Quote from: paddy10tellys on April 27, 2016, 09:28:27 PMIs it just me or does anyone else think it is interesting how many short millionaires frequent this forum?
Self-selection bias. To seriously consider this surgery one has to be both short enough to consider it and rich enough to actually get it done.
As a 5'3.5 guy reading this thread... RIP me lol
Haha, well, I'll be completely candid in saying that I'm an only child and nerdy loner from an impoverished backwater who spent most of his teenage years on bulletin boards and never grew over 5'8" (although I'm 30 and have shrunk to just over 5'7"); my inactivity during adolescence contributed to a confirmed growth hormone deficiency, and I stopped growing height-wise at 12. Women still flirt with me, but I'm insecure, self-conscious, and ultimately depressed with myself. Despite being competent, intelligent, and able to hold conversations with random people, insecurities about my height and thin body have held me back a lot concerning important life-building relationships.
Society teaches us to infer more respect for taller people while valuing ourselves less; that psychosocial bullcrap works on most people, and I do it as well through transitive reasoning. One friend of mine is 6'4", and he was hired into a salary position at a large company while he was 19 and a college sophomore, making effectively double what I made. Another of my friends is 6'7" and got a job I applied for over me, despite him being in college for computer science and me having graduated two colleges with bachelor's degrees in computer science and networking. In contrast, I had another friend who could do anything; he was a military vet, college graduate, sky-diving instructor, NBA commentator, parkour and skating enthusiast, disaster relief volunteer, and had huge success with women--I'll never forget the time a woman paid his way through Morocco for a month while his girlfriend back in the states waited for him to come home. He was only 5'4" (was sadly shot and killed earlier this year).
Really, I think that money and success play an equally important role in self-confidence and social stature. If I had money and felt like my life was going somewhere (i.e. becoming a doctor) then I would be more functional despite my size. But as of right now, I think in the lines of, "I'm short, I have no money, and I don't have much of a future." And people see that I am not happy with myself.
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