All it feels like some days is that I get stared at, seeing people nudged each other and point not so subtlety at me as I walk past, or overlooked in the queue for the person behind me – again. But then there is the flip side. The too helpful person? Come across one of …
Tag: shopping
Please Blow Away You Gales
So the upper part of the great British Isles have been battered by rain and gales over the last few days and don’t I know about it! Regular readers of HLL will know of my intense, intense hatred of high winds/gales. This weekend’s blustery times left me literally housebound and unable to go about my …
Half-Term Shopping Hell
I made the mistake of going shopping during half-term this week, though I agree this would send the calmest of person into a rage, for me it’s a heart in the mouth moment from entering the store to leaving it. Why? The.Stares. We restricted growth people are used them yes, but when you’ve got a …
Petite Fashion Autumn 2010
I indulged in some retail therapy today and was pleasantly surprised rather than the usual depressed state it leaves me. Being an odd body shape where you fit somewhere between children’s and petite sizes is rather frustrating on the fashion front. I found this morning, that I could get back into an older child size …
Those pesky sliding doors!
Every restricted growth person will know what I’m on about here. Today I went on a Sunday shopping trip (shudder at the mass crowds thought) to one of the local out-of-town retail parks to buy my beau their Christmas present (no I haven’t told them what it is!). My attempt at getting out first thing …
“Do you think you’ll ever stop the stares?”
This question was presented to me the other day and it left me feeling flummoxed. It’s not that I’ve not heard this sort of question in various guises in the past; I think it just hit me, that regardless of all the good intentions of raising awareness of restricted growth, of making us more visible …
24 hours of “fame”
It’s been all about the “you’re small” for the past day. It started at work with a colleague trying ‘explain’ that they don’t see me as small, “just HLL”. As I pointedly pointed out, they wouldn’t say this to any of our other colleagues or friends as it is a given. It was genuine curiosity, …