The Adorable Complex

Do you ever feel like you will never out grow the "adorable" stage of your life? That stage where your relatives and other adults often call you a "cute little thing?" If you answered yes, you might be facing the adorable complex in your life.

The vertically impaired often are wrangled in with the status of endless adorableness. It's not inherently a bad thing, but it can get old if it is over used and determines the way that people see you. For instance, co-workers and classmates might not take you quite as seriously because of the lack of height. When you are trying to be serious, and trying to get an important point across, it might not be taken as such because to some of the taller people that you may be talking to might compare you to the persuasive five year old trying to get the cookie before eating dinner.

I have definitely had that experience. I have worked in radio broadcasting for the past two years, and once when we were having a staff meeting, I was trying to tell my co-workers the importance of an issue that had developed at the station. Some were proud that I held my ground and stood for the cause, a few were absolutely terrified of me, and others thought I was absolutely adorable trying to get people to listen to me. That's the down side of being short and adorable, but there is a good side, and in some cases it can make up for the down side of things.

For one thing you don't have too try very hard to be cute, as long as you know what to say and what personality you have to work with. You can be short and sweet, and as long as you stick with acting that way around your friends, you are absolutely golden. People love the short sweet person, and basically always want them around, because they are so nice with pretty much everyone. People think they are fun and cute most of the time, and honestly make up isn't even required to accomplish this. As in most of American culture, it can help, but is not required.

You can also go the short and sassy route, and people will generally pick you out from the rest of the crowd. I don't promise that everyone will love you for it, but they will know your name for sure. You don't have to be overly sassy to make this work, but the more you are, the more ground you will stand on, and be less prone to the comparison of the five year old wanting the cookie before dinner. If you are sassy all the time that is. If you dabble in both you will almost always be compared to the five year old wanting the cookie because people have seen your sweet side, and don't understand the ground you stand on. The sassy approach takes a little more work, because you have to gain the ground to stand upon it, and in most cases you have to dress and act for the part.

If you are short and trying to figure out how to fit in, then think about the kind of person you are and where you want to go in life, and determine the method you want to go about. For instance if you are planning a career in a service industry or something where you don't necessarily need a ton of power, then I would go the sweet route, but if you plan to be the head executive of a large corporation, I would go sassy all the way.

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