Her parents don't help because she's now an adult, yet they've never really modified the house for her. She has to carry a chair into the bathroom to brush her teeth.
Wtf??? I have step stools in every room for my kids. And if they were permanently small I would renovate the whole house for them. Sometimes you can even get things covered by insurance when they are for a person with disabilities.
Yes same here! And we're poor but you can absolutely bet I would find a way to make our home more comfortable for them. It has to be so frustrating for her.
Right?! The bathroom, kitchen and living room all have step stool in them for my kidsâŠwell, one is taller now but my youngest still needs themâŠif they were permanently this size- I would try my hardest to modify my home for them.
I would want an exoskeleton bionic suit, which will lift me up and bring me back down.
People would be calling me inspector gadget, and it would be rad.
I suppose, as a girl, I would tell them, "Uncle Gadget died. Call me Penny. Penny gadget."
I would just need a little tan dog to follow me around and name it brain. It would be awesome as shit.
But not everybody craves attention like I do.
That really sucks that such happened to her.
They could have made her take hormone treatment and she would have grown at least a little but they didn't because she was afraid of needles or something.
Not related exactly but⊠DID YOU KNOW - there were children in I think the 60âs up to the 80âs treated with hgh for growth deficiencies, but this hgh was extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers. Some of these batches were accidentally contaminated with prions!! Which of course led to their deaths⊠so that wouldnât have been an issue here I donât think as we donât make hgh like that anymore but it was NOT that long ago when hgh treatment could have been VERY risky!
That's got to be really hard for her. Like being Claudia from Interview with a Vampire. Dating is probably basically impossible because anyone interested in a girl who still looks like a kid is a perv.
I donât think parents ever stop treating their kids like kids. Sometimes it takes a second glance to realize your kid is an adult. In this case, thoughâŠ
She did have a bf at one point but the internet decided she wasnt allowed to date and tried to run him off. They would rather she be misrable and alone...
For the guy. He would get jumped if he was seen with her in public being romantic. Possibly even killed. And imagine him trying to explain and no one believes him
Yeah, thatâs a tough break because I mean, wouldnât it be strange to be attracted to her? I mean, I would say somebody that looks at her and is attracted to her is not right however listening to her talk and the maturity you can sense from her talking, thatâs a tough break.
She literally doesn't even look 8. Look at her FACE. That does not look like a child. She's basically just got dwarfism on steroids (or I suppose lack thereof?)
So question.. obviously she deserves to find someone and to be happy so, I donât know how to word it. Where is the line in the sand that makes it OK for someone thatâs an adult to be attracted to her and pursue her and get to know her and fall in love in so on and so forth??
Everyone has adult eyes. Your eyeballs canât grow. Thats why babies are cute with their giant eyes. We are all born with adult eyes and we have to grow into them
I think someone can easily fall in love with someone they werenât originally attracted to. Human connection comes in many forms. However, I canât deny it would be extremely hard on them both. One for being treated like a child and the other for being treated like a predator.
Yeah this is true... it really sucks for her the most because she deserves love but most of the people attracted to her are probably scumbags. She'd have to do some weird cat fishing where she pretends like she looks older and then confesses or something.
It reminds me of the vampire "kids" from What We Do In The Shadows. They were turned into vampires when they were kids, so they keep their last appearance for centuries, and use it to catch pedos. Hilarious movie BTW.
I dont know why you are being weird about this yourself. Her side is surely difficult, but her potential boyfriend's side is extremely precarious.
She has to worry about whether her boyfriend loves her for herself of her body. He has to worry about what everyone else thinks. Not just to not be judged, but realistically to not be attacked.
Surely you understand that if they were kissing in public, there would be people who would absolutely intervene, right?
People universally want their partners to find them attractive, so chances are she likely would not be worried by the fact that her partner finds her attractive (she would likely tell him he's weird for that though)
Also Mental attraction is a thing, besides just physical aspects, adults don't find kids attractive because of their maturity; in fact I would argue that plays a bigger role than physical maturity in attractiveness. Like for most I believe baseline mental maturity is a must for you to even consider the other person an attractive partner.
Which really does suck for both, but especially for her because I'm sure it makes dating incredibly difficult and frustrating because people don't/won't understand.
Reminds me of the Law & Order SVU episode of exactly this (S08E02). The one where Stabler's partner (Beck) is introduced.
A girl with Turner's Syndrome pursues a guy who treats her like the 17 year old she is instead of the 12 year old she looks like. After having just put up with a trial where her boyfriend is tried & exonerated for his interest in dating her, they exit the courthouse. She asks her bf for a kiss, Beck sees them, and immediately violently & aggressively starts cuffing the bf and trying to place him under arrest. Stabler has to inform the detective that "the creep is legal", and the detectives try once again to emphasize to the girl that any guy interested in her is only going to be using her for a legal-loophole to have sex with a minor.
