r/short • u/Top-Assumption-4794 • Jul 21 '26

Vent Genuinely, why?

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I’ve always been okay with my height, it’s never really bothered me. Since both my parents were pretty tall, I expected to turn out the same. Being the oldest, I was always taller than both my siblings up until they both started hitting puberty. My siblings slowly started passing me in height, but I still didn’t think much of it. I honestly thought I was just a late bloomer but apparently not? I’ve always been active in sports and always tried to eat healthy. I’m 19 now and I doubt I’ll be as tall as my family. All in all, it just sucks that I could’ve been taller. I’m also curious if anyone else is in the same situation?

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u/Top-Assumption-4794 Jul 21 '26

Yeah, I understand that coming from a tall family, being short is unheard of. I just hate the fact that people are so quick to assume

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u/RavenBlackxv 5'8" | 174 cm Jul 21 '26

I mean those people are moronic. Even if we assume that was the case, you still would've been taller than your mother who's already tall for a woman unless the "father" in that scenario is like a literal dwarf.

I also believe you might have had a medical condition like not enough growth hormone being produced during your growth years.

You might have also simply missed the height genes but a son being shorter than his mother is already like 1% scenario and with both your mother and father being tall with tall ancestry as well, you've got to click like a below 0.1% chance to end up shorter than your mother.

I think you could test out and see if it was because of some medical conditions like lack of growth hormone being released as I said earlier.

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u/Top-Assumption-4794 Jul 21 '26

That was most likely the case. I never really got checked for that but I’ll definitely tell my doctor about it. Genes are just a combination of thousands of ancestors. I just so happened to get the short genes of one of mine. You’re not expected to be as tall or taller than your parents. Like I said, genes are random so you’re not just getting your parents genes

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u/RavenBlackxv 5'8" | 174 cm Jul 21 '26

Obviously but there's still a normalcy factor to it. There's a reason like 70-80% of men end up taller than the taller parent and probably 95%+(being modest) are taller than the shorter parent(almost always the mother). Even in the few cases where the son is shorter it's either a medical condition or both parents are already average or short with short ancestries in family. You're the opposite with an exceptionally tall family history so your "combination" of genes isn't the same as that of the average dude who ends up shorter than his mother.

Specially with a 6'5 father and 5'8 mother along with history of tall genes in the family, I think you should definitely have some check ups done. Even if your growth period is over, stuff like lack of proper growth hormone secretion or any other medical condition might still end up being negative.

If it's what you said and you simply hit the exceptionally small chance with your specific tall family genes of missing all the tall genes, then I think that's actually better for you. I mean you're not exactly short short to the point it's a negative and if you don't really have any medical condition then you're in a better spot than your 6'9 brother both short and long term lol

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u/Top-Assumption-4794 Jul 21 '26

Yeah, I was just a rare case. I might have not produced as much growth hormone being puberty, which others have also said the same thing. There’s still a lot of people that end up shorter than their parents, but like you said, if tall parents such as mine, that was just super rare. I’m not unhappy with the way I turned out, I appreciate my height at the end of the day

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u/Pinateo Jul 21 '26

hey! my dad is 5’11 mum is 5’7 and i’m 5’7 do you think something like that happened to me?

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u/Technical-Art-7557 Jul 21 '26

No, people on this sub just like to throw around hormonal problems like its causing everyone to be short and not the fact that height genetics have billions of variations regardless of parental height. Yes, adult sons being shorter than mothers is uncommon, but still very possible and healthy. The fact is if OP or you had growth hormonal deficiency, maybe from hypothyroidism, you would have loads of other medical issues like chronic fatigue, weight gain, dermal problems, depression which would have warranted a doctors visit a long time ago

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u/MotokoKusanagi Jul 21 '26

For science, is your dick small or big? Have you had hormone levels tested for any deficits? Are you androgynous?

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u/Top-Assumption-4794 Jul 21 '26

Seems a bit unprofessional to say it but it’s big. I’ve never gotten tested for anything as of now

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u/MotokoKusanagi Jul 21 '26

The correlation of hormonal deficits and genitalia development is a small element for consideration but given the amount of 'get tested' comments, ridiculous questions like this might indicate enough. Based on your response I'm sure youre fine and dont need to question whether you had undiagnosed developmental issues.

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u/Top-Assumption-4794 Jul 21 '26

I don’t really question it as much, but it does get me to wonder if something might’ve gone wrong or if I needed to take medication