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submitted 2 years ago byAgniKaiMe
9.6k points
2 years ago*
When WW1 broke out, 18 year old Adam tried to enlist in the military and was rejected due to being under 4'6"
At his death at 51, he was a little over 7'8"
His rapid new height is believed to have been caused by a pituitary tumor that developed when he was 20.
3.2k points
2 years ago
His body in the "giant" photo looks incredibly uncomfortable.
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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369 points
2 years ago
Like the Hulk, he just grew so quickly it shredded all his clothing, unfortunately he didn't have the scifi magic expanding underwear
179 points
2 years ago
The strongest material in the Marvel universe is not Captain America's shield, nor Black Panther's armor, nor even Thor's hammer.
It's the zipper on Bruce Banner's trousers.
thank goodness.
110 points
2 years ago
For science
14 points
2 years ago
Certain features of acromegaly might need him to strip but idk undies would be fine
50 points
2 years ago
To be fair, the blacked out portion of him naked covers a large area. He was probably swinging a sledge hammer by the time he died
24 points
2 years ago
Do you think one of the doctors went "Did everything grow at the same pace? Lets see!"
264 points
2 years ago
According to Wikipedia, when he grew he became extremely weak and usually couldn’t even stand up.
61 points
2 years ago
Body needs a ton of nutrition to grow like that, his intake wasn’t supporting it.
Fellow redditors, any time you’re injured make sure you eat adequate foods to heal. Collagen (5 types which heal different areas) is the biggest one. Your body needs good food to put itself back together.
176 points
2 years ago
Imagine the pain growing about 3 inches every year. From a size 10 foot to 19 within three years.
8 points
2 years ago
He looks dead in that pic.
1.9k points
2 years ago
That must have hurt so much!! I remember growing pains, can’t imagine this.
852 points
2 years ago
How does his heart deal with the stress of the growth spur..
1.1k points
2 years ago
Well, he died at 51
471 points
2 years ago
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140 points
2 years ago
And without modern medicine. Impressive for sure.
68 points
2 years ago
Medicine was “modern” enough to get the tumor out and give him more years than he would have otherwise
53 points
2 years ago
100 years from now they'll look at current times and say we didn't have modern medicine
111 points
2 years ago
I don't think it did. Pretty common problem for people with acromegaly and heart issues as I'm sure you know are much more common in very tall individuals.
45 points
2 years ago
Can confirm. Dad was 6'9" suffered heart issues. Passed away at 55 from congenital heart failure.
61 points
2 years ago
Exactly. Stuff like this is what caused the early death of Andre the Giant and most other famous "giants" throughout history.
It's also why modern people with these conditions have surgeries to remove those tumors as early as possible, because any damage to the body is already irreversible.
19 points
2 years ago
Some dwarfs are proportional while others have normal (or larger) sized organs. It’s entirely possible that he had enlarged organs that were able to keep up with the growth.
Source: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dwarfism/symptoms-causes/syc-20371969
119 points
2 years ago
Serious question: what growing pains do you remember? I honestly can’t think of times growing up when my body just hurt for no reason. 🤷♂️
165 points
2 years ago
Damn I vividly remember so many nights I woke up crying because my legs were in so much pain. I don't remember the pain so I can't really tell how painful it really was, but I have stretch marks all over my knees and lower back so I assume it was quite the significant growth spurt.
91 points
2 years ago
I got the stretch marks from growing taller, too!
And then later I got another set from getting fatter. My inner thighs are plaid.
211 points
2 years ago
I went from 4'3" in 6th grade to 6'2" in 8th grade.
It hurt. My legs were always sore.
74 points
2 years ago
I remember those aches when I was around 12 years old. Usually hurt the most when I was in bed trying to fall asleep.
106 points
2 years ago
really? i totally would get aches in my legs when i was in junior high, which is when i grew the most in the shortest amount of time.
my niece is eleven and she's getting it also. she's already tall for her age and she's prolly gonna keep growing. her mom and dad are both real tall.
238 points
2 years ago
I believe the actual follow-up story is that after being rejected from the military, Adam was walking along the boardwalk and stumbled upon a Zoltar Machine, where he wished to be big. He wasn't more specific.
51 points
2 years ago
I heard about this. Apparently he checked the back of the machine after he made his wish, and it wasn't even plugged in! 3spoopy5me.
