Did I stunt my height?

[Anonymous]

My father's 5'9", my mother's 5'1". My sister can grew to 5'5" and I only ended up 5'6". That's pretty awkward. Most of my friends ended up taller than their fathers and tower over their sisters, but I am 3" shorter than my father and barely taller than my sister.

I grew up suffering from depression and was extremely sleep-deprived. I slept 0-3 hours/night on average during my teenage years. Sure I might have taken some sleep after school, but still it can't be effective for my growth. I also didn't eat very well, I ate too much rich, and often at night/before bed.

[itsallover]

There's no real way of knowing whether you stunted your height because genetics are so unpredictable. Height is mostly based in your genes, very little else has significant influence. You could've had the most perfect sleeping pattern and still been the same height as you are now. Who knows.

[aficionado]

I guess the height of a person is hard-coded in his/her genes, and you can only deviate from it by about an inch. So even if you stunt your height, it would just be by an inch at the most.

[Klaatu51]

basically how tall's your motherand your grandparents?

[Asker]

mother's 5'1"-5'2". Grandfathers were taller than me. Grandmothers are short.

[Klaatu51]

thanks!

[Mesonfielde]

Yes, yes you did. Can we move on?

[Asker]

Well provide me plausible reasons/evidence how I stunted my growth

[Mesonfielde]

You already did that. You also did that 3 months ago.

[James687]

you can't stunt your growth

[Asker]

How do you know?

[James687]

because there is no evidence that you can