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If you were just being polite to another adult...no problem - even admirable and friendly. However you admit you weren't looking at her like an adult.
The smile is not the problem....your viewing someone as less than they are based only on their height is.
It wasn't intentional. I was in a crowd of people, some of them were kids, and when I saw her my brain just processed the cute and small before anything else.
I had a Little Person live upstairs from me for a while. I'd like to say we became friends but there were too many obstacles in the way of that.
Little People are like everyone else in that they're just trying to cope in a world they didn't invent. I suppose anyone could be offended by a smile if they tried hard enough but at that point it's their personal problem, not yours.
With my upstairs neighbor, our interactions were mostly limited to the occasional "Hi" as we passed on the sidewalk. One day a planter box fell off her balcony railing onto my patio below. I retrieved it and set it outside her front door. Unfortunately, I wasn't thinking and placed it in a location she couldn't reach.
And there's the rub, not just with Little People but others who are "different" in some way. They want to be regarded as being just like everyone else, but they're not. And in trying to treat her the same, I inadvertently made things more difficult.
I had a Little Person live upstairs from me for a while. I'd like to say we became friends but there were too many obstacles in the way of that.
Little People are like everyone else in that they're just trying to cope in a world they didn't invent. I suppose anyone could be offended by a smile if they tried hard enough but at that point it's their personal problem, not yours.
With my upstairs neighbor, our interactions were mostly limited to the occasional "Hi" as we passed on the sidewalk. One day a planter box fell off her balcony railing onto my patio below. I retrieved it and set it outside her front door. Unfortunately, I wasn't thinking and placed it in a location she couldn't reach.
And there's the rub, not just with Little People but others who are "different" in some way. They want to be regarded as being just like everyone else, but they're not. And in trying to treat her the same, I inadvertently made things more difficult.
That last statement is a total cop out for being thoughtless.
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