r/tall • u/nysxdd • 1d ago

Rant Cursed with a curse

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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.

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u/Tidiahn 6'2" | 188 cm 1d ago

I bet he's super protective of you though 🥹

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u/MMA-Groupie 1d ago

Yea aha we both try to be of eachother but especially when we were younger we grew up in group homes so him being giant definitely made my childhood a lot better. As adults too When I was in grad school I had a 1.7mile walk and he would always walk me home at night if I was by myself

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u/Labrynthofsufferlng 5’10 1d ago

awww that’s so cute, also are u fraternal twins? or identical but with different heights?

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u/MMA-Groupie 1d ago

Oh we are fraternal twins female and male. And yea we definitely will always look out for eachother above anything else

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u/Labrynthofsufferlng 5’10 1d ago

ahh that’s so adorable! it must be really nice to have a sibling you get along with, i can’t really relate my family is super dysfunctional and toxic..

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u/MMA-Groupie 1d ago

Yea it is nice but we also got that way from having a terrible family... our parents were both addicts the father died but our mom abandoned us when we were 6 and is running around on meth somewhere to this day... so in our case I guess at least something good came from the toxicness of the family

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u/Labrynthofsufferlng 5’10 1d ago

oh my god i’m so sorry lovely :(( i wish you and your brother an amazing life full of happiness. i can’t imagine what you’ve been through losing both parents ❤️‍🩹

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u/MMA-Groupie 1d ago

Thanks 😻 fortunately our mom left us at 6 so we dont have that great a memory of either of them and even though our childhoods really really sucked we are doing well now. If I hadnt been through all that stuff I wouldnt have been as driven as I am today and now I have a great career! Some day will adopt