Hi all, I'm new here and this is my first post, but I'm not new by any means to LL's concept and having massive body dysmorphia because of my stature. I've lurked on this forum for a while, and I wish I joined sooner. I'm more active on r/short but any serious talk about LL is shut down immediately. I'd love for this forum to be my main venting place alongside advice and tips because I always see a lot of genuine support.
For starters, I'm a 5'7 (170 cm) 24 year old man and I've had bad body issues with myself for years, despite lifting, working out, eating healthy while studying in college, all that. To the point where it's a downward spiral with suicidal thoughts because I am so uncomfortable with my own body. More specifically, I'm a gay man and it causes me immense grief that I'm not big and masculine enough for other men. That I can always become muscular and "big", but without the tallness factor, I am always at a disadvantage because I can't and will never compete with this ideal standard of masculinity. That's where my rabbit hole into LL began a few years ago.
Planning for LL in the 2030's seriously motivates me to study my ass off and get into my good-paying career in tech to save up for LL. It's what makes me click and it's fantastic motivation for me. I hope by the time the next decade rolls around, the surgery has become much safer and less painful than it is now? I hope to get to 5'10 or 5'11, gaining 7-10 cm from what I am now. But I have serious doubts about LL because since I lift weights and I've been wanting to get into MMA and boxing. Is 7-10 cm too much? Will I have to choose between one or the other? Building/MMA or becoming taller? Or I could do LL, recover for a few years, then get back into intense sports? I know with even the most successful LL surgeries, you'll only gain back 90% of your legs at best? I dunno if anyone else has a similar situation with me, having to choose between LL or combat sports. Or has anyone here done LL and does intensive sports that are demanding on the legs?
It just sucks that I am really uncomfortable with own self no matter what I do, and it would take a life-changing surgery to get rid of the dysmorphia. We live in the 21st century and body modifications will only become more common, I believe. Why deal the cards we're dealt with when we have the chance to reshuffle them to our liking? I'm ranting a bit now so hey, hello and nice to meet y'all 
LL surgery planned for the 2030's? From 5'7 to 5'10 - 5'11?
Congrats on turning 25! Cool to see the LGBT+ here. I have trans male friends who are saving up for surgeries, including LL, and I always let them know they got my full support. Our bodies deserve to be liberating, not be prisons for us. We all deserve to be comfortable with our own physical bodies and minds, it's why it pains me that I won't get over my own demons until a decade later. One can always get money, be successful, be involved with hobbies, but being "tall" is just the luck of the draw.
I'm sorry to hear about your relationship. My preferences for men are having beards and being muscular/fit. Short, average, tall, it's whatever, they're all hot as hell if they got a swole body, kind personality, and know what they're doing for a career. But tell me about it, I'm sick of feeling this way. I want to be the taller muscled man that people stan too. Working out and bodybuilding only distracts from the height issue, and it comes roaring back a few hours later.
That's another motivator too. Average height is increasing and there's no way I want to feel left behind in the workplace. But at the same time, I feel the need to do MMA/boxing for self-defense and I know damn well LL could ruin that. fk, man.
Edit: damn I meant to reply to r/smallboy lmao
Quote from: Submarine on August 24, 2021, 11:35:12 PMIt really sucks before LL was invented everyone has no alternatives but to be dealt with the cards without chances to reshuffle as we desire.But luckily we are living the luckiest era but meantime unluckiest era(society is highly demanding for height more exaggeratedly than the old societies).
All that for us to do is to kick those discriminators' asses and move our asses for LL with exponentially increasing revenues and if reincarnations exist we hope for next reincarnations we must be given birth to tall embryos,guaranteing not such grieves in the next life.
But I'm into women.I'm 21 and around 162cm as a Chinese male(physiologically boy).If not LL I really have commited suicide cuz my country is really heightism.
Oh I've heard how heightist China and South Korea are, it really sucks. I'm Filipino myself, was born there but was raised in the US. Southeast Asians average to be way short, but absorbing and feeding off of Western male beauty standards for my whole life, it's no wonder I got really bad dysmorphia. But even Filipinos can be really heightist too like comments from my relatives, cause a child's/teenager's height in the Philippines can be seen as a status symbol for the family.
I'm right on board with you. Wish you luck with your LL journey and kick heightism in the ass. I know if I go through with LL, I'd be in better shape to call out height discrimination if I was 5'11.
Quote from: LeoGb on August 25, 2021, 12:08:38 AMWhy a decade?, that's a long time, you want to have surgery in USA and probably do Stryde?, in Europe and Asia there are interesting options like LON, where for about 25k USD you could have surgery, in fact I have been in communication with a guy who had surgery in Vietnam and paid 15k, and gained 6 cm in TIBIAS, (his recovery is going quite well) I don't think it's fair for you to wait that long to have surgery.
I'm still a broke college student and I plan on graduating around 2023. You do got a point though cause it's a real long time, if I play my cards correctly right after school, get hired right away, and strive a bit harder to save up, maybe 2025-2026?
2030 was more of a hypothetical year because I wanted to see if LL would make any big advancements by the next decade. But by then I'd be well into my 30's. Until then I'll be digging deeper into the Stryde rabbit hole.
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