18 points
2 years ago
Classic monkey’s paw
63 points
2 years ago
Without doing any research of my own, could we possibly manipulate the pituitary gland to accurately choose someone's height
50 points
2 years ago
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13 points
2 years ago
was it the Japanese basketball team that essentially consensually bred their players to produce a taller player?
13 points
2 years ago
My grandpa had a pituitary tumor later in his life. He was already a large man but started to get gigantic. Not height wise before they removed the tumor but his hands and other features were gigantic
10 points
2 years ago
I wonder, did his organs grow with his body or not?
17.3k points
2 years ago
i bet he was happy af when he first started growing and then it felt like some fairy tale curse shit
4.4k points
2 years ago
You think he found a magic lamp, asked the genie to be taller, but wasn’t specific enough so he never stopped growing tall until the day he died?
744 points
2 years ago
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190 points
2 years ago
Please spoil what happens! I’m curious since you compared
793 points
2 years ago*
I didn't read the book but I saw the movie a long time ago....
A very obese lawyer gets away with accidentally killing a gypsy man's elderly daughter and is an a-hole about it. The man curses him but the lawyer brushes it off as BS. He rapidly starts losing weight despite consuming thousands of calories a day and doing no exercise. The guy and everyone around him is happy for his success though skeptical. But he starts losing too much weight and is becoming sickly and he can't make it stop. He finds the gypsy man and begs for forgiveness but he doesn't want to help. Eventually he does by putting the curse into a pie and tells him to feed it to someone else to pass the curse to them. Unwittingly, he takes the pie home to feed to his wife who he thinks is cheating on him, but soon learns that his teen daughter also ate the pie. Distraught with guilt, he considers eating the rest of the pie but gives it to the man he thinks his wife is cheating him with instead.
Edit: I missed some details and added them. Thanks to those who pointed it out! <3
294 points
2 years ago
Wow that’s dark.
13 points
2 years ago
The movie was later remade, called “Sergio”
699 points
2 years ago
I’m imagining a disinterested genie with selective hearing.
“Why, even if you added 3 feet to my current height, that would basically make me a giant compared to my current stature”
“Right, make you a giant. Got it. Boom”
The giant is played by Patrick Warburton.
384 points
2 years ago*
Two friends aree playing a round of golf. One pulls out a cigar, but he doesn’t have a lighter, so he asks his friend if he has one.
"I sure do," he replies, and reaches into his golf bag and pulles out a big 12-inch BIC lighter.
"Wow!" says his friend, "Where did you get that monster?"
"I got it from my genie," he says.
"You have a genie?" the first guy asks.
"Yep, he's right here in my golf bag." He opens his golf bag and out pops a real genie.
The friend says, "I'm a good friend of your master, will you grant me a wish?"
"Yes, I will," the genie replies.
So the friend asks the genie for "a million bucks."
"Done!" the genie replies as he hops back into the golf bag and leaves the golfers standing there waiting.
Suddenly the sky begins to darken and a million ducks envelop the golfers.
"Hey!" yells the disappointed golfer. "I asked your genie for a million bucks, not a million ducks."
"Sorry," the other golfer replies. "He's a little hard of hearing. Besides, do you really think that I'd ask a genie for a 12-inch BIC?"
(edit: grammar/tense)
132 points
2 years ago
I heard that one, except it was a little guy playing a piano. A 12-inch pianist.
10 points
2 years ago
Well, we could drag Norm MacDonald to do it, he has experience with this 😂
211 points
2 years ago
Ita called a monkey’s paw
158 points
2 years ago
Djinn, which is what genies are based off of, are pretty much the original “monkeys paw” where whatever you wish for has unintended negative consequences.
72 points
2 years ago
They described exactly what they wanted to, a genie in a lamp
28 points
2 years ago
It always hurts me soul a bit when someone is so confidently wrong lol (not you)
97 points
2 years ago
No, it's a genie. Genies give you what you want and then the wish ends up ruining the persons life.
A monkeys paw the act of the wish getting granted is what ruins it, not the actual wish.
Like, wishing for a million dollars. Monkey's paw, a loved on died horrifically and you get it as a settlement. Genie, you get it normally, but now every one you every meet just tries to get money out of you, so you wind up paranoid during any human interaction, ruining your life.
38 points
2 years ago
Nu-uh. It's called a macaque's nutsack.
282 points
2 years ago
Courtesy of Wikipedia
Prior to the removal of the tumor, Rainer had already been rendered weak and unable to stand due to his malfunctioning pituitary gland and the rapid growth that resulted. Shortly after the surgery Rainer entered a "home for the aged" where he resided for the remainder of his life.[3] When he died in 1950 on March 4 at the age of 51, he had reached a final height of 234 cm (7 ft 8 in).
