What is the minimum increase in height for it to be noticeable to normal people (not forum or height-obsessed people)? When do people start making comments about your height change?
I think 5-6-7 cm are noticeable for some people, but not for everybody. Most people don't know LL exist and, when they see your final result, they think you've lost weight, without much further thinking.
What about 10-11 cm? Would it become obvious then to everybody that you are taller, to the point that they would investigate about the existence of a procedure to become taller? And if the patient who increased 10 cm wore lifts or heels before that enormous height increase, would people around that patient notice, even if he/she stopped wearing lifts/heels after his/her LL?
What is the minimum increase in height for it to be noticeable to normal people?
Completely subjective
If they are near your height, they'll notice even at 5 cm. You could attribute it to shoes at this level. Double digits, you'll get more questions no doubt.
The taller they are the less they'll notice. Some are much more observant than others, so as already pointed out, it's quite subjective.
For females, not even 4" (10cm) would be noticeable, since women can easily wear 4"-5" heels.
For men, it depends, as Android explained.
But I'd like to suggest asking a deeper question - why do you want to hide that you've had LL, as your post and username suggest?
I've asked several fellow patients this question, and haven't gotten any convincing answers. I've also asked it here on the forum, in a more extreme form - going public in order to fundraise. Skip that part. Actually being honest with people who ask or notice has never struck me as a problem. I've already told all my friends and had a farewell party. If you tell the truth and they judge you - great! You'll quickly learn they aren't a person you want to spend time with - something that otherwise may take months or years (in the case of a partner, for example; I completely can't fathom why some female patients are actively hiding what they're doing from prospective dates they're considering for marriage and are stringing along online).
If I were to notice your height increase and learned about the astounding level of effort and endurance it entailed, I'd want to get to know you and perhaps become your friend. Such humans are rare. (That does suggest that it does matter how you frame your CLL journey and the reasons for doing it. Here are mine. I did also learn of reasons such as "I want to be taller when I have kids" (5'1" -> 5'6" Asian female - I don't get it))
the issue is obvious - most people who contemplate/go through with this surgery are suffering from a psychological/mental disorder in which they feel their height is THE issue preventing them from living a purposeful live and feeling whole etc - as you say 'such humans are rare.'
Exactly - this affects a small proportion of the population.
A relatively healthy person would be aware that revealing a 'voluntary leg-breaking for a few centimetres' journey is not a source of admiration or inspiration - but rather a red flag drawing attention to an individual's mental disorder and related issues - there are plenty of other ways to make friends!!!... 
Quote from: th on June 02, 2018, 06:37:57 AMthe issue is obvious - most people who contemplate/go through with this surgery are suffering from a psychological/mental disorder in which they feel their height is THE issue preventing them from living a purposeful live and feeling whole etc - as you say 'such humans are rare.'
Exactly - this affects a small proportion of the population.
A relatively healthy person would be aware that revealing a 'voluntary leg-breaking for a few centimetres' journey is not a source of admiration or inspiration - but rather a red flag drawing attention to an individual's mental disorder and related issues - there are plenty of other ways to make friends!!!...
Haha, you're going to make me quote Johnson and keep this loop going.
This is completely subjective.
Quoterevealing a 'voluntary leg-breaking for a few centimetres' journey is not a source of admiration or inspiration - but rather a red flag drawing attention to an individual's mental disorder and related issues
If you're 183cm/6 feet man and you just did 7cm on your tibias, then proudly announced it, describing what the process entails to people around you? Then yeah, a lot people would see exactly you in that light. A lunatic.
If you're an actually short man, subject to jokes and comments you never wanted to hear you whole life, having had trouble in finding a partner if you're not special in some other way (e.g. successful), and you didn't lengthen your legs until you looked like a freak, then people are going to be more understandable.
You know, that was the reason orthopedic surgeons used to have height thresholds and only did LL for men on the bottom percentiles of height.
And at the end of the day, it's still like OYG's said. The people who aren't understandable don't really matter in your life. Most LLers were short people dedicating so much of their time and money to escape a life of hearing those jokes, among other things. Unlike weight, which anyone can do anything about, we only have the pretty medieval distraction osteogenesis for height at the present moment. Yet, despite it being obviously unhealthy, no one "cracks jokes" about obese people in public, to their faces - at least after high school. When those obese people finally get a grip, worry about their health, and lose all that weight, they receive nothing but support and posts reaching to the top of sites like imgur. I sound bitter about it, but I'm just pointing the double-standards. If anyone was obese before and they're healthy now? I agree with rest of everyone else on those sites: great job. Looking better now. You did it. Congratulations.
And obviously losing weight and one year of distraction osteogenesis aren't comparable. One is simplistic and good for you, and the other is barbaric, has lasting consequences. That is not my point if anyone got that from the reading the sentence up above (equating losing weight to LL). The point is that people are respectful of some legitimately medically worrying conditions in other people (that they can do something about), but feel free to denigrate, emasculate, defeminize women and men alike who fall on certain percentiles of height - something which they never had any control over their whole lives. I'm also not trying to imply people should start being as disrespectful towards overweight and obese people are they are men who are too short, or women who are too tall/much too short. Just the opposite, actually. Give them the same respect you give to these other people. However, that attitude doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon.
And for a perspective from the other side of the spectrum: Olivia Jones is a German drag queen. She was something like 207cm and did limb shortening to 200cm. There was no furor in the media at all questioning her mental sanity. Her whole operation stayed as mere side notes in articles about all her political activism (BBC link).
Everyone knows being too tall as a woman, and too short as a man, are both considered unfeminine and unmasculine, respectively.
The real problem are all the average-height-for-a-white-male men registering here because they're actually believing in those 6 feet memes they read online. That they can't get girlfriends if they don't break their bones in Russia or India for a year...
As for my actual answer to the thread, I believe others already covered it:
Quote from: Android on June 02, 2018, 01:52:35 AMIf they are near your height, they'll notice even at 5 cm. You could attribute it to shoes at this level. Double digits, you'll get more questions no doubt.
The taller they are the less they'll notice. Some are much more observant than others, so as already pointed out, it's quite subjective.
Besides the shoes part, you could add having corrected your posture at a 5cm increase. At 5cm, there are also a bunch of medically (sounding) sound lies you could use for all the laymen around you, if you really wanted to go through that route.
Once when I was in school a couple years ago I wore 2cm lifts + shoes with 2cm soles and a girl asked me in suprise if I grew. (She was about the same height as me)
I'm sure anyone who was slightly taller than you or the same height will notice the increase (if you're the same height as them or taller than them after LL). But according to several experiences of LLers no one said something.
I am 1,60m, I might not notice if a 1,65m guy is 1,70m months later because I normally don't compare myself to other guys as I'm not interested in them, rather to girls.
5cm for most of people make a diffefence, esoecially if you were not too ahort to begin with.
From 7-8 cm and more the difference is big and obvious to all.
I believe it is bad proportions that make people think you have done something to your body
To keep proportions, measure your torso length, long legs short torso is not attractive
This guy did 8cm and looks extremely lanky
Keep it at 6cm
As for your close friends to notice you have gained hesight, i’d say 4cm is when they start noticing because when you wear lift shoes which are usually 4cm, they immediately notice the height gain.
As for revealing to others that you had some procedures done
That would be a big mistake
Normies feel disgusted by this because they feel cheated or something
Even something as minor as a rhinoplasty puts them off
I once talked about roids at my work and how I wanted to use them, all my co workers accused me of roiding even tho I was natty back then, the appreciation I got for my muscles and size faded away in an instant because they thought I cheated
I learnt never to share extreme opinions with normies if you want to fit in with the society
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