so, I was supposed to be about average height (projected to be 5’9). My father is 5’10 and my mother is 5’3. I turned out barely 5’6, which I attribute to a combination of being avoiding healthy foods my mom would make, not being active enough and lack of sleep. My fraternal grandfather is 6’0, haven’t met my fraternal grandmother, but my aunt on that side is taller than me so maybe she is taller too. My maternal grandfather is very short now because of scoliosis but apparently used to be 5’10, and my maternal grandmother was maybe 5’3 (same as my mom). So being tall isn’t really in my genetics, but neither is being really short.
Interestingly my half brother is already taller than me, about the same height as his bio father who is only 5’8. My brother was kind of a picky eater as well but he has always very sporty so that makes sense.
Since me being 5’6 is more a result of my childhood than my genetics, would this mean that my children would be predisposed to being short like me? Or would my genetics carry them over to an average height hopefully. I have a fear of having a son who I would submit to being short and have him face the same kind of major self esteem issues I’ve struggled with off and on my whole life.
Epigenetics is real, you can affect your dna, but doubt it affects something as dominant as height to any significant degree. I think your kids won't have a short genes. They'll likely have your intended genetical height genes and be fine.
U may have been naturally meant to be 5'6 / 5'7, seems about avg between mum and dad, and mom's gene expressed more. Many ppl think they stunted themselves but honestly not more than an inch even with bad sleeping. It's mostly genetics. U gotta either be in ethiopia and eating at thousand calorie deficit for decades or bruce wayne and pull all nighters for years at age 10 or somethjng
My mom identifies as 5'4 and my dad 5'6.
Not sure what their actual heights are, but it seems my mom's height usually appears to be my height to a bit shorter (never taller), and my dad's apparent height changes from my height to a bit taller.
According to "mid-parental height", I should be expected to reach 5'7.5, but there's no way that's happening. Even taking off an inch from both would make it 5'6.5, which I probably won't reach either. However, I saw my grandma on my dad's side yesterday and she looks 4'10~4'11. So just my luck I could have gotten all her height.
My dad's mom: 4'10-4'11
My dad's dad: 5'8
My mom's mom: 5'5.5 (self-reported but probably less, I remember being as tall or taller at 5'3~5'4 but it's possible she's shrunk over the years)
My mom's dad: ?? but probably taller than my mom's mom
Honestly you have bigger problems to worry about than your future hypothetical children.
That being said, I can almost guarantee that you were nowhere close to beating me in terms of sleep deprivation and depression.
Quote from: Bruce Wayne on October 01, 2020, 03:14:12 AMHonestly you have bigger problems to worry about than your future hypothetical children.
That being said, I can almost guarantee that you were nowhere close to beating me in terms of sleep deprivation and depression.
I fell asleep at 10 something and got up at 7 from around 9-12. My parents at that time made me go to bed at 8:30, which was so early I would literally get bored while trying to fall asleep.
That's between 8 and 9 hours of sleep for a child. Do you think that's enough to stunt growth?
Quote from: HobbesTheDog on October 01, 2020, 04:35:21 AMI fell asleep at 10 something and got up at 7 from around 9-12. My parents at that time made me go to bed at 8:30, which was so early I would literally get bored while trying to fall asleep.
That's between 8 and 9 hours of sleep for a child. Do you think that's enough to stunt growth?
Try 0-2 hours.
Quote from: ghkid2019 on October 01, 2020, 12:56:58 AMEpigenetics is real, you can affect your dna, but doubt it affects something as dominant as height to any significant degree. I think your kids won't have a short genes. They'll likely have your intended genetical height genes and be fine.
Interesting you say that. I believe my dad was supposed to be taller actually, but when he was about 15 maybe he had a serious medical crisis and almost died. I forget the details but I think his pancreas burst and they gave him a medication he ended up being very allergic too. After that, he stopped growing apparently even though he was supposed to grow a bit more. My growth plates fused right around that age. I wonder if that affected when my growth plates fused. Either way though, I was small my entire life as far as I can remember compared to my classmates whereas if my dad was 5’10 at 15 it sounds like he wasn’t.
The men in my family are a few inches taller than me. My wingspan is a few inches more than my height.
My mum told me a story about when I was a baby trying to drink milk I sometimes bit very hard to the point that it hurt her alot. So apparently she couldnt feed me properly for like a week and I would refuse drinking from a bottle. This is a large factor in my mind because I dont know how often this happened and if she fed me optimally.
Quote from: Tengo on October 01, 2020, 11:35:44 AMThe men in my family are a few inches taller than me. My wingspan is a few inches more than my height.
My mum told me a story about when I was a baby trying to drink milk I sometimes bit very hard to the point that it hurt her alot. So apparently she couldnt feed me properly for like a week and I would refuse drinking from a bottle. This is a large factor in my mind because I dont know how often this happened and if she fed me optimally.
I measured my wingspan and found that my wingspan is short for my height right now (5’5.5”). Unless I measured wrong it’s about 5’3. My arms look a bit short on me though so that would make sense. My mother is 5’3 and has short limbs, and my arms seem to be only a bit longer than hers. What’s weird though is while I have small hands, I have big feet for my size. My girlfriend is 4’11 and my hands are only barely bigger than hers. I’ve also had times when short girls (like 5’2) will compared hand sizes with me and their hands were bigger than mine. But with feet I wear shoe sizes 9 to 10, with my feet being bigger or at least about same size than some of my friends who are like 5’10-6’0.
I seem to have really weird proportions. My wingspan being short makes me not want to do too much LL (5’8 max), to not make it even shorter in relation to my body. Not the end of the world though since I don’t think people notice wingspan as much. There are lots of NBA with surprisingly small wingspans, and also Henry Cavill has a tiny one for his size as well and I don’t think anyone looks at him funny. I did research on wingspans and found a distribution chart from study conducted in I think Thailand and the shortest relative wingspan on the chart was about 4 inches shorter than their standing height. Human variation.
No one cares about wingspan the only people that care about wingspan is NBA draft and LL forum proportion rītards no one cares abt it in real life, given you don't have an actual wingspan deformity like dwarfism
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