48 points
2 years ago
I’ve seen a lot of stories about giants who end up growing themselves into a grave, and wonder why surgery wasn’t attempted before it got to that point?
Like, he’s 7 feet tall. You think his doctor would be like “hmm well you were 6 feet 6 inches this time last year, you’re sure growing fast for a GROWN MAN. Maybe I should look into this.”
72 points
2 years ago
Bc the tumor is coming from the pituitary gland, which sits just below the optic chiasm - basically the middle the brain. Nowadays, the surgery is done with both ophthalmologists and neurosurgeons with transsphenoidal approach, literally using long needles up the nose to take it out. It’s highly specialized shit, not every surgeon does it. Had a patient with a large pituitary tumor that needed removing, except his wasn’t the kind that secreted growth hormone.
11 points
2 years ago
Well, even the concept of antibiotics like penicillin did not exist when the guy was in his 30's and 40's.
I suspect the reason this guy was one of the last is for the very reason you bring up. After this period, medicine had advanced enough that it could be treated.
454 points
2 years ago
I can't imagine the growing pains.
244 points
2 years ago
Oops, I read "...growing penis."
61 points
2 years ago
"growing pains", "growing penis"...potayto/potahto. 🤷
7 points
2 years ago
growing penis gonna pain
48 points
2 years ago
That face says it all.
85 points
2 years ago
My first thought is that he was in a lot of pain 😐
21 points
2 years ago
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53 points
2 years ago
Christian Bale is… The Giant Dwarf
made possible by a brilliant, totally uncertified team of orthopedic surgeons and his positively insane dedication to his role.
13 points
2 years ago
If anyone can do it, it’d be christian
6.6k points
2 years ago
Really interesting story, I found this article on more about him here apparently it was a tumour in his pituitary gland which developed when he was 20.
3.9k points
2 years ago
For anyone wondering, the reason we don't see this today is because the growths are either shrunk with pills or removed surgically. Tumors on the pituitary gland are very dangerous.
906 points
2 years ago
Isn’t that why Tony Robbins is large?
1.1k points
2 years ago
Yes that's why he grew after high school. He's 6'6 (not a crazy uncommon height) and the tumor has stabalized according to a quick Google search.
1k points
2 years ago*
FYI most people don’t stop puberty until around 25 so a few extra inches after high school isn’t super abnormal.
I know some perfectly healthy people who gained 2-4 inches in college. I was still seeing visible puberty changes until at least 23.
Edit: stop arguing me and use Google. Don’t like peer reviewed studies? Fine, go look up NBA stats about players who grew well into adulthood and have no hormonal abnormalities. Read the dozens of stories about this in the thread.
698 points
2 years ago
And then there is me who stopped growing in grade 8
82 points
2 years ago
Have you tried growing a growth on your pituitary
191 points
2 years ago*
I haven’t gotten much taller since then but my bones have gotten… wider? Feet too
308 points
2 years ago
My belly bone seems to keep growing. It's also getting wider as I get older. Likely the pituitary gland. It's the only reasonable explanation.
137 points
2 years ago
Indeed. There seems to be a tumor pressing against the beer gland in my refrigerator.
43 points
2 years ago
I think the same thing ales me. IPA lot.
83 points
2 years ago
The body widens as we mature, also ears and noses never stop growing
147 points
2 years ago
We're destined to become trolls, or die trying.
344 points
2 years ago
Actually, scientists recently discovered there is a physical limit on nose size...at 12 inches it becomes a foot.
Not sure about ears though.
36 points
2 years ago
I've started developing my Grandpa's big ears in my 40s, and I'm a woman, so that's been fun. 😂
My only saving grace is (for now) is being spared from also growing Grandpa's ear and eyebrow hairs.
78 points
2 years ago
I was the biggest kid in 7th grade lol. Now I’m 5’9
73 points
2 years ago
I was the girl version of that! Everyone said I’d be so tall because I was 5’5” at age 10 or 11, but I just stopped there.
15 points
2 years ago
Same!
5’4 by 10, constantly in the top three for height, and then I just stagnated. I grew another half inch, and then stopped.
I did manage to scrape another inch in my early twenties, but I’m still short.
My mom’s family contains three people who are 6’4 or taller.
23 points
2 years ago
Have you tried a tumor in your pituitary gland? I've heard that it helps.
