King Charles I, he was 5ft 3in at the start of his reign but only 4ft 2in at the end of it. You are a giant in comparison.

Don't matter what you was, more important is what you is.

As a lad I was the biggest in the class… and I hated being the biggest.

Team photo, at the back…why couldn’t I sit on a chair in the front, why when my smaller mates caused the same amount of noise/trouble I would get the telling off.. When the little kid fell and cried, everyone felt sorry… me.. I was a big sissy if I cried. The boys two years above me school always wanted to fight me, because I was the same size as them, but not as tough… so I made them look good.

How I wished I was smaller like my class mates…. Yes they got away murder, when they were naughty, cheeky monkeys they were… and all the girls liked the smaller boys as they were funny…. And the older boys didn’t fight or pick on them.

But things did change, I carried on growing, and used my size as an advantage, well I also learnt a few skills too. So yes, being tall from my teens to now I think is better than being smaller.

Did you wish you were taller… or shorter…. Are there more advantages being tall/small ?

I was not only the tallest in my class from an early age, I was also the one to be seen first by all the teaching staff and therefore was the first to be nominated for everything.
By the time I was 11 going on 12, I was rapidly approaching 6' and by 16 and thinking about leaving school I was a gnats under 6'6".
Contrary to your experience, I found nearly all the girls preferred a tall chap to a shorter one. Although in the end and after extensively playing the field, I was smitten by my wife who at her tallest was only 4'11"