How has your family/friends/co-workers reacted to your surgery?

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When LL patients are able to have laser treatment after the lengthening? Is there a specific time range for that or it depends on the recovery? If I choose to cover it up that can be really good option. Quote from: zaozari on April 16, 2022, 09:12:01 PMYou will have the feeling if and when the time comes to share your secret and it may even strengthen the trust between the two. If you choose the secret you'll feel a burden in your shoulders and she may one day discover by other means but you can "erase" scars with laser or tell her you had an accident. However, I wouldn't invent any lie.

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I don’t know, I suppose there is not a specific time range and that would depend more on the skin and scar evaluation by a plastic surgeon or a dermatologist. It would be important to know previously if one should do it allmost immediately after removal of any apparatus or if one should let the scar "consolidate" first.

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Another data point: recently met a friend who I hadn’t seen in two years. He always claimed 5’11” and I believed him but he’s actually the same height as me now. He didn’t notice my height change at all and we talked about everything else completely normally.

Also a few months ago I met another 5’11” friend who is actually 5’11” barefoot. He hadn’t seen me in over two years as well and didn’t say a thing about my change in height. We actually hung out for a few days as part of a group trip so he had plenty of chances to bring it up but he didn’t.

I think the only people who might notice are the ones who are obsessed with height like us or have categorized you in the “short” bucket in their brain, otherwise they won’t even notice. I sometimes get a second glance from guys I surpassed in height but never from guys who are already decently tall.

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Quote from: BelowTheMean on April 25, 2022, 07:25:00 PMI think the only people who might notice are the ones who are obsessed with height like us or have categorized you in the “short” bucket in their brain, otherwise they won’t even notice. I sometimes get a second glance from guys I surpassed in height but never from guys who are already decently tall.

One interesting thing I've noticed over the years is that taller guys just don't think about height at all & are actually decently aware of heightism and its absurdity. Of course, it makes sense given that they don't deal with heightism themselves and so they can't even really understand it. But it is interesting that the height obsessed in terms of judgement of others are often well, the shorter ones like us.

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Just returned from a trip where I caught up with 7 friends who I hadn't seen in a year, and not one of them mentioned anything about my height. I was taller than three of them who used to have an inch or two on me before LL. I did not meet them all at once (about 2 at a time)

I kept leaning back on one of my legs and wore flat shoes without insoles to minimize my height, but I still had a net 1.5-2 inches that way

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It’s really interesting. Before I started seeing everyone again I was terrified I would be outed as doing LL, but only a handful of people have noticed and mentioned it and it’s been quite easy to brush off. The people who tend to mention something are / were similar in height. Other people may have noticed but not said anything. Interestingly my 6’6 friend who I hadn’t seen in 3 years said “what the hell man have you grown?” as soon as he saw me. But his height is a large part of his personality is his height so he may be attuned to everyone’s height. For everyone worrying, most people won’t notice. I would say 70% of people haven’t mentioned anything.