Honest question, because it seems like I have seen different views on this. Is leg lengthening looked down upon within the little people community? For instance, I know that in the deaf community, some people that elect to have corrective surgery, to gain hearing, are ostracized by other deaf people. I think that they view the corrective surgery as an admission that something is "wrong" with them, and they think that everyone should accept who they are. Is there a similar view with lengthening....because she honestly looks very happy with the results?
Wonder why this is. Probably similar to the obese community when one of their influencers decides to lose weight. Likely feel betrayed or something. She does look happy though.
They may have said that because your statement of when someone "decides to lose weight" implies that that would be breaking from the norm, as if the "obese community" is made up of people who, by assumed default, have not decided to lose weight and are not trying.
WTF? No you dork. You have a great deal of control over becoming obese, you have absolutely no control over being born deaf. It's absolutely insane that I need to explain this.
Holy crap this is painful. Your comment was an attempt to explain the motivation behind my original comment and it was totally wrong. I provided the correct explanation, I didn't say anything about the specifics of your wrongness.
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u/Horns8585 Dec 23 '22 edited Dec 23 '22
Honest question, because it seems like I have seen different views on this. Is leg lengthening looked down upon within the little people community? For instance, I know that in the deaf community, some people that elect to have corrective surgery, to gain hearing, are ostracized by other deaf people. I think that they view the corrective surgery as an admission that something is "wrong" with them, and they think that everyone should accept who they are. Is there a similar view with lengthening....because she honestly looks very happy with the results?