I've been waiting for years for a late growth spurt that was promised, but so far has not come. I've been 5'2" since my nineteenth birthday. This can't be my final adult male height can it? 7-8 inches below average male height, maybe even more for a white guy? Heck, it is even below average female height. I've got good proportions, go to the gym and am in good shape but my height is a joke and I hate having to look up at every regular guy n matter what the situation. Please let me know if there is any hope. Even another two or three inches would be something.
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Speak to your doctor, they might be able to determine if this is your natural adult height and if not there might be hormones for you to take to boost height. Your height is determined by genes, if your parents are both small you will probably also be small, but if this height is unnaturally short compared to your direct family members there might be something else going on. Go to the doctor and see what they say.
What really sux is when a girl calls you a teddy bear and picks you up.
That's never happened, yet.
You can get really buff in the gym but the only comment I ever get is "awww cute, how tall ARE you?"
I wish I was just normal short, I could deal with that. At this size height always seems to be an issue, even with complete strangers.
Many thanks for all the answers but the website you link is really great, if depressing.
I can see that my height at 15 sort of predicts where I ended up and that the graph is pretty flat after 18 years or so.
So I guess that is it, which I always suspected, but is good to have confirmed.
I'm not going to be putting lifts in my shoes or a box of my head.
I know people have bigger problems to deal with in life than being an undersized guy but it still kinda sucks. You can't imagine how often folks say " hey, how tall are you?" "You're really short" or (last week) "my 14 year old niece is bigger than you"