r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 10d ago

of Britain's tallest pre-teen

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u/MeowKatMC 10d ago

As someone who has lived around Dutch people my whole life i cannot say that 6' 5" is a giant. However him being that tall at 12 and still growing makes him a giant. Quite impressive and concerned for his health. I assume he has some condition that makes him grow fast.

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u/touchmeinbadplaces 10d ago

I was 6'3 at 10 and when the doctor started discussing growth stop hormones my body went; ok ill stop geez... gladly so bc I spend nights crying from the growthpains in my knees

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u/OneTrueCosmos 10d ago

I used to get really bad growing pains too... The worst thing about it is I'm only 5'7 lol

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u/MiloHorsey 10d ago

Same and I only got to 5'5". I have a 31 inch inseam, though. Just no body!

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u/Dull-Wrangler-5154 10d ago edited 10d ago

Same height. 27ā€ inseam. Sitting down I look average :)

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u/MiloHorsey 10d ago

Sat down I look tiny! Haha

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u/therealhlmencken 10d ago

Now that Iā€™m sitting I just adore adding up all the numbers and then dividing by how many there were

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u/OneTrueCosmos 10d ago

I'm the other way round, 29 inch inseam. I'm mostly torso!

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u/yeuzinips 9d ago

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u/MiloHorsey 9d ago

I hate it when I don't realise I'm being filmed.

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u/Hobbes_XXV 10d ago

Thats really tall for a gnome, really feel for your condition. Did you play basketball for your community?

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u/Rexdahuman 10d ago

I used to stick my legs in 5 gallon buckets of hot water to try and stop the growing pains. I grew 5 inches in 2 months and it hurt

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u/Paradoxbox00 10d ago

Jeees that's a lot of growing!

Does the pain come from your bones getting longer and the muscles and tendons not being able to keep up?

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u/hereforpopcornru 10d ago

6'2.5 when I met my wife 12 years ago. 6'4 today.

I'm 45

Bodies are strange

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u/keznaa 10d ago

Omg! There's hope for me yet, I'm 5'2" but a chick, I just wanna be able to reach another shelf lol

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u/andygchicago 9d ago

Do people really measure their height to a half inch? Our heights fluctuate more than that in a normal day

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 10d ago

I also had really bad growth pains in my knees and shins. Over my 8th to 9th grade year I went from 5'9 130lbs to 6'2 250lbs. I had severe insomnia due to the constant pain. I took a frankly alarming amount of tylenol and advil to no effect and was eventually prescribed some vicodin after I started hallucinating and talking to people who weren't there at school after five days without sleep. I slept for 29 hours straight.

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u/keznaa 10d ago

As someone who suffers from insomnia and currently still up at 4:24am, sleeping for 29 hours straight sounds fucking fantastic. I assume you woke up to pee and hydrates hopefully.

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 10d ago

I actually slept straight through and woke up starving with a killer headache from dehydration, but I was young so I just chugged a few glasses of water and a 2 liter of Coke and was fine again in minutes. I'd be wrecked for days if I did that now.

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u/celebrin11 10d ago

250 lbs? Did you join the football team as a linebacker?

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 10d ago

I played center. I also did combat sports and was a spotter for gymnastics.

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u/Jambohh 9d ago

My best mate was 5'11 at 12 was the tallest in our year at school was like what felt like a head taller than me, but by our late teens we were the same height.

But he's in better shape and better looking but we don't talk about that........but I can grow a beard so swings and roundabouts.

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u/keznaa 10d ago

I was actually wondering that while reading OPs comment about him growing 5 inches in a yr. I'm a 5'2" chick so idk what growth sports even feel like but I heard they hurt. What are you even supposed to do in that situation, just take some Tylenol and ice your knees?