Originally Posted by Polly
In no way did I mean to generalize that people who are shorter than average have globally poor athletic aptitude, that's not what I intended at all, I can see it came across that way, I apologize for that.
Likewise for me. My dd12 isn't the best athlete probably due to lack of confidence when comparing herself to others who are bigger and lack of interest/practice. I do think that it can be somewhat harder to dunk a basketball, for instance, when you are 5' vs. 6', but there are always those who are superior athletes even when they are smaller than those against whom they are playing.

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