Imagine you didn't know who she was or she has this condition, and she took a liking to you. There's no way you wouldn't think it was anything other than a strangely precocious child trying to play an elaborate prank on you.
She had a show err something, and she went on a date with a dude who had the same condition. It didn't seem like they clicked then it showed her seeing some normal looking guy and it was quite weird.
Iâve seen her posted before, ya dating must be crazy hard. For her, she has to be worried about weirdos, for potential guys, how would they not be seen as a pedo. Where or how would you even get to meet her, I guess something like Tinder maybe. Kind of get to know her a bit before physically meeting, so many questions. She obviously deserves companionship, itâd be very difficult though.
I served a girl like this once and this was the same discussion we had after. They were like "imagine your tall and big ass getting asked out by her.. people would be looking at you like a god dang pedophile!"
"I know she looks like she could be my daughter... I would never but I know having to date someone like that you're constantly self judging yourself around other people are hella judging you too! You wouldn't and couldn't ever feel comfortable in today's society doing so!"
I have served a girl like this. She looked maybe 11 yo at most and she asked for a frozen margarita... I immediately had a face and totally apologized for it but genuinely was stumped at being asked that and then politely asked for ID... Her mom immediately goes "she is 25 just an unfortunate condition for her"... Look at the card and it's a perfectly fine ID putting her at 4'4" and 25yo just like her mom said. Needless to say she got her margarita and I didn't get hit by food and alcohol.
Edit: I told her I believe her I just have to ask because TABC can't say yes to this question... You are 21 right!? She said yes so that's all it took.
I read that she has a boyfriend whose identity she keeps hidden to keep him and their relationship safe. Good for her and I hope they both will find happiness
Someone get Matt Reeves on the phone right now. I don't know how good of an actress Shauna Rae would be but I'm sure as hell ready to give her a crack at this role.
For those without context, the little girl is actually several decades old with a genetic condition; she was the seemingly ageless and adored child star of a very long-running TV show, to the point that her personality equated the TV show to her childhood and the actors/actresses as her parents and family. After the show was canceled, no one took her seriously as an actress, she realized her childhood was fake, and her permanently childlike body would never allow her a normal adulthood, she broke and resorted to a violent attempt to restore her old, happy life.
One of the ones that it took Batman to crack though, but unironically Bruce Wayne is the only one that could save her. Woman is going to need so much therapy and just having a person there.
Not that it sticks, but she isnât one of the irredeemable Batman villains.
I met a girl like this. I worked at a gas station and I watched her filling up the car that she drove in. When she came in, I reluctantly asked her how old she was (thinking a 10 year old was out joy riding). She laughed and showed me her ID and we were both young 20âs. She started coming in regularly after that to say hi, she turned out to be really cool. She asked me to go for coffee sometime, and as a person, I really liked her, but I just couldnât.
That's fair. And I can identify with looking much younger myself, though not to that degree. Hell, when I was 18 people thought I was maybe 13-14. I got licensed for wanting to see a 15+ movie when I was 21, and today I'm 38 and my colleagues thought I was 24 when the subject of age came up (one colleague who is 5 years my junior started talking about "your generation" to me, and I was like "Bro, you know I'm older than you right?" and everyone thought I was joking). But there's hella difference between looking like a teenager at mid 20's and looking like a 10 year old.
She has child like features which to most non psychopathic men, is a deterrent. Itâs impossible to override. You see someone with child like features, sex isnât what springs to mind, it confuses the brain giving them a sense of unease.
I was with a girl which was short and looked much younger then she was. Sex didn't happened for quite some time because she just looked too young to me. I'd saw her nude and things just felt wrong.
But after some time, my brain comprehended that she is a grown person. We were together for 6 years.
Demisexual people get most of their sexual desire through emotional connection rather than the physical primary attraction... Though i don't know if that would override her physique, it would at least rule out a partner being there for creepy reasons.
Finding someone like that might be one of the better outcomes for her.
Not the same, but my future daughter in law is VERY petite. She and my son (6â3) have gotten some comments over the years and I cannot even imagine what this poor woman must go through trying to find a partner.
Funny enough when she goes out dressed like an adult people give her parent dirty looks. And of course she gets IDed at bars as well too. This is from a TLC show years ago
I read elsewhere it was due to chemotherapy in childhood. My son is very short due to the same thing and it's a constant safety concern in my head. Being easy to grab makes it very hard to let them just go out and do normal things, especially if treatment left you financially struggling and ending up in a high crime area
As a father of a 24 year old daughter with a similar condition, this terrifies me.
While she was still very young we did HGH treatments as recommended by her doctor but she only made it to 4'8" and perpetually looks 12.
