Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : I’m 6’6 and whilst this might not be crazy tall it still seems to be enough to warrant a situation where almost everywhere I go a stranger will approach me just to ask how tall I am. I can almost guarantee that every other week or so people that I have never met before will either make a passing comment about my height or ask me questions. 

Now I’ve had my fair share of abuse over the years from people who have tried to ridicule me for my height and it’s been pretty rough sometimes. People can be mean and I’ve certainly beat myself up about it in the past. There’s been times where people have called me names and I’ve caught people out before where they’re just staring at me and it makes me feel really uncomfortable. 

As I’ve gotten older and gained more confidence I now carry myself with a lot more self respect than when I was just a kid. But it’s still incredibly infuriating to have a stranger approach me and say things like ‘Oh my god you’re massive! How tall are you!?’ 

In the worse case scenario people can be really rude to me and it feels like they’re trying to make me feel small by pointing out how I’m either too tall or ridiculously tall etc. I’m a pretty self conscious guy and the attention isn’t really wanted and sometimes I’ll react really sarcastically to the people questioning me. I get that I can stand out and more often than not I suppose people are just being inquisitive, sometimes people are friendly about it but it still feels kind of weird to me. It’s like people have no sense of boundaries or how to be respectful, but I don’t know if I’m looking at this all wrong. 

For example, today I’m in the shop with my girlfriend and just as I’m about to pay this guy walks straight up to me and goes “How tall are you!?”
I look at the cashier and then look back at the guy and go “8 foot 5 inches...isn’t that crazy!!?” 
He just looked blankly at me and walks off like I’ve offended him. Then I feel doubly uncomfortable because firstly he made a comment on my height I didn’t ask for and secondly I seemed to annoy him with my answer. 

I don’t mind people approaching me and speaking to me if it’s a proper conversation. I’d quite like a “hello how are you?” that would be kind of nice I’d imagine. But to straight up come at me and ask questions about how I look feels unfair. I wouldn’t approach someone that’s overweight and ask them how much they weigh so why do people come up to me and ask me how tall I am?

Am I looking at situations like this all wrong? Should I just expect that because I’m tall people will want to know exactly how tall I am? Am I the asshole for not responding positively to peoples questions?