When did you stop growing?

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Miss Chicken, Nov 26, 2008.

  1. SPOCKED

    SPOCKED Admiral Premium Member

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    I've just started shrinking :(
     
  2. Squiggy

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    No! Bad Trekker!
     
  3. nevermore

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    I stopped growing at ~5'2" when I was about 11, which was the height I was expected to be as my mother is also 5'2" and my dad is 5'3"ish.

    So, the upshot was that I got to be one of the tallest kids in class for about a year. Then people had these "growth spurt" things; apparently we don't get those in my family. Instead, we get migranes. Fair trade, I'd say. :rolleyes:
     
  4. Michael Chris

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    No idea. A while ago, and I'm 20 now. So maybe 17?

    On Marfan's, didn't Lincoln have that?
     
  5. Squiggy

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    You're pocket sized!
     
  6. ITL

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    I reached 5'10" when I was about 15, and have been like that ever since. Except for my manly belly, which continued it's inexorable growth unabated.

    I'm one of the tall ones in my family - my mum is less than 5 foot tall, just like her 9 million aunties. At family parties I feel like I'm surrounded by hobbits.

    :D
     
  7. trekkiedane

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    I must've been around 17 when the direction of my growth changed from vertical to horizontal.
     
  8. Miss Chicken

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    It is thought that Lincoln had it,but Egyptian pharoah Akhenaten as well at least according to a documentary I saw on TV. I remember reading that Mary, Queen of Scots is also believed to have had it.
     
  9. An Officer

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    I had already reached my full height of 5' 9" at age 13.

    Strangely enough, my feet seem to have grown half a size in the last few years! Perhaps shoe manufacturers merely size them differently now...
     
  10. nevermore

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    ^My feet have gone from a 5 1/2 to a 6 since college. I think it's because I spent a lot of time walking or something.

    Seriously, xmas at with my family is like a trip to whoville. :lol:
     
  11. Emher

    Emher Admiral Admiral

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    I stopped growing at about 16 or 17, lenghtwise, at 6'3". I think I've become more handsome since then though so my facial bones have probably grown a bit.

    And I'm trying not to drool over the petite ladies in here. My only serious, not quite fetish, but preference.
     
  12. Cicero

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    I stopped growing at 21. Oddly, I gained an inch in that last year. Unfortunately, it made a number of pants that only barely fit just slightly too short. My shirts still fit as they had, though, so I must have gained the height only in my legs.
     
  13. Deckerd

    Deckerd Fleet Arse Premium Member

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    Females (under normal circs) stop growing after puberty. Their bones, I mean.
     
  14. Lowdarzz

    Lowdarzz Captain Captain

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    On the height side I hit 6'2" when I was 12 and stopped. I've always been physically bigger then anybody I've ever known due to large bones and a barrel chest that one doctor told me he would be very afraid to operate on.

    On the volume expansion side I hit 380 last June. Luckily enough I decided not to die by 30 and am now at 306.
     
  15. Stephen!

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    I'm 5' 10 - I stopped growing sometime around 20/21 ..... I was around 5' 6 at 16, but then seemed to go through a lot of growth spurts during later teens. I think it was just Puberty being a little slow at times.
     
  16. MeanJoePhaser

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    Your nose continues to grows throughout life and if people lived to 200, they'd have to push their noses around in wheel barrows.
     
  17. GMac

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    I reached 6' at 19 and haven't grown further since.

    GM
     
  18. Squiggy

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    And that's when guy's bones start growing.


    OH!
     
  19. JonathonWally

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    I stopped growing at 15 when I broke my back. So I stayed at 5'10 which makes me one of the shorter guys in my family. I was supposed to be a lot taller, but shit happens. I'm more than cool with my height.
     
  20. Temis the Vorta

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    15, 5'9".

    Speaking of dysfunctional growing, my mother's cousin had a son who died about age 20 from giantism. He simply never stopped growing and eventually his heart gave out. When you're pushing 8 feet tall, your heart no longer can work as a pump, something to do with physics. This happened a couple years before I was born.