<p>I’m not short by the slightest margin, I was just wondering how we can possibly increase height. There are methods if you learn about it somewhere, some people can still do it. If there’s something I dislike about myself, it certainly isn’t my height. That would be my impatience.</p>
<p>If there were methods that were safe, effective, or cheap, in any combination, people would have heard about it by now. The end of puberty is the end of growth for the majority of people. Unless you have a pituitary tumor, but the side effects aren’t worth it.</p>
<p>^Overosing on steroids might make you taller, but it will also make your dick a lot smaller.</p>
<p>Not your *****, your testes. And they won’t make you get taller after your growth plates are closed.</p>
<p>Hahahha wow. You guys think you’ve had it bad? I’m 5"1 at the age of 15 in the 10th grade. I’m taller than my mom by like an inch and more or less the same height as my dad. My chances even getting with a girl in my school leaves my options very closed…especially with the attractive ones.</p>
<p>The fact that I can hardly even dunk on my own basketball hoop while watching all 4 of my closest friends who are 5"5+ is nerve wracking to the point of depression. I can never get the rebounds and the best I can do is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I can’t even play defense because all they have to do is throw the ball over my head. I actually hate my parents in the sense of genetics of why I have to be so short. ■■■.</p>
<p>^I was roughly that height when I was 15. I’m now about 5’5" or so. The shortness has its advantages. You’ll learn them later. I’m still learning them.</p>
<p>For instance, everyone understands if I choose to have a Napoleon complex. Mwahaha.</p>
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<p>Name some besides “people understand if I’m a jerkoff”.</p>
<p>Jolie.Hauteur was 5’5" when she was 10, JB.</p>
<p>I don’t doubt it.</p>
<p>It’s nice when I don’t hit my head on things, and there’s basically no car that’s too small for me.</p>
<p>…Perhaps a few more inches would be nice, but that’s not going to happen, so meh. Napoleon complex.</p>
<p>Man, I agree that height is really overrated in our society. I see subtle (and even direct) discrimination based on it daily, and I’m in HS. I’m currently about average height for males and still growing, but when I used to be short in Middle school…lol.</p>
<p>I heard it’s better outside of the U.S. and Canada or something, but I’m not sure about this.</p>
<p>Any sport based on weight class might bring an advantage to being short. Wresting, weight-lifting, come to mind. Most distance runners aren’t particularly tall.</p>
<p>It’s significantly worse in Europe.</p>
<p>I can imagine that in countries like the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark, where the average male is 6’1", there is more height discrimination. That creates a huge disparity between the average people and the shorter people. Even if xenophobia and racial discrimination are put aside, they can still exist in height discrimination, as northern Europeans are, on average, the tallest people in the world.</p>
<p>I’m not sure. Maybe so, my immigrant friends from Europe tell me height is less of an issue there, but maybe since they aren’t adults there yet.</p>
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And I’m not sure if this is true, since their scattered height %'s will be accordingly adjusted. The higher the average = greater discrimination?</p>
<p>Oh, come now everyone, there are certain benefits to being ~short-average! As mentioned earlier, a number of sports give short*er<a href=“and%20lighter”>/I</a> people an advantage (gymnastics, jockeying, wrestling, etc.), and the world itself hasn’t been constructed for larger people – the tall have to contend with far too small seats and beds (gah, leg room. There is none), low shower heads, low ceilings, and a plethora of other problems! Those on the taller end of the spectrum require a lot more space, and when that space is fixed (say, in any form of budget public transportation, or school desks, or what have you) it is far better to be short – and be able to fit comfortably – than it is to be tall! And this not only applies to consumer spaces but also to everywhere, really – short people can fit in places where tall people can’t!</p>
<p>Also, due to typically lower body mass, short people don’t require as much to eat and have lower basal metabolic rates! Which is not only useful in saving money, but is also very helpful when in a situation where food is scarce! Not to mention they need less material for clothing and smaller living arrangements in general. </p>
<p>There’s also been found a negative correlation between height and life expectancy: [ScienceDirect</a> - Life Sciences : Is height related to longevity?](<a href=“http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T99-47W4M47-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=15019e8868c4364f5fc19756a8ee28e2]ScienceDirect”>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T99-47W4M47-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=15019e8868c4364f5fc19756a8ee28e2)</p>
<p>And finally, <a href=“http://danielfranklingomez.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/shorty.jpg[/url]”>http://danielfranklingomez.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/shorty.jpg</a> ;D</p>
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<p>[this isn’t to say that there aren’t any benefits to being tall, either, and personally, given the choice, I’d prefer it, at least to a certain extent. However, it’s important to note that it isn’t necessarily ideal, and that there are certain detriments associated with having greater than normal height, and certain uses to being short]</p>
<p>edit: Oh, and to the OP – I recall watching a Ripley’s Believe It or Not episode many years back where a prospective flight stewardess had her legs broken in a few places and then surgically reconfigured (with implants, I think, but I’m not terribly sure) to make her taller. She did it to fulfill some height requirement for the airline she wanted to work for. So it’s possible, I think. ;]</p>