I was born with feet in the 1st percentile of the population and they stayed that way even despite getting taller. Now every shoe shopping experience is awkward af.

  • gon [he]@lemm.ee
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    I used to know a guy they called “Princess” because he had slightly smaller feet than average. He was a little short, very manly beard, muscular frame, deep voice. His feet weren’t even notably small or anything; he played football and you couldn’t really tell they were anything to write home about at all. Because they weren’t. He wore a size 40 I think, that’s like size 7 US. And yet: Princess.

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      Yes I sympathize. Kids and teenagers like to pick up on any kind of difference so you can imagine what they made of my size 3 feet even at a time when I was struggling to come to terms with it. It all seems stupid in retrospect like my feet aren’t deformed I’m just small pawed and really only a few inches smaller than “normal” feet but at the time it was the worst thing in the world