Worried about my height.

VG_Addict · #61

So, when should I stop growing?

Marilink · #62

That varies from person to person, but you've most likely stopped. That's no reason to be discouraged or anything, though.

VG_Addict · #63

Maybe I could do stretches.

Now, I already said that no one commented on my height in high school, so there's no reason to believe people will comment on it when I get a job or anywhere else.

Are you saying I'm wasting my time when I drink milk every night?

I grew a half inch in the last six months.

Deepfake · #64

VG_Addict wrote:Now, I already said that no one commented on my height in high school, so there's no reason to believe people will comment on it when I get a job or anywhere else.

Kids are still growing in school. Perceptions of height aren't completely coalesced by that age, and you're not being judged for height by other adults when you're not an adult.

VG_Addict · #65

So, I probably WON'T grow another inch?

Deepfake · #66

VG_Addict wrote:So, I probably WON'T grow another inch?

Men continue grow until they're about 24.

VG_Addict · #67

A lot of people on other forums have told me that you stop at 20-21.

DarkZero · #68

That's an average. It really depends on the individual.

VG_Addict · #69

Well, I was 2 weeks premature.

Deepfake · #70

VG_Addict wrote:A lot of people on other forums have told me that you stop at 20-21.

Well that's completely untrue. They will also tell you that you experience puberty from 13 and up yet some kids start when they're 8 and some start when they're 18. That's just statistical bull****. You're an individual, not the cumulative average of all of the human race. You can make judgements about this based on genetic history or known physical conditions even down to the chemical intake in your diet, but not what's most commonly occuring in past statistics, anyway. What's normal for you should be your concern.

Statistics work like this: Of 100 people queried, 99% returned a positive value for being on fire. In the context of the group, people belonging to that group have a 99% chance of being included in the portion of the group on fire. In the context of the individual, in the group or not, however, each person had a 50% likelihood of returning the value "on fire" because they are individuals and grouping them together based on whether or not they have skin and kidneys and are perceived as human beings does not correlate strongly to their state of fire or no fire. That is a clustering illusion.

What you do have is a direct lineage to compare with your parents. Crowd-sourced statistics with no inherent connection have no value. So if you joined the group of 100 people to make it 101, you do not have a 99% chance of being on fire.

If the national height average of adult men in kenya skews towards "really freaking tall" and you move to kenya during the next poll, you have not increased your chances of being tall.

VG_Addict · #71

I SWEAR this is the last I'll talk about my height:

I was born six weeks premature. Could that have affected my growth?

Marilink · #72

Okay, no. You're done. You have asked us to lock the other topic multiple times, and we did. You have to realize when enough is enough. I know you're concerned about growing more and whatever, but it's out of your hands and it is absolutely ludicrous that you have posted this many times about it. Y'see VGA, the first time you asked it, people were willing to be nice and offer advice or encouragement. But you ignored us all by asking the exact same questions over and over and over again, despite our repeated efforts to get you to realize that IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU DON'T LET IT GET TO YOU.

I understand that your height is upsetting to you and that you're not sure what to make of it. However, if you ask a large group of people for advice, and they give it to you multiple times, maybe it would be a good idea to actually listen and be appreciative of their words instead of, to be quite frank, rudely shoving them back right in our face by blatantly ignoring them. Now that you've asked the topic to be locked, you are resurrecting another one in a different forum, and just what do you expect the result to be? I can tell you right now, this group of people that started out as trying to help are very quickly turning into a tired, frustrated gang of gif-posters and thread-derailers. Why is that? Because we feel that no matter what we do, nothing is getting accomplished. So why should we try?

We like you, VGA. You're a very active member here and you generate a lot of discussion with your questions. That's why we were so willing to help you out at first. But nobody likes to have their words ignored, whether it's once, twice, or fifteen+ times. Have you noticed SD's quote parade every new post you have? That's not to insult you or to ridicule you. That is to get you to realize just how often you have asked the same question, and therefore how often you have completely and totally ignored us.

I am not even going to offer you any more advice, because you can go back to both this topic and the other one to find everything that I and my friends have wanted to say, every single time. I will end this with some scripture, though, because I've been kinda law-oriented here and you could use some good news. Even if you are not religious, I encourage you to read this because there's a lesson to be learned.

Psalm 139:14 -- "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

Psalm 139 was written by a man who was the redheaded outcast of his family. All of his brothers were tall and muscular hunters and warriors like their dad Jesse, whereas he was the family's only sissy shepherd boy. Now, God had decided that the new king of Israel was going to come from Jesse's family to replace Saul, so he sent his prophet Samuel over there to anoint the new king. When Samuel got there, even he, the Lord's prophet, thought to himself that one of the older, impressive-looking brothers was certainly going to be the King. However, that was not the case--in fact, the youngest boy who was out in the fields was going to be the new king over all of his taller, stronger brothers.

That guy is King David. Yeah, that's right, as in David and Goliath. As in greatest king of Israel. He was not perfect, in action or in stature, but when he wrote Psalm 139 he didn't say "Come on, God, why didn't you make me taller like my brothers Eliab and Abinidab? Then people might respect me more." No, he said "I am fearfully and wonderfully made." To me, this says two things: 1. Be content with what you've been given, whether you believe it came from God or not. 2. People can do great things despite their physical stature, and that is because it's not what matters.

I hope you read this and I hope you take all the advice that's been given to you over 8 pages of forum thread.