Short Arm Body dismorphic disorder

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Quote from: ShortArm on June 18, 2018, 11:10:57 AMThis is really hard topic for me. Before my puberty i had a symmetrical body. I knew that the only cause of my bullying was my wierd head shape. After puberty i ended up with short arms. I have never had the psychological strenght to accept this kind of change. So i ended up with a disorder visualizing my body. I can only check old phostos of me and get a relief..my body looks normal. Only that head is there that i can hide with a cap.

I know there is people in the forum with short arms. Ware you guys allways short armed or did it happen in some growth spurt? To be honest after puberty bullying was tough and also the back pain that i cant escape. It wont go away, because i cant try to keep back straight.

Some guys in the forum talk about you have to be okay with your short stature first. Then you can think about lenghtening. Do you guys have a problem about the shame that your body brings you inside? I can tell that is the one and most destroying thing to me.

For me many things are tolerable: one shoulder 2cm wider, wierd head shape, acne scars in face, bow legs, small genitales, small hands. These things make me suffer inside, but + arms are short...that just is one thing too mutch.

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Quote from: Johnson1111 on June 18, 2018, 12:03:11 PMAnything down to -2 inches under your height is within acceptable average range. What are your proportions? Is it that bad? We are all very critical of ourselves and the more we read about perfection the worse we get.

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Quote from: ShortArm on June 18, 2018, 01:00:38 PMI hear and understand your situation too, both too short and too long arms look silly. My height is 178,5 and armspan is 175cm so its in the limit of 2inches. My problem is that i have also really wide shoulders so it makes my problem visible.

If you measure the middle part of your torso and legs. My fingertip is exacly at that point when i keep my arms tight to the body. Maybe 1cm over it to be exact.

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Quote from: ShortArm on June 18, 2018, 11:10:57 AMThis is really hard topic for me. Before my puberty i had a symmetrical body. I knew that the only cause of my bullying was my wierd head shape. After puberty i ended up with short arms. I have never had the psychological strenght to accept this kind of change. So i ended up with a disorder visualizing my body. I can only check old phostos of me and get a relief..my body looks normal. Only that head is there that i can hide with a cap.

I know there is people in the forum with short arms. Ware you guys allways short armed or did it happen in some growth spurt? To be honest after puberty bullying was tough and also the back pain that i cant escape. It wont go away, because i cant try to keep back straight.

Some guys in the forum talk about you have to be okay with your short stature first. Then you can think about lenghtening. Do you guys have a problem about the shame that your body brings you inside? I can tell that is the one and most destroying thing to me.



For me many things are tolerable: one shoulder 2cm wider, wierd head shape, acne scars in face, bow legs, small genitales, small hands. These things make me suffer inside, but + arms are short...that just is one thing too mutch.

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Quote from: myloginacc on June 19, 2018, 12:35:09 AMYou're fine.

2 inches = 5.08cm.

-2 inches would be 173.42cm. And I don't know where Johnson picked the 2 inches figure from.

Multiple members here have stated that they have a wingspan 10cm (just under 4 inches - 3.937in) shorter than their own height.

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Quote from: Racurz on June 19, 2018, 01:39:00 PMTo be fair if it bothers you that much you could go for arm lengthening in your forearm or humerus it’s apparently less stress on the bones the leg lengthening is and can look good with 2-3 cm add unlike most people who get like 6-8 cm on their legs in one segment alone

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Quote from: ShortArm on June 19, 2018, 02:16:17 PMThanks for your reply, i have been intouch with couple of LL doctors. My main contact was with Dr. Pili. He assured me that 4-5cm would be possible, but my goal is just that 2-3cm to be conservative and to keep proportion. Now i have trird to be intouch with my countrys doctors. Seen 1 doc, who really had little experience on the matter. Fortunately he linked a guy in the capital city. This guy seemed to know exactly what he was talking about. I will have consultation after i recover from the last consultation that was not a success.

But in my case think about a guy whos head is seriously size xl and it looks portionate, because of the wide shoulders. That is the only good thing about armspan in the shoulders. I have short humerus, so i think the lenghtening would just leave scarring i think i can live with.

I respect you guys for trying to make me feel better, thanks!

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Quote from: Johnson1111 on June 19, 2018, 11:56:40 AMIsn't -2 to +5 normal range for wingspan? Not as far as aesthetics but as far as most likely to occur? Something along those lines? Yes there are people with -4 but they're not in the average group for wingspan. Those people are less common.