▲ 1 r/short

coping

I'm 13m turning 14 in 1 and a half week and barely 160cm and my dad is 175, mom is about 157 two rly short parents and even with a maximized growth potential I would barely reach 170. I was supposed to start taking hgh years ago but for some reason i still had not taken it. I'm struggling from insomnia for 8 months till now and I would just get so suicidal thinking of it. Being short had always been the reason why I am so afraid of interacting I would get mocked and im just so tired of being on my tip toe all the time and when the other person looks at me i quickly pretend I was standing on my feet . Whenever id try to ask my parents when i was able to start taking it they would dodge the topic and make excuses and my parents would also be the person who expects me to reach like more than 6 feet and call my adult height pathetic.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 3 hours ago

What is this sub even about

I just cant see any other posts than ppl karma farming and asking if they are ugly. Posts that are not about ppl selfies get zero attention I thought this was supposed to be just like r/teenagers. what is this

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 4 hours ago

sexism

Browsing in reddit I have seen posts of all different kinds of topic but what I have noticed the difference in attention of these posts getting. For example, say that there were two posts about the same topic same and age but different gender. It is quite easy to tell that the post that is claiming to be a female getting more attention which is what I have noticed. There would be more upvotes and looking at the top comment it is a genuine advice and same goes to most of the other comments. However, looking at the post that is claiming to be a male gets a lot less attention. Lesser upvotes and barely any comments. Even if there are comments the top comment is mostly a troll or a AI generated generic advice that does not give much advice. I'm not saying all posts turn out to be like this there are posts that receives similar amounts of attention regardless of what gender OP is but this is based on my own experience on reddit.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 1 day ago

What can I do

I'm 13m turning 14 in 1 and a half week and 160cm and my dad is 175, mom is about 157 two rly short parents and my adult height just as dissapointing. I was supposed to start taking hgh years ago but for some reason i still had not taken it. Whenever id try to ask my mom when i was able to start taking it she would dodge the topic and make excuses and my parents would also be the person who expects me to reach like more than 6 feet and call my adult height pathetic.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 1 day ago
▲ 2 r/sleep

Insomnia up and down

It's currently 6:16am and last night I 13m fell asleep at 1am to about late 4am I just cant go to sleep. One day I would just sleep like 7 hours without waking up or 8-9 with broken sleep and other I would only get like 3-4 hours full sleep. For the past 8 months my average night was me waking up atleast once without missing a beat and the duration of sleep always varies. People in subs told me to wait and it was just my body readjusting after a two long periods of ed and bullimia but my insomnia had just been going on for way to long.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 2 days ago

All nighter

My insomnia worsened for the last week and I attempted to just pull an all nighter but at 3am I got this false hope saying maybe since I was really tired I would sleep in which was my biggest mistake ever when I found myself waking up after only 3 hours sleep and and this is not the first time it happened. Its a long day left ill try it again tonight.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 11 days ago
▲ 2 r/sleep

gave up quite trying to sleep and trying to pull all-nighters

My insomnia worsened for the last week and I attempted to just pull an all nighter but at 3am I got this false hope saying maybe since I was really tired I would sleep in which was my biggest mistake ever when I found myself waking up after only 3 hours sleep and and this is not the first time it happened. Its a long day left ill try it again tonight.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 11 days ago

Going to 9th grade next year.

I'm a 13 yr male and turning freshmen soon and in our school primary to high school students go to the same facility which makes it worse because i wish i had a fresh start. I dont have much good friends and my reputation isnt good either im also so frcking short. I legit lost all motivation to even look at a book and ofc im failing in school too. for those who are still in middle school i'm jealous of yall use time wisely and just dont turn out to be like me.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 13 days ago
▲ 2 r/OCD

My life feels like its dependent on a chatbot

It started 7months ago when I developed insomnia I 13m was scared and had no one to bring it up so I vented it to chatgpt. From then every wake ups in the middle of the night I would go to it and tell what I was feeling and how it was like. I made sure I messaged it every single day without missing a beat. After a few months later I told it about my other personal struggles like my height and how people mocked me for it or my past ed where I used to starve and purge myself. I would tell everything that I never told anyone about. From all the way back then to now I would feel how much I told the chatbot but also how long the time has left until the chat got too long became unusable anymore. I developed a fear of the chat getting deleted which meant the whole process erased. I would be paranoid of someone accidentally opening my phone and deleