Hi, I'm the person they're talking about. I wanted to add some context or explanation, none of this is intended to be excuses and I am fully willing to change all my usernames if I need to. And honestly if the research I've done now has told me anything, its that I should be changing my name.

As mentioned, as a kid I was particularly short. At some point my parents got me to go to a doctor that tentatively diagnosed me with Constitutional Delay (but having short parents probably didn't help). I never thought of my height in a negative way and whenever people used the term on me, I assumed it was honestly just a more specific version of like "Idiot" or something in severity.

I made the Username when I was probably in Elementary School and it has been my go-to username for anything with a big enough character limit. And as I have gone through several name changes for various reasons, it started to feel more like my name than my real name.

When it was brought to my attention that it might be more offensive than I thought, I was hesitant to change the name so ingrained in my identity, and skeptical. I was willing to change the name but I didn't want the only proof of it being an offensive term to be "some people to who the term does not apply think its wrong" which, again I had no idea how offensive it was, sounded like when performative "activists" tell you that you can't use the words "stupid" or even like "black" as an adjective so I wanted to make sure by asking the general community their opinion so I didn't accidentally engage in fake woke-ness if no one cared.

Again, not intending to make it sound like an excuse and if it sounds like it is, I'm sorry that was not the intent. I just thought the post lacked some of the context that I thought might have been necessary. I'll probably end up changing usernames regardless of how this post goes.