Grew 3 inches (that’s right folks!!!) at the sweet and sexy age of 27. I went from a medium-short 5"10 to a 6"1 in like a year and a half.
My family thought I was some sort of freak or something, but according to the doctor I have nothing wrong with me. Apparently, although cases are pretty rare at my kind of age(s), it does happen.
Anyone else a late sort of bloomer?
[By the way, the rest of my family are more or less in the five foot-something range, so I getz to be DA BIG MAN!!! Though pappy always says he can still kick my ass!!!]
Wow. Was this accompanied or preceded by a change in diet, lifestyle, drug consumption, or proximity of residence to the nearest nuclear waste facility?
The last choice was a joke, but I’m serious about the other possibilities.
It’s not unheard of. While most folks reach their final height before 18, some don’t. College athletic teams measure and weigh a player as a freshman, and they publish those same numbers until the player’s graduation. Every coach has seen a few players grow 3 or 4 inches and gain 50-75 pounds while in college, although his press kit numbers don’t change.
On the bright side, you may also be late in developing high blood pressure, male pattern baldness, gray hair, and prostate troubles. And, um, death.
I did most of my growing in two separate bursts. The first was when I was about 13-14. Then I seemed to stall for about 3 years and I shot up again to my present height (175 cm) when I was about 16-17.
Yeppers. When I was 20-21 years old, I had a growth spurt of two inches - from 5’6" and change to nearly 5’9". I only figured it out when a classmate mentioned that all my pants seemed to have become high waters. My parents ended up taking me to a doc to make sure it wasn’t any weird hormonal disorder. Nope. I was fine. Just taller. And tickled pink about the whole thing.
Well, it apparently runs in my family to stop growing at around nineteen, then grow a few more inches around twenty-two-ish. It’s happened with a few cousins of mine. I guess that implies that it’s partly genetic, at least some of the time.
yep, 3’ tall; going into kindergarten and leaving 6th grade. i was in size 6x for all those years. i even wore the same outfit for the first day of school k-6.
i remember waking up in the morning going downstairs and getting breakfast telling my mom i grew some overnight. the counter was a bit shorter. you get very comfortable with things being a certain height, when they are off by a quarter inch or so you notice it.
my feet kept growning though. i would go through shoe sizes during k-6.
