Grab That Step-Ladder!

           Hey everybody, so I was at work today thinking about what I wanted to write about and it came to me. I wanted to write about one of the biggest challenges that I had when I was diagnosed with Turners. I was short (of course) and people would make fun of my height and to be honest, that really did a number on my self-confidence and self-esteem. I wanted to become invisible so no one would make fun of how short I was. I spent many nights upset because I had been teased in high school. And looking back now, I realize that if I would have been confident enough to laugh at what the people were saying about me, the fun of teasing me would have been lost and I wouldn't have been teased anymore.
           What prompted this little revelation was the mail. I work as a secretary and when mail comes in, it is part of my job to put the mail in the people's mailboxes who have received said mail. I just started this job yesterday and during my "training time" the mail came in and I was going to put it away. Now there are a lot of people who have mailboxes where I work and some of them are too high for even the tallest secretary in the office to reach without some difficulty (now I am 5'2, and to be honest it's probably more like 5'1 and half), so as you can imagine, they are absolutely impossible for me to reach! There is a step-ladder in one of the rooms that we can use to put the mail up into the highest mailboxes if that is necessary (I haven't had to do this yet, but it's only my second day so who knows when I will need that step-ladder). I had to put mail into a mailbox yesterday that was kinda high up and I couldn't reach it so I had to have another secretary reach it for me because I didn't know where the step-ladder was, which I admit, was kind of embarassing to have to ask for help putting mail way.  
       Now I'm sure you're thinking, "why the heck is she writting about something as boring as the mail?!"...but I have a point, I promise, just stick with me. I realized when I was thinking about the step-ladder situation later in the day, that it shouldn't have been embarassing. I need to learn to embrace the fact that I'm short (which I know is hard to do). And I imagine there is atleast one of you who is struggling with the same confidence and self-esteem issues that I suffered with in high school, and I still do now. I am getting better at dealing with my height, and I have to take it step-by-step and realize that being short isn't the end of the world (it's like one of my favorite quotes says, "I"m not short, I'm fun-sized). In fact my boyfriend is almost a foot taller than I am and I am just the right height that I can stand on a step and he can stand on the floor and we are exactly the right height to kiss without him bending down or me standing on my tip-toes. So I have come to learn to embrace my height, and even love being my size. That is the biggest factor to gaining and keeping your self-confidence, you have to realize that you are perfect the way you are-not matter how tall you are! So to all of you out there with Turners, grab that step-ladder with pride and be proud of the amazing person that you are because good things really do come in small packages!