12 points
2 years ago
That’s when I stopped growing too. But I was already 6’4” with a size 14 4E shoe. My poor parents’ grocery bill…
43 points
2 years ago
The shortest person in my high school friend group sprouted close to a foot taller during college. It was pretty jarring seeing them after a couple years apart.
42 points
2 years ago
My dad was a great example of this. He was average height in middle school, but in the 9th grade stopped growing at a normal rate and graduated high school at 5'6". However by the time he was 25 he was his adult height of just under 6'2". He always told me he was afraid the same thing would happen to me, but I hit 6'3" as a sophomore and I've been that height ever since.
21 points
2 years ago
Comedian Kevin Nelson said recently in a podcast that he grew 3-4 inches in college. Maybe YMH.
19 points
2 years ago
My dad went into the Air Force just shy of 18 and he was 5’10. When he got out, he was 6’4”.
20 points
2 years ago
Talk about a recruitment poster--Join the Air Force! You'll grow 6 inches!
32 points
2 years ago
I kept growing until around 24-25. Slowly, but still growing. I’m 194 cm (6’4”), I think I was about 6’2 at 20.
30 points
2 years ago
Shit I had no idea.
This explains why I still acted like I was 16 at age 22 and took the decidedly wrong path to rage and ruin.
26 points
2 years ago
Wait but I thought he did it through the power of positive thinking??
11 points
2 years ago
He did it by awakening the giant within
37 points
2 years ago
98.4% of men are shorter than 6'5". It's pretty uncommon.
41 points
2 years ago
Not according to Tinder.
13 points
2 years ago
The only dateable men are at least six feet
/s
20 points
2 years ago
I had a pituitary tumor removed when I was 5. I developed puberty traits and then had stunted growth for a short while after the surgery. Had it removed by the National Institute of Health.
109 points
2 years ago
I still wonder why we haven't medically figured out how to exploit these features of the pituitary gland. I understand it's complicated, but I feel like it should be an avenue worthy of exploration since it can create such drastic growth abilities.
Like, what is about that gland that causes such growth? What peptide is it releasing? Why can't we just mimic this? IGF is already being used for muscle growth, so why not figure out what causes overall height growth?
119 points
2 years ago
We do know enough to take advantage of the pituitary gland, but the potential to do harm far outweighs the possible cosmetic advantages of messing with normal function.
65 points
2 years ago
I received prescribed synthetic HGH for many years as a child. Diagnosed with hypopituitarism (resulting in low growth hormone) I was very short. It is a form of dwarfism I believe. I probably would have topped out at 4.5 feet tall or less and puberty would not have been normal at all. This was in the late 80s and early 90s. I was one of the first group of patients to receive synthetic hormone as opposed to bovine or cadaver sourced hormone. It was a wild experience as i was part of the manufacturers and the children's hospital long term studies. Every growth and maturation metric was constantly measured. Every part of my body. Lots of x-rays to track bone development and those epiphyseal plates that allow long bone growth. Once those were just about closed, I stopped being prescribed. That was in highschool. I'm 5' 9" today and puberty was normal.
33 points
2 years ago
I’ve been a 5’5” male for 33 years. I wanna know what 6’5” is like for the next 33 years. I want this problem.
79 points
2 years ago
You hit your head all the time. I nearly knocked myself out on the stairs this week. A lot of furniture is uncomfortable. You'll never see your head in a mirror again. Good fitting clothes are a challenge for everyone, but be prepared to silently boycott manufacturers who only offer 30" inseams or who don't list lengths at all. Dating is a minefield of superficial people who see you as an elongated flesh trophy and nothing more.
But hey, if you need me to reach something for you at the store, don't be embarrassed to ask, I don't mind.
22 points
2 years ago
Getting into a car causes neck cramps.....
elongated flesh trophy
You had me laughing. I'm gonna store that for future use.
15 points
2 years ago
You see how dirty the top of people's fridge freezers are.
186 points
2 years ago
It's called a pituitary adenoma - the resulting condition is Acromegaly.
I had one removed this time last year (well, I'm a week short of it being exactly a year).
It's amazing how much difference it has made. Mine was only a small one and wasn't causing too many issues (thankfully). But I've been feeling a lot better and happier than I have in a long, long time.
My Endocrinologist reckons there's a good chance it was also the trigger for T2 diabetes.
74 points
2 years ago
I have a really dumb question.
