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.
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.
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.
wow I actually just looked up the proper way to measure wingspan, by stretching your arms sideways against a wall and measuring how high your hand goes up the wall and my wingspan is a lot closer to my height, maybe even a tiny bit taller. It’s weird though because my arms look short to me in relation to my body, but that could just be my own dysphoria. I probably just compare myself to people with much longer wingspans in comparison to their bodies. I need to stop doing that, don’t want to be obsessive.
not considering it, especially now, but aren’t there arm lengthening surgeries as well though? My goal is 5’8-5’9 which would then make my wingspan short but still within the normal deviation which I am okay with.
I mean given your mom is the female equivalent of a 6’0 or 6’1 man and your dad is the male equivalent of about a 5’2 female I guess there would be a lot of variety in your genetics. Were your siblings more active than you? Did they sleep more than you?
I have a friend who’s parents are 4’11 (mom) and like 5’6 (dad), they all lived in El Salvador until my friend was about 12 then they immigrated over here. His older brother is randomly 5’10 which definitely is not a height anyone would have expected him to get to given his genetics. Meanwhile my friend says he’s 5’7 but I’m pretty sure he’s closer to 5’6 and his twin brother who I haven’t met myself is apparently around the same height. You can’t really account for things like this. Maybe somewhere in their genetics there are taller genes but for some reason only the taller brother got them.
FYI kind of funny to see the name Yung Gud around here. Pretty sure the real Yung Gud is super tall like 6’4
Guys I know I opened this thread by saying I was supposed to be 5’9 but only ended up just under 5’6. But actually I asked my mom and she said that my growth chart, which was done when I was about 7 or so, actually estimated that I was going to be 5’7, just an inch taller than I was supposed to be instead. I don’t know if that makes me feel better or worse. On hand I didn’t miss out as much height as I thought, but on another I was always gonna this short basically.
Also my mom pointed out that my grandpa on my dads side has very short legs just like me, but is 6’0. Genetics is definitely weird is the moral of this thread.
Quote from: 10cmOnTibiaOrGTFO on February 12, 2021, 06:22:17 PMim not the one who got his legs lengthened and traded health for a couple cm 
what is your purpose for even being on this forum? I only ever see you going on demeaning rants about how women are mindless and stupid on random discussions. What is the point of you’re going congesting threads with your incel theories and ting on people for doing what literally the sole purpose of this entire forum is for.
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