Hannah Whitlock has spent more than fifteen years in community and relationships publishing, on the unglamorous question that most dating apps never bother to answer: how do people the mainstream overlooks actually meet someone?
She founded Midget Singles after a close friend, a little person, showed her what dating looked like from the other side of an app: the fetish messages, the disbelief, the people who matched only to ask invasive questions. It was not a dating experience. It was an endurance test.
She built Midget Singles to be the opposite. The premise is simple. Little people, people with dwarfism and short singles deserve a place where their height is the least interesting thing about them, and where the people who are sincerely drawn to them can show up without the circus.
"The thing people get wrong about dating as a little person is that they treat the height as the headline. It is not. It is context, the same way anyone's job or hometown is context. The members who do well here are the ones who lead with who they actually are, and the matches who do well are the ones who were paying attention to that. We built the site so that the awkward part is already handled, and you can get on with the good part."Hannah Whitlock, Founder
Hannah is clear that she is an ally rather than a member of the community she serves. She leans on the lived experience of the members and advisers around her rather than borrowing a story that is not hers. That honesty is part of how the site is run: no assumed expertise, no speaking over the people the platform exists to serve.
As editor she sets the tone for everything the site publishes: warm, direct, adult, and free of pity. No "brave", no "despite", no medical lecture. Practical writing for people who already know exactly who they are and want to meet someone good.
Height is context, not character. The site is built around the full person, not the physical characteristic.
No one should have to manage their identity on a dating platform. Directness is kinder than ambiguity.
Active moderation and genuine safety features are not extras. They are the minimum a decent platform owes its members.
A good partner is relaxed in the world. That applies to height difference as much as to anything else.
Hannah writes all the editorial content on this site, covering dating advice, language and terminology, safety, and practical guidance for little people and the people who want to date them. Her focus is on being useful rather than reassuring: concrete, non-preachy, and written for adults who do not need their hand held.
