Posted on 01/25/2020 2:15:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
More power to them. But if they go beyond that and wade into judging others for wanting to have a larger stature and lobby for it to be effectively banned because that's not their own choice, well, screw them.
Excellent comment.
A new “ist”? Dwarfist?
If you don’t want to take advantage of this new opportunity, don’t. Forcing others not to do so is fascistic.
If you like your dwarfism, you can keep your dwarfism?
Mickey won’t have to wear lifts any more.
From the time I was 13 till 17 in the early 60’s some doc thought it a good idea to give me human growth hormones. I grew about an inch per month from 39 inches to my current 67 inches. No major health issues except raging arthritis in my neck and back. I don’t know if I would have grown without the hormones or not. It was long ago and so far no adverse effects.
A derivative of Viagra?
Interesting medical news, I suppose. However, as far as current events go, this is surely dwarfed by the coronavirus.
I was an instructor in a community college. I'm 5'7" and I wasn't so tall. The women there looked me straight in the eye. The ABCs --American born Chinese--are getting right up these in the tall category.
I had a male Asian student who had a BELLY. He was an ABC I was disGUSted. He asked me for a program to get fit. I gave him a strength-training program.
About a year late he met me after a class. He had on a white t-shirt. He whipped off his t-shirt and said:
"LOOK!! I have LATS!!" (latissimus dorsi)
He was so proud of them.
I remarked that this 20 year old body is one he could keep. He could look like that for a long time. The strength training wasn't THAT difficult and it HAD to make him feel good to be so much stronger.
Of the three fitness parts--cardiovascular, flexibility and strength--the MOST important was STRENGTH. It's especially important as we age.
We all want to be able to get out of bed by ourselves.
We all want to be able to get to the bathroom by ourselves.
We all want to be able to bathe ourselves.
NONE of us want to NEED to wear adult diapers.
Strength is the key.
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She hops off her bandbox!
They are lucky that this is the controversy. They could end up finding a way to predict someone with dwarfism inside the womb; then, we will see a reduction in the number of these people being born at all. Rather like what has happened with Downs Syndrome.
Amen.
Maybe the Corona-virus can’t find dwarves?
This nonsense about celebrating and taking pride in disorders is truly deranged.
Nadler is busily shoving everyone else aside to get first in line.
Abuse is a strong possibility. Every mom/pop that wants their kid to be the next SEC football/basketball star will be juicing their normal kids to the max to achieve something they were not intended to be. Nothing good ever goes without it being co-opted by fraudsters.
These sort if treatments have been around for years. This maybe a new one or advertising fir an existing one.
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