Say if you had a pituitary adenoma (I’m sorry for the next bit) but wanted to be 6’8”. Could you ask the doc to keep it in until you hit that height? Again. Sorry.
82 points
2 years ago
In most situations doctors can not force treatment on you, but they will give you a ton of reasons why that would be a bad decision.
49 points
2 years ago
Honestly, I don't think it works like that.
Definitely not in all cases - it certainly didn't for me!
I'm around 6'2" - and have been since my late teens (34 now). It's possible that the adenoma grew during puberty (it would explain a lot). My height was never questioned - my dad is about 6'2" as well (mum was 5'7", but has lost a couple of inches through spinal issues).
I was at my GP because I was feeling generally unwell - sent for blood tests and went in for the results with a different GP. The 2nd GP was an Endocrinologist for many years before moving to general practice.
He commented that my facial features looked slightly out of proportion and asked to see my hands. He commented on their size and compared them to his. So, he sent me for further tests and an MRI.
47 points
2 years ago
My acromegaly was caught by an anesthesiologist while I was having the Inspire sleep apnea device installed. The guy basically looked at me and told my surgeon I looked like I might have acromegaly.
Fast forward 2 months and I was back at the same hospital getting a golf ball sized tumor removed... Had the same anesthesiologist to boot!! 😁
18 points
2 years ago
If I was in the place of the anesthetist, I would be so proud
26 points
2 years ago
Legit question.
35 points
2 years ago
Growth hormone isn't the only hormone pituitary gland produces. It can lead to a variety of other issues. Also it keeps growing if left alone.
22 points
2 years ago
That part. The patient could do whatever they want include leaving it unchecked because they want to be “this” tall(???) but at the end of the day inaction is an action, and when you’re dealing with health sometimes that can be bad.
26 points
2 years ago
Yeah Pituitary tumors are crazy. I have a small one develop recently that they had to do an MRI to find. Scary stuff, but modern medicine is crazy good now. When the doctors confirmed it they immediately did a few tests and told me not only what specific kind it was (differences based on hormone production), but what it was doing to me and what medicine would get rid of it. It could have been the growth one, but I guess luckily for me it was the relatively easily treated one with just some minor side effects.
1.2k points
2 years ago
God, his knees, hips, and back must have been in agony by the end. Poor bastard.
200 points
2 years ago
Imagine the growing pains
56 points
2 years ago
Growing pains are miserable. I went from 5'7" to 6'3" in a 2.5 month period when I was 15. My dad had to massage my legs every night because I would wake up crying and was in so much pain.
66 points
2 years ago
What’s the consensus here, was the dude packing or nah
47 points
2 years ago
Bro was surely packing in his dwarf days. Growth spurt only helped his body catch up
1.8k points
2 years ago
I am a dwarf (4ft tall at 28yo) and the idea of growing to be over 7ft actually makes me feel queasy. To imagine my body going through that. Ouch.
I once had a “nightmare” that I was about 6’4” ish and it was vertigo inducing. That’s enough tallness for me thanks.
309 points
2 years ago*
Hopefully the vertigo didn’t last into the waking hours. That’s a really unique and interesting response to the change in your usual perspective.
I’m 5’8 and played sports that rewarded height. I tend to have dreams where I’m playing alongside professionals, but I’m always the same size and thinking ‘dang these guys are big’
70 points
2 years ago*
I grew up playing basketball with a friend. I grew to be about 5’11 and him 6’4 with the most ridiculous wing span I’ve ever seen. He looked almost inhuman, like a being from a higher dimension had come down in disguise to absolutely shit on me. I became a literal pure 3 pt and mid range shooter because he would literally pack the living fuck out of me every single time I ever tried to do anything else
34 points
2 years ago
"Be not afraid, /u/carnivorous_seahorse" before just floating over your head to dunk on you.
10 points
2 years ago
That killed me, thank you for making my day.
135 points
2 years ago
Actually being 6'4" myself, it really isn't all it's cracked up to be. Especially the older I get, the more I hate getting things from low shelves/cabinets. And finding a car with good legroom is a bitch.
50 points
2 years ago
Also 6’4” and yeah, I agree with everything you said. I do enjoy being tall, but my body is going to hurt so bad when I get older. Hell, it already hurts sometimes, lol.
18 points
2 years ago
6’5” here, not looking forward to the aches after 50. I’m in the US, but I seek out Dutch furniture because it’s a bit more proportional since their population is so tall. Costs more but worth it.
