Connecting with the community! Medically a dwarf, technically a little too tall
Hello!
I have pituitary dwarfism. It's genetic, my younger brother and I both have it. Our pituitary glands are much smaller than they should be. As far as we can tell the growth hormone is the only thing that wasn't done properly, though once we became adults it seems doctors fully stopped caring about our conditions. That's a separate story though.
I was put on hormone replacement therapy as a child, and today I'm 5'3. I've always referred to myself as a dwarf, since I have the medical condition and am very small compared to the average person. But since medical intervention pushed me past the 4'10 legal definition I keep reading about, I've always been a little nervous about whether this is appropriate or not. So I came here for 2 main reasons:
to check that my use of the word dwarf is okay
to hopefully connect to a community that will understand some of my struggles as someone with this condition. I have great friends and a loving fiancé, but they don't always understand how frustrating it can be when I'm just seen as a tiny thing when I'm trying to be taken seriously
In truth, my first draft was a weepy rant about some of the ways it has affected me, but I decided it would be much nicer to introduce myself on a more positive note.