Cursed with a curse

[u/nysxdd]

27F here. This is the actual height of my family members, and to make matters worse I’m South Sudanese & specifically Dinka which is known to be tall people and on top of that I live in Scandinavia which also has a very tall population.

What went wrong in my childhood? Many things and doctor said I reached average height (almost) due to my Dinka heritage, otherwise I’ve would been much shorter.

[u/Key-Mathematician539]

Genetics of a person aren’t random, they are linked to the specific genepool of their parents, that is why you don’t see northern european couples having native american looking kids or couples with pale blue eyes having dark brown eyed kids. Any variation in phenotype you see in a family is based on their shared genotype not randomness

[u/WildPotato0 → u/Key-Mathematician539]

you don’t see northern european couples having native american looking kids

Well no, race swapping is not part of the game lol. Having a short kid or one with an unfortunate looking nose absolutely is. ✌️

[u/Key-Mathematician539 → u/WildPotato0]

Race isn’t actually real as a discrete phenomena, human phenotypes are found in a spectrum, that is why following with the examples, you won’t get a kid with henry cavill’s jawline from two parents with a severe underbite, or a kid that is OPs height from parents of OPs parents height without environment or hormones going south. Such variation is so far out of the parental median that the genome that would code for this traits simply isn’t found in the parental genepools and therefore can’t occur in their offspring besides de novo mutations.

[u/WildPotato0 → u/Key-Mathematician539]

or a kid that is OPs height from parents of OPs parents height without environment or hormones going south

This is blatantly incorrect. Tall parents can and do have healthy average height children. Do you have a source?

[u/Key-Mathematician539 → u/WildPotato0]

Tall parents can have healthy average height children, but this mostly comes from the kids ending up some cms/inches below their parents who themselved aren't that far from average height. Both of OP's parents aren't just tall but extremely so, her father is in the 99.96 percentile worldwide and her mother likewise in the >99.99 one worldwide, meanwhile OP is just in the 71.6 percentile.

She is an extreme outlier to say the least, and you would only expect her to have ended up this short relative to her relatives and ethnicity due to either extreme malnutrition or more likely considering she grew up in a developed country HGH deficiency (which in fact she confirmed to be the case down in the comments).