Regardless of how anyone perceives average height people wanting to get taller, at the end of the, do what makes you happy.
If celebrities who many regard to be the icons in terms of physical appearance can do nosejobs, chin-lifts, filler infections, boobjobs, average-height people choosing to do this surgery should be viewed no differently. All cosmetic procedures carry risks (even death: ) thus only discernible difference is that this surgery has a much longer recovery phase
Many of you complain being judged by society solely due to your height and having stereotypes attributed to your height by other people especially with women (i.e. short=weaker, can't protect women, napoleon complex). Well, with all the labels you place on average-height people wanting to do the surgery ( i.e. crazy, insecure, incel) are you acting any differently from society?
Discrimination Against Average-height Limb Lengtheners
What a fail topic.
Average height leg lengthener whining that people are calling them nuts is like an anorexic girl bitching that people are ridiculing her for getting liposuction.
Your views are nothing short of irrelevant. This is meant for the people who are on the fence about doing the surgery. What matters is the patient's happy after it's all done. And in my case, I couldnt be happier.
Quote from: Sibirsky on July 01, 2017, 08:03:03 AMYour views are nothing short of irrelevant. This is meant for the people who are on the fence about doing the surgery. What matters is the patient's happy after it's all done. And in my case, I couldnt be happier.
My views are the majority so get used to the criticism on the net and by anyone who finds out what you did to yourself. You say you couldn't be happier now but you still aren't post-op enough to run and for that matter have no idea how your stamina, balance and flexibility will be years later. You still have body image issues because now you're worried that you lengthened too much and are considering a second lengthening to damage your body even further. You traded one neurosis for another. How can you be an advocate for something that you haven't even fully completed yet? For all you know your lengthening could be a failure because you'll try to run one day and your body hurts too much to do it for more than mere seconds.
And of all things to advocate, cosmetic lengthening is one of the dumbest. Even short guys advocating other short guys to get this is stupid.
The majority may agree with you. It's try that this is one of the most morbid forms of cosmetic surgery. As with other cosmetic surgeries in the past, it is taboo. And just like those cosmetic procedures which have become well accepted today, Limb lengthening will too. Especially if the technologies continues to improve to make it more convenient and less taxing on the body and the demand from society increases
Because at the end of the day, although the majority would agree that this surgery is extreme, the same majority deep inside wish they were "just a bit taller". Remove the extremity involved like the external fixators and reduce the long term impact which may one day be possible, and I doubt this surgery would be viewed any differently form a nose job.
Oh yeah btw my flexibility and balance are virtually the same as they were before. I can't tell the difference between doing splits and yoga then and now.
As for stamina and strength I'll get back to you on that, but from the looks of things I'll be running and walking by the end of this year. Again, not much of a long term complication in my case at least. Appreciate the concern tho.
^ You realize that the person in this video is a lobbyist advertising a company or a technology making profit with LL? So obviously he will say that the technology is very far and it will become a widely accepted and used procedure, there's an economic motive for him to do so. But that's not the truth, because even with our current technology, the consequences of even a completely successful leg lengthening surgery are pretty grave. You have damaged your athletic ability with your surgery already, especially since you lengthened a pretty big amount, and your athletic potential will never be what it once was with your healthy body unimpaired by any surgeries. This is definitely not the case with nose jobs or most other forms of cosmetic surgery. This is a fact.
True IwannabeTaller.
As much as people here (especially the taller folks) would want to believe, you will never be as athletic (atleast potentionally) post ll like you were pre LL.
Saying "taller people can do better because they have longer bones is complete bull . a 180 person who is proportional has legs who are 5cm longer than a 170 person. Out of those 5cm 0.5-1cm are in the foot so basically they might have a tibia that is like 1-2cm longer than a person who is 10 cm shoter which means they can lengthen a milimeter more safely. As people here know, even tall people don't have like 36 inseam or even 35.
Also the major thing that causes people post LL of all heights to be less effective athletically is that the taller you are, you have more motor units per muscle. So even if your muscle fully recovers after lengthening, it will be less effective because it doesnt have as may motor units as someone who is naturally tall. That's why taller people have more strength potential. It's because they simply have more motor units.
Sibirsky, you and Vader are imo 2 of the most weird and unsuccessful LL cases I've ever seen, for different reasons though.
I understood that you wanted LL as even though you had a respectable height you still were in the upper range of people that have reasons to do LL as you weren"t taller than average. However, you lengthened too much for no real reason and you ended up a very disproportionate man with huge tibias that looks really weird with shorts or swimsuit or nked and of course your athletic abilities are way less than before due to your destroyed biomechanics.
You could have had an excellent result and height and you ended up an unaesthetically disproportionate man with problematic athletic capabilities for no reason.
So how could you say that we should justify average or taller height LL'ers while people like you do unwisely big amounts of lengthening, that not even really short people who need every cm they could get wouldn't dare to do, and show that the taller you are the more mentally unstable you are to do LL.
Vader on the other hand had a height that no sane person would have a problem with (6 ft), on the other hand it was an absolutely perfect height. But he wore 4 inches heels to appear taller and definitely had serious height complexes so he thought LL was the solution.
He did wise amounts of lengthening, I should give him that, but still he did 2 LLs at a 6ft initial height! That's insane dudes and another example how the taller than the average you are, the more mentally unstable you are.
So no Sibirsky, the discrimination you mentioned is more a way of telling that some people don't have a real height problem but a mental one and LL won't fix it.
Unfortunately, I don't know almost any more than average height LL'er who have real reasons to do it other than feel superior, be taller than my 7ft brother etc while these people most of the times are skinny boys or nerd fatasses who never had any problem with their height but with all their appearance and their personality. Maybe there are some exceptions but very very few.
So the discrimination in reality is between mentally sane people who want to do LL and insane ones. And most of the second group happen to be average height and more.
HAHAHAH discrimination i love this word 
Anyone average height getting LL is basically her http://88plasticsurgery.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/sheyla-hershey-plastic-surgery-before.html
So no its not normal. Its fuc ked.
there is a reason that most docs would not touch anyone above 5'5. So stretching it for the sake of this messed up forum to 5'8 is more than enough.
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