Atlanta man goes public with LL

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That's your opinion. I believe that if you fix your flaws, it would be even easier to love yourself and gain more confidence, which will in turn make people like you more as a bonus. But the most important thing is to love yourself. If you just become taller and is still a loser with: low confidence, bad style, no visible muscles, no social skills it's barely going to matter becoming taller...

If all your joy in life only comes outside from other peoples acceptance and recognition your're never going to happy.

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Quote from: EndGame on June 30, 2023, 11:31:52 AMI wasn't suggesting all cases of LLT ends up in butchering. Most patients don't want pretty good odds of being ok but rather near certainty of being good.

I get that, what people need to realize though, is that complications, especially with LoN, is common, almost to be expected.

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This depends on the person. If I get this surgery I would never hide it because I have nothing to hide.

If some people say X about me, it's even better, filtering out some bad people is always good.

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Polvoron I agree with you. I think troughout my life as a 167 cm ish guy, I have only gotten like 4 comments about my height, from people who is either talking bs about everyone because they're insecure or people who literally has low IQ. But maybe it's worse if your're shorter than this, since i'm right at the limit where you begin to become abnormally short. At least here in Denmark. But either way I have never meet a decent human being, who had to mention my height...

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Quote from: DanishViking on July 01, 2023, 04:06:26 PMPolvoron I agree with you. I think troughout my life as a 167 cm ish guy, I have only gotten like 4 comments about my height, from people who is either talking bs about everyone because they're insecure or people who literally has low IQ. But maybe it's worse if your're shorter than this, since i'm right at the limit where you begin to become abnormally short. At least here in Denmark. But either way I have never meet a decent human being, who had to mention my height...

I am 167 and I get comments on a regular basis. Pretty sure everybody else who has that height in a western country does as well, because it’s abnormally short.

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Quote from: Height Journey on June 28, 2023, 02:52:24 AMThat article miscalculated and misrepresented his height. He lengthened a total of 14.7cm which is 5.8 inches. So he is a little under 5'11", not 6 feet.

https://imgur.com/a/1LTwZcL

Thank you for posting another example HJ!

Live Life Taller have repeatedly inflated the amount of height their patients gain. It's disgusting and misleading, and once again shows how these Turkish clinics are full of liars that shouldn't be trusted.

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I wouldn't call it abnormally short. Every 10th guy I see on the street has my height. It's like a 180 cm women. It's definitly rare but not like something you haven't seen before.

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And I agree with NailedLegs. The only reason I find it sad that this guy went public is that his sort of promoting LifeLiveTaller, which is one of the worst clinics you could go to...

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Quote from: DanishViking on July 02, 2023, 12:40:22 PMI wouldn't call it abnormally short. Every 10th guy I see on the street has my height. It's like a 180 cm women. It's definitly rare but not like something you haven't seen before.

Every 10th guy is not possible. In countries such as Denmark and Germany (like myself) 167 is in the 5th percentile of height distribution. Which means it’s more like every 20th Guy is your size, which sucks.

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The top two limiting factors stopping short men from getting cosmetic Limb Lengthening is

1) Cost
2) Time

Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, even though we are apparently the "richest" country (See GDP). Even those that don't live paycheck to paycheck, have very little in their savings. ( See this article for more https://fortunly.com/statistics/american-savings-statistics/ ) Point is, very few people will ever have the money for the procedure. Even going to Turkey because you want to cheap out on your legs, 35k is still a lot of money to the overwhelming majority of people. While loans might be possible, I imagine that won't be an easy process....then you have even more debt.

If you do somehow get the cash, then you're still looking at a ~6 month downtime(It could be a lot more) where you can't work since you can't even walk. There's nuance to this of course, since if you work remotely from your computer then you can continue working, or if you get a weight bearing nail then the walking situation won't be as bad(But still bad). But many people can't afford to just not work for several months, even if they do get the money for the initial procedure.

I wouldn't worry too much about its popularity making it inaccessible to us short men that actually need it.

Although, more people aware of the procedure isn't good in the sense that they'll start questioning men more about it....but then I ask myself, jaw fillers, rhinoplasty, and things like that have existed for men,  and women know all about it, yet how often do women ask attractive men with a nice jawline or nice nose if they've had work done? Never. So again I wouldn't worry too much.

I would still keep it a secret personally, because even the people that say "Whatever makes you happy" or "I support your decision" will most of the time still judge you, at least subconsciously. The difficult part is while you can hide it from strangers or maybe people you haven't seen for a decade+, what are you suppose to say to your immediate family? Your mother and father are going to notice, so you can't really hide it from them. "I had my scoliosis fixed", maybe that would work if they were...well I won't say.