This is my personal experience, and it may be different for others, but I just wanted to share.

I’m a 5’5 manlet living in europe. Although I always was one of the tallest in my family, I soon found out the world was different lol.

I was confident but thin, short, nerdy and a loner, so my social situation wasn’t ideal. Eventually it got to me and I started losing confidence altogether because of all the shitty aspects of my life.

Eventually (thanks to TRP), I left home at 26 and started lifting. Got part of my confidence back when I started getting bigger, and I got the rest back (skills, intelligence, etc) when I realized I had never missed it, it was just “dormant” because of all the shitty situations in my life.

And here’s where height comes in: things had changed but I was still a fucking manlet. I didn’t see myself as that, but people wouldn’t let me forget it. I still remember when a 4’10 girl at work got all rile up when I refuse to do her job for her and started telling al, my female coworkers how “I was the damn Mexican midget that wouldn’t help her...”

In social situations, most of the time I was the shortest (women incuded lol). Height per se didn’t affect me, but it forced me to work harder on trying to get people’s respect, chances with women, position, etc.

Eventually I said “fuck it” and decided to cheat, and started trying out lift insoles or timberlands-like shoes. I immediatly hooked up to them and this is my experience so far:

Confidence: do not kid yourself, it’s not about confience. If you try to be taller in order to be more confident in yourself, you are doomed. I found out that in spite of my progress, I still had to deal with people “looking down” on me for trying to be “more” than what a 5.5 manlet deserved. Somget your confidence first, or don’t even try this.

Adding 2” to my height in most situations reverted that. 5’7 isn’t hughe lol, not at all, but a muscular 5’7 who’s aggressive and confident is way, way better than a 5’5, hard-ass wannabe.

Women: bear in mind that everyone has that extra inch or so because of shoes or boots or whatever, especially women. Being 5’7 allowed me to be the same height or higher than many of them, compared to before. Was it fake? Sure, but so were they lol. The difference is they don’t think “oh I’m taller than him but I’m wearing boots so I will give him a chance”. Fuck it lol, you are a midget to them, that’s the end of it.

On that regards, never had any issues in bed because of this, and there’s a good reason: I was bulked and muscular. Taking my shoes off with a woman who’s my height while she’s grabbing my bicep hoping for me to jump her is no issue at all lol. Even if she’s an inch taller, she doesn’t give two shits once she’s into you.

The key is not to lie, to her or yourself.

Men: all men go around with a subconscious idea of how much worth they are compared to the other men they meet, and height/body/looks are all taken into account.

Got a guy who once tried to verbally bully me at work because he was 6’0 but sucked at his job while I was a 5’5 thin midget who used to get special treatment for being too nerdy at his job. This was 6 years ago: with an extra 70 pounds of mass and slightly taller height, things would have been different.

tl;dr: it’s not about making yourself taller, it’s about improving on one more aspect of yourself. The important thing is not to overdo it and not to deceive yourself into believeing you need that to succeed, aka, don’t count on it to feel better. Use it as a tool, nothing more.

I realized I didn’t need it to feel good but people were still treating me differently, which required an extra effort on my part. I lowered that extra work by slightly increasing my height, which coupled with a bigger body, confidence and better version of myself did the trick.

In my experience men can add 2” without worrying about trying to look taller, while also getting the positive effect of a height boost (in regards to others).

Could I have pulled it off the same being 5’5? Probably, but I decided not to. Other guys here may not agree, and I think I pulled this off, in part, becuase I was “lucky” enough to be 5’5. Anything shorted may not have worked...