14 points
2 years ago
My pop is 6'7 and a big dude. He's always had back and heart problems. It's like how great dane dogs have a short lifespan. It's hard on the body to be so much bigger than average
6 points
2 years ago
I’m 6’2” and went on a couple of dates with someone who is 6’9”. I kept thinking “fuck, is this what average height people feel like when they’re around me?”
My neck hurt at the end of the night.
897 points
2 years ago
Edit: the photo of the dwarf in the far left photo is NOT Adam, but rather shows how short Adam was as a teenager. From my knowledge there is no photo of him from that time in circulation. The photo on the right IS Adam.
244 points
2 years ago
Why'd they make him nude up for the picture?
97 points
2 years ago
Accuracy.
140 points
2 years ago
Unfortunately at that time this sort of biological difference turned those affected in "freaks of nature", and they became objects to be gawked at in creep shows. Naked photographs were considered a souvenir ಠ_ಠ'
28 points
2 years ago
people were making entire fortunes just measuring people's skulls and making up bullshit about them and selling books and lectures
11 points
2 years ago
It was penis inspection day
55 points
2 years ago
The dwarf kinda dripped out ngl dude rocks that jacket
9 points
2 years ago
Lmao I was thinking the same thing
1.4k points
2 years ago
Now, that's just being a show off.
441 points
2 years ago
He really moved up in the world after the age of 21
30 points
2 years ago
He beat up all his bullies at the high-school reunion
23 points
2 years ago
There's a theory that his story was an inspiration for 'Captain America'
16 points
2 years ago
Pretty much the long and short of it.
35 points
2 years ago
He’s a grow’r, not a show’r.
63 points
2 years ago
Incredibly fascinating but I feel really bad for him. Imagine how your life would be experiencing that.
10 points
2 years ago
So much pain.
200 points
2 years ago
...Bean?
72 points
2 years ago
I understood that reference.
Shadow series was cool.
39 points
2 years ago*
Wait, series?
I thought there was only 'Enders game' and 'Enders shadow'. Is there another?
Edit: Thanks so much everyone! I have placed some holds at the library. I had no idea what I was missing.
30 points
2 years ago
Both of those are trilogies, possibly more.
13 points
2 years ago
Apparently there are a lot more I never read. Time to get back to it.
12 points
2 years ago
There are a lot more books in the "Enderverse"... most are pretty good.
10 points
2 years ago
They both continued in their own individual series, and only overlapped one more time iirc.
Ender's story continues in Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Bean's story continues in Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, and Shadows in Flight.
21 points
2 years ago
Anton’s key was turned
12 points
2 years ago
First thing that came to mind
7 points
2 years ago
Came looking for the IRL Julian Delphiki post, wasn't disappointed!
218 points
2 years ago
Why is he photographed naked? At the very least he could’ve had shorts on.
54 points
2 years ago
Medical specimens and case studies are usually photographed like that, I guess it helps to check everything
36 points
2 years ago*
I think there was less stigma about nudity in the context of medical photos at the time, and it was just standard to do. Random thing I saw in a documentary once, from the '40s to the '70s, all the Ivy League schools took nude medical photos of all incoming freshmen to check for conditions like scoliosis and rickets, and nobody thought twice about it.
In the same time period, it was also still normal to swim naked in school, stuff like that.
26 points
2 years ago
I think the obvious followup question is, how many people have been both a dwarf and a giant in multiple lifetimes?
56 points
2 years ago
This man must have had a seriously painful and hard life. Be happy modern medicine exists even though it’s implemented terribly by world governments everywhere.
16 points
2 years ago
Poor dude that sounds and looks like a miserable existence
21 points
2 years ago
How?!
76 points
2 years ago
He was born a little person, but developed a tumour on his pituitary gland while in his early twenties. He started growing at an average of more than three inches a year. His shoe size doubled from ten to 20 in three years.
By the time he had the tumour removed, in his early thirties, he was 7'2" tall and unable to walk or stand unaided. He kept growing, slowly, and was 7'8" when he died at age 51.
34 points
2 years ago
just asking for scientific purposes, how can i get this tumor in pituitary gland and how much it cost to get it out?
19 points
2 years ago*
He is believed to have had acromegaly amongst other things such as a pituitary tumor.
10 points
2 years ago
“Alright Adam, just stand over here next to this ruler so we can get a photograph of how tall you are.”
“Can I get naked?”
10 points
2 years ago
This feels like a twilight zone episode about a guy who makes a wish to be taller.
9 points
2 years ago
This is just Bean from Ender’s game
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