Gentle
Giant Syndrome: When a person feels superior toward anyone who is
smaller than they are. They equate physical size with intelligence,
experience, and status, and they actually believe that this measurement
is real. People with Gentle Giant Syndrome often feel as if they are
going out of their way just by treating someone smaller with normal
courtesy. They often believe that only those who are their height
or taller are as capable and intelligent as they are. They do things
such as ignore another person's personal space; talk to one person as if
they are a "fellow elite" and not to the smaller person standing right
next to them; talk through a person's head to another as if they aren't
even there; demand that a smaller person submit to their wishes;
condescend to smaller persons; deny "good business" practices to smaller
persons.
~M.Black
