Wondering if anyone out here hasn't outgrown their father?
I'm 5'7 and my father is 5'11, my brother is 6'1. I stopped growing at 13 due to poor nutrition and awful sleep during teenage years. Doctors confirmed this using growth charts and blood tests. I didn't realise at the time it was messing up my growth big time, everyone said (including my father) that I would keep growing till 20s but then I grew skeptical of it.
Doctors told me to get an x-ray on my wrists (growth plates) because I didn't grow in an abnormal amount of time and everyone else in high school was getting taller than me and it confirmed they were closed and I couldn't grow anymore. I was in devastation for 2 months and I failed a portion of my Semester 1 grades at school because I couldn't get past it. I was furious. I was once taller than the kids I was staring at in class but they outgrew me and it made me cold, everytime I went to school it pissed me off so much. Kids rubbed it in my face that they "outgrew" me.
I developed height dysphoria from the fact that I couldn't outgrow my father and that it's my primary motivator to consider LL, around 95% of people I know in my age group either outgrew their father or are the same height as their father. It made me grow jealous of the people that surpassed their father in height, even if they were 5'6 (but their dad was 5'3). I felt like I was done dirty and I wanted to outgrow my father or at least reach similar height as him. The average height has increased overtime and it's uncommon for a male these days to not outgrow their father (I'm 20 years old now).
Anyone else on the same boat?
I meant same height and above, I didn't mean only outgrowing. The average U.S male was 5'6 100 years ago, now it's 5'9.2. Same trend can be observed in many Western nations and of course developing countries too.
Quote from: ilovescience on September 05, 2021, 01:18:32 PMI think you are just fine. That's the height of Tom Cruise. Did your friends or girls who you tried to date tell you that you are short? Is 5'7 noticeably short compared to the people around you?
It's not 5'7 I'm angry about, compared to Asians I feel quite average and for white people I feel a bit short but nothing too extreme, I've had no problem getting girls.
What I am furious about is not surpassing my father's height. I only know like 2 people are below their father's height (males) out of the hundreds I've met and that's around a 1 inch difference. Most are the same or taller. I just feel sad that I never could reach it, I look stupid on family photos and it feels symbolic to me not to reach my father's height. It's quite difficult to explain the feelings around it.
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on September 05, 2021, 01:41:33 PMSame here regarding being a natural 5'7 and shorter than my dad. But my dad is 6'1, and his height doesn't matter to me.
It's perfectly common to not outgrow your father if he's tall and your mom is short.
My mother is 5'6 and her 3 brothers are all around 5'10 height, give or take 1 inch to each of them. I doubt her height had an impact on mine.
Quote from: chatterjeeshaswata11 on September 07, 2021, 01:30:05 PMMy greatgrandpa was 6'3. Grandfather was 6'4. Father is 5'9. I am 5'5. I dont understand humans. My father's side is full of tall men with good facial features. Mom has horrible genetics though. Wish my parents didnt have an intercaste marriage. Screw liberal values
My best guess is because my parents have had a ty marriage and my father almost never came home, my mom didnt cook for me. It's not like Im poor or something but the maid either didnt cook or cooked ty food that I never could eat. So I never got the nutrition I guess? Idk
Did you drink enough milk and have enough meat as a kid? I don't think it's your mother's fault, I have plenty of friends from India (assuming you are from your name) that outgrew their parents from lower castes. In the west people usually reach 80kg by the time they're 20, the amount of protein they have stimulates growth and that's why the average height has increased in the past 100 years here.
Quote from: GrowANut on September 10, 2021, 02:04:16 AMOh yea 100% lol I know it's only 2 inches but at this height every cm matters, I feel shorter next to him for sure. He has told me that he regretted not giving me HGH injections when I was younger, but all the doctors told him that I was above average in the growth chart and I was going to surpass my dad by about 4 inches guess they were wrong unfortunately.. now I gotta spend 200k and endure a lot of pain for my height... rip.
They told me that too at the age of 12. Guess where I am now 
Quote from: chatterjeeshaswata11 on September 10, 2021, 06:27:52 AMJust curious. So if my son gets proper nutrition he'd be tall, right? Do genes change because someone in the lineage became short?
He will I'm pretty sure, depends on your wife's genes too but since you have a tall father and if you marry a decently sized girl then you have an extremely strong chance your son will surpass your height.
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