Quote from: zaozari on February 16, 2022, 08:58:23 PMI got real good jobs and was never discriminated altough of course girls only care about me after a while, after getting to know me better. But I had 3 fantastic girlfriends, around 3cm taller without heels (which they used sometimes and I liked, contrary to that ex president of France, Sarkozy, that ''obliged'' the wife to wear flat shoes). I lost all 3 fantastic (caring, sensual, inteligent, etc.) girlfriends because I was becoming neurotic, not because they changed to a taller guy! They just saw something more in me than less 20 cm of flesh & bone.
In one job I competed with multiple testing with 5.000 guys and was among the 80 first (''winners'') for the position, so I was hired with high pay and benefits.
I just feel short and don't like for example to have dificult eye contact with the waiter in a counter or in a discotec full of people.
Maybe I am very lucky or live in a very modern or tolerant country. And maybe I made myself respected with other arguments diferent than height, when I could still fight neurosis. But height neurosis in me is a totally internal issue. There was a time I didn't feel neurosis.
Well, yours is an opinion, I respect, but since it's about me, let me repeat a part of I wrote above: doing LL...
...WOULD CHANGE EVERYTHING! I WOULD BE A HAPPY GUY WITHOUT NEUROSIS, no matter what everybody else thinks here. I know myself and have a great sense of self introspection, social values and, if I may say so, a "particular" sense of risk for things that I consider as allmost criminal (personal free opinion) like Paley's option 4, 5, 6, ....10 (!) or WTF he wants to call it. I wouldn't do it FOR FREE. I would/will grow maybe to 159cm with tibias done, to 165/166cm with femurs and with fantastic elevator, non weird shoes that I use,I would reach 171 cm! Think what you want, but that is more than enough for me. We all have common and also different issues here, that's natural, we are diferent people. So, just don't say, because you simply don't know: ''Adding 10 cm with lifts will at least make him on just “very hard mode”.''
I tried to search and it seems you are 180 cm tall...I could say you are a fool if you are 180 cm tall, if you are going to do CLL, the only countries in the world whose average is more than 180 are the 4 nordic countries, the Netherlands, Croatia, Montenegro, and Bosnia Herzegovina. Average in the US, UK, France, Italy, .. is around 175/176 cm. And you are going to spend a fortune, one or two years for a still uncompleted recovery and risk your sense of balance, your healthy biomechanics and even risking thrombosis by cloting in the surgery? But all this is ME thinking if I was in your place, as the ''exercice'' you did putting yourself in my shoes. This is just to let clear my position, I don't know if you have specific motivations to do LL, so don't take it personally, please.
Technically speaking, I cannot figure out his intentions of 'harshing' in his statements or 'helping' you elaborate your different situations between before LL and post LL. It seems to me that they are really offensive and nerve-wracking. I know 160-169cm is still not a good height in his perspectives but that doesn't mean he can deliberately picture what you are actually experiencing with that height, not to mention all that he pictured run counter to what you actually experience.
Moreover, there is a hearsay that US has 'giantism' that is seducing/inducing ppl to worship heights like 6'5, 6'7 and plus and I think maybe that kind of ideology is being spread out all over the Caucasian countries so maybe that's the main reason why some tall guys, at least in common ppl's perspectives, are still contemplating on LL.
But yeah I'd admire your excellent skills and personalities except height neurosis which is very understandable to me so that you can beat so much guys over your occupations and tap 3 taller girls than you LOL. That is very unheard of. So I think you should add those stuffs into your future LL diaries!