Quote from: Knik on February 22, 2018, 08:33:32 PM
but you know everybody is 6-7
that's my case too, most of my uncles (4 uncles) are 6/6-2 (that's what they claim, I don't know exactly) and I'm not insecure. I don't feel short next to them as my shoulders are at the same level than their shoulders (for those at 6ft). 2 of them are white, 1 is black, another one is mixed
and I know they are tall, so no reason to be insecure
thanks to them I can be sure that average is far from 6ft or even 5-11
Have you tried measuring yourself again? I think you're taller than 170.5cm. But you're right. The difference in height between two persons only gets massive after 13cm.
I've seen people who did LL from 5'7 to 5'10 mention how surprised they were at how close people of their former height seemed to them. Because we only experience life through our eye level, height differences seem bigger than they really are to others.
Quote from: LLprime2 on February 22, 2018, 07:54:33 PMI used paint. I cut the image where the legs where by selecting that area and pulling it away by xxx pixle (7 cm). Then I selected one half if the splited image and streched it so both images pieces would be connected again. The streching of a selected area in paint works really well for mock ups.
For comparison reasons I don't have proper images with other people next to me, or images I would want to put on the internet. But I can trell you that my cam was standing at at least 1 meter height and about 5 meter distance. It's not from a low angle.
Also @ CaptainAmerica, I don't know about your height or the height of other people, but everyone experiences life in a different way, especially with height. I don't think you can relate to some people enough to know how they feel. I'm someone who does not think about his height for the most time of my life. Why would I even, there is nothing wrong 'with me'. And I don't even get to hear anything from others about my height, not even girls have ever mentioned my height, even with my height (Maybe it's so obvious that there is no reason for people to point it out. I might hear more after the operations, that's what I think). And I still think it's worth doing it just because I can. It's mostly for myself (the side effects of being perceived differently is a nice side effect for sure). I just find the thought of doing it interesting enough to go for it. It's comparable to a 'superhuman ability'. Why would I not want to try it out?
And I'm also convinced that I will heal up to 95-99% (If I only lenghten while the body responds positively). There is a reason why something like a placebo effect exists. Because the body does perform better or worse depending on the psyche of a person. The physical body, the healing power, and the immune system is connected to someone's real convinced and subconscious thoughts. If people expect to heal only a bit, how can they expect more than that? They are literally forcing their body to stop healing after they reached their expectations. They need higher expectations to heal better. (So for a pessimist, I can understand why they would not want to do LL. They would perform badly by being a pessimist according to what I explained before.) For that same reason people become sick depending on their mental state. You guys know that everyone has cancer and the immune system is constantly fighting it. It also is a process. What society labels as cancer is when your body lost the fight with the cancer that is always there to some degree, and the cancer is likely to finish from there. Even from that point you can have a comeback. So you need to realize how much of the unsuccessful operations happen due to the person having the operation. This is why you see mentally stable people perform better.
Of course the operation itself needs to be a success. After that, the rest is up to me.
Hey, LLPrime, if you don't mind the personal question: how are you expecting your life to change after LL?