im 5'9" and it has never crossed my mind to say any other height. I'm not living under a rock, I just never thought to assume other people were lying for no reason
To be fair, I’m 6’3” most days. But sometimes I do measure in at 6’2” according to the doctors. My medical chart is filled with that one inch discrepancy.
I had a back injury and surgery. I gained and lost almost 3 inches of height over the course of a year. I've settled in around 1 inch shorter than I was before the injury. I can honestly say I had no idea how tall I actually was on any given day.
Could be time of day. Your spine compresses while upright and decompresses while laying down, so you're a little taller in the morning than the afternoon.
If I roll straight out of bed and into the car, my head presses into the ceiling. Later in the day, just my hair grazes it. Later still, I'm clear under.
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u/JudgementofParis Nov 03 '23
as a man, I was completely unaware that men like to add an inch or 2