Don't worry TOO much about looks of proportions.

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Quote from: Sweden on August 10, 2015, 10:15:36 PMYour friend must think your weird 

Measure his arms as well. Everything on him will be longer than your measurements.


Your starting height was greater than mine. I can come visit you and we can measure our arms and everything. Then you'll see that I'm taller than you ONLY when standing up. You'll probably reach farther up than me.

I'm in Stockholm, so it's close to everything.

Yeah it was an odd conversation, I also measured my dads arms actually they are 78CM each -mine are 75CM. I live in Uppsala and I'm visiting Stockholm the day after tomorrow, it might be interesting to meet up.

EDIT- "My starting height is", I haven't done the surgery and I'm still a little bit on the fence.

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Sweden- I agree with my friend having longer arms but it's a fact that his waist was at least 3-4 inches higher than mine. Meaning my TORSO was only 1-2 inches shorter than his. Out of 5 inches of height he had on me, 3 was in legs. Point being if I was 5'5 with 3 inches in my legs, I would look perfectly normal standing next to him. No non-LLer would generally point out proportions or even care enough to note that something's amiss.

I'm not talking about the arms. I'm talking about the torso+legs which constitutes your standing height.

But about the arms, my dad is 5'4 and we have equally long arms. Maybe my arms will look small when I'm 5'5 but not enough for anyone to point it out. And if they do... quite frankly.. I don't really give a fk.

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Well I feel the exact same way as you do but I'm just wondering if I can ever live with having shorter in comparison to my height. It will all depend on my Ape Index sure, but I'm just curious what the physical and psychology effects would be.

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Quote from: AlucardZ on August 11, 2015, 05:26:36 PMWell I feel the exact same way as you do but I'm just wondering if I can ever live with having shorter in comparison to my height. It will all depend on my Ape Index sure, but I'm just curious what the physical and psychology effects would be.

My legs are a bit shorter anyway so I don't care. I don't think anyone will notice 5cm even if your legs are perfectly in the median range of that chart- I'll try 3 inches(8cm) without hesitation about proportions.

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Quote from: Penguinn on August 11, 2015, 06:26:02 PMMy legs are a bit shorter anyway so I don't care. I don't think anyone will notice 5cm even if your legs are perfectly in the median range of that chart- I'll try 3 inches(8cm) without hesitation about proportions.

If you don't mind sharing how long are your femurs and tibias?

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Quote from: theuprising on August 11, 2015, 06:31:13 PMIf you don't mind sharing how long are your femurs and tibias?

Here. http://imgur.com/qfVtOIw

The lengthened femurs don't look bad. The lengthened tibias look absolutely horrifying.

What I'm really worried about is my arms/hands being smaller. Not worried about torso/legs proportions. (aesthetically speaking)

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Quote from: Penguinn on August 11, 2015, 06:36:52 PMHere. http://imgur.com/qfVtOIw

The lengthened femurs don't look bad. The lengthened tibias look absolutely horrifying.

What I'm really worried about is my arms/hands being smaller. Not worried about torso/legs proportions. (aesthetically speaking)

It's hard to accurately gauge your proportions as your wearing a shirt and I can't tell where your waist is as you tucked the shirt into your underpants. The arm/Hand issue will come up but at 5'2 I think it's understandable to want 8cm on femur. Does it affect things like being in a comfortable Position while driving being 5'2? I know People are shorter in India but I imagine daily Tasks could be annoying at that height.

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Quote from: theuprising on August 11, 2015, 06:56:35 PMIt's hard to accurately gauge your proportions as your wearing a shirt and I can't tell where your waist is as you tucked the shirt into your underpants. The arm/Hand issue will come up but at 5'2 I think it's understandable to want 8cm on femur. Does it affect things like being in a comfortable Position while driving being 5'2? I know People are shorter in India but I imagine daily Tasks could be annoying at that height.

I purposely tucked my shirt exactly at the waist level. So that's my waist.

I'm 17 and it would have been a year before I start driving, now 2 years thanks to LL. Get dat 5'5 printed on my driver's license. But I've sat in a driving seat and no, it's not a problem at all. I imagine driving is only a problem for someone under 5 feet.

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Judging by this picture, I don't understand why the majority recommend to lengthen tibia.

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Quote from: Keep Growing on August 12, 2015, 08:13:28 AMJudging by this picture, I don't understand why the majority recommend to lengthen tibia.

My femurs are relatively shorter. I'm sure it's not the same for everyone.

Also those doing externals have to do tibia.