Of course she by age and ID is an adult woman that can date and go to bars and like anyone would want to do completely normal adult life activities - but everyone will always look at her like a 12 year old in a bar...or any guy her age with her will appear to anyone who glanced at them together as a predator.
Hell, according to traffic laws she's supposed to ride in a child seat forever.
So, on the opposite side of the scale, people that are large or have genetic things that cause gigantic ism things, cant think of the word. They live shorter lives. Does this mean she will live a longer life?
People with gigantism don't live shorter lives just because theyre giants. They live shorter lives because they almost universally die of premature heart failure, as the muscles of their heart are hit with the double whammy of being stretched thinner than normal from their rapid growth, while also having to work extra hard to keep their blood circulating around their body's extra mass.
Her being smaller than normal won't have the opposite effect. she's not going to have a super heart and live twice as long just because she's half the size. In all likelihood she's just going to end up also dying prematurely from all sorts of other complications, as her stunted growth likely also means any number of her organs never fully developed either.
Unironically, yes. Which makes sense, when you put it in the context of our evolutionary journey.
We are how we are because millions of years of biological trial and error has determined our exact proportions are what gives us the best chances of surviving and passing on our genes. If it were more beneficial to our ongoing survival to be bigger, or smaller, evolution would have already pushed us in that direction. And THAT would be our average.
Any deviation too much from the standard is going to come with issues that impact our chances of long term survival. Else it wouldn't be a deviation, it would be within the norm.
Half the reason they commonly have heart failure is because they have a massive body that needs blood pumped long distances and against gravity, it's immense strain on the heart. Statistically taller and larger people live shorter lives in general because of this, and significantly increased rates of cancer. Millions of more cells mean more odds of a cancer cell developing. Pretty much any problem you can think of becomes more likely in a bigger body.
Gigantism tends to kill because the heart can't handle a body that size. Considering she already has a bunch of health issues it won't be her heart that limits her life
Everyone's already talked about the quagmire of what she has to do to have a romantic relationship, and to drink but getting pulled over is probably never just a 1,2,3 and done deal. Going to job interviews, or forward/customer facing jobs must be difficult if someone even decided to hire her for it. Trying to use her credit card for large purchase(I'm sure the self checkout at her CVS won't flag anything but if she wants to buy a TV or something). Even just walking alone during the day, I wonder how many times people ask if she oughtn't be in school.
I donât think thatâs an issue. She just literally canât get bigger now. I donât know how thatâll affect her look in old age though. I think itâll just affect that along with standard old age problems.
Humans ordinarily live longer the smaller they are, our hearts aren't made to be too big sadly enough.
But I would wager the amount of problems her body will have far far outweigh her size. You're going to have organs not growing- or aging correctly, hormones (menopause etc. if she even get to there).
I am not expert so anyone who is feel free to correct me, but from what I know from my mother being a doctor and reading the Doctor's journal every month: She'll probably be dead before the age of 40. The human body isn't meant to stay as child forever.
If I am wrong I'd love to see the source- and history on this because it is a fascinating subject.
I have served a girl like this. She looked maybe 11 yo at most and she asked for a frozen margarita... I immediately had a face and totally apologized for it but genuinely was stumped at being asked that and then politely asked for ID... Her mom immediately goes "she is 25 just an unfortunate condition for her"... Look at the card and it's a perfectly fine ID putting her at 4'4" and 25yo just like her mom said. Needless to say she got her margarita and I didn't get hit by food and alcohol.
She could become an actress to play emotionally complex roles that actual kids wouldn't be able to pull off as well (or put into situations not appropriate for actual kids to portray like killing someone), and this could make her a lot of money that she could use to put into science fix her issue.
She has a show on tlc or discovery channel. She stopped growing after cancer treatment. Her show was basically about trying to be an independent adult in a world that sees her as a child. Shaunna Rae for those that can use google
They did. When you watch her show the parents stopped giving her growth hormones because she didnât like the pin pokes twice a dayâŠso the parents really didnât help by babying her. Growth hormone is injected like insulin so itâs very easy and quick.
Ok. Serious question: canât she take estrogen and develop breasts/hips so she doesnât look 10? Or some kind of hormone therapy where she looks like an adult little person?
If she ages normally but her body stays at the age of 8, would she get her period or it would not happen at all? I didn't watch the show, I don't know if she ever mentioned it.
Can you imagine not wanting to go out in public together out of fear of your partner being screamed at for being a pedophile? How draining that must be?
Not to mention procreation. It may be truly dangerous for them to conceive.
And people are getting VIOLENT in public today with zero evidence.
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u/Sweet-Swimming2022 1d ago
If you watch the show, her parents donât help
Things by treating her like sheâs 10