Do you get mad like me thinking being disabled somehow better than being short?

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That's an absurd post. No, it's not better to be disabled than short.
Actually, one of the good things I've got from my LL experience, other than the height, was to respect and understand the suffering of disabled people because I had to use crutches of almost a year.
It's amazing how we take for granted our ability to reach and move in certain places that are simply out of reach to a disabled person.
Be happy and grateful you are healthy, even though you are short.

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Quote from: BetzLandLiberator on November 04, 2021, 08:24:17 PMThat's an absurd post. No, it's not better to be disabled than short.
Actually, one of the good things I've got from my LL experience, other than the height, was to respect and understand the suffering of disabled people because I had to use crutches of almost a year.
It's amazing how we take for granted our ability to reach and move in certain places that are simply out of reach to a disabled person.
Be happy and grateful you are healthy, even though you are short.

100% What BLL just said!

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Quote from: Sadist on November 04, 2021, 04:49:26 AMis being disabled somehow better than being short?

This is clearly a quantitative (not qualitative) dilemma.
Almost everyone would trade a toe for jumping from 160 to 190 cm. Almost nobody would trade a leg for additional 5 cm.
Everything else is somewhere in between on the scale, and it strongly depends on personal goals.

In addition, almost nobody is using his full athletic potential, and would happily trade some of it, knowing that it would be never used otherwise.