Can you be too small?

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True, Zen, thanks for sharing:).

Though I will say this one thing, I have never heard/known of any parent or

family being embarrassed, ashamed, disturbed, frightened, or unsure of how their

child's health might end up being and how much that might end up costing them

and with all that is before their child grew up, of an above average tall child

compared to them having one of us.

I guess, as I have gotten to be an older lp, I have either seen it all or heard

it all. From my meeting a proportionate lp lady whose parents had no pictures of

her taken at family functions, because they were embarrassed that they even had

her, to a disproportionate lp's parent, well, one of them, that flip out sooo

bad after they were born they left both the child and the remaining parent on

their own totally, never to be seen or heard from again. To my ever hearing of a

parent or guardian of exceedingly tall kid do any of that. Now, what keeps me

upbeat, positive, and sane, is knowing this: The number of parents who have hung

in there, including my own:), OUTNUMBER the ones who didn't a million to

one:).... BUT, my point still is this, I have never heard of a parent of an

over tall kid being anything but happy. I could be wrong tho, and I can accept

that.

Those who I really feel for, are the extremely under-small as one might say it.

Because it is easy for me to be smug at 4'6', an lp who has had his fair share

of ailments and ops associated with his condition but still who has no Trach, no

wheelchair (yet), no joint freezing/locking up (Diastrophic) as one gets older,

no heart probs that I am aware of ('s), no limited lifespan (as some

specific types do have) or of my being the type of dwarf sooo rare and/or sooo

short that I would even get stared at by my own fellow lps at a group

meeting.... And to those, I admire. They and their parents amaze and BLOW ME

AWAY, ~TRULY~.

~grady

> Hmmm, I think being anything other than " average " height is a

> challenge. I'm 4'9 " and my nephew is 6' 8 " . Both of us have similar

> issues, just on opposite ends of the spectrum.

> Just my two cents,

> Zen Cat