@TakoAlice8 I am on the taller average side of the height slide (5’7”/170cm) for a woman in Sweden, and while I have had insecurities regarding my height, I fail to see it fully correlated to my fetish… I guess at times my wish to be shorter could be connected to how I’d like to feel a little bit more tiny and less ”clumsy” in some situations, but otherwise I guess I am quite content just existing as I am and then using my fantasies to really go wild with size differences
I myself have also never noticed my fetish to in any way ”interfere” with my preferences for a partner, sure I imagine a hell of a tall guy to swoop me off my feet (with just a hand of his ) but in real life I’ve been in love with, and admired guys shorter than me, taller than me, and men as tall as me.
But I know many have discussed this phenomenon of wanting to be their own opposite in height on tumblr, especially regarding needing comfort and safety, or out of a need of feeling wanted and needed. Some have called it height dysphoria over there. So I believe there definitely are people whose desires are driven by wishes to be vastly different from how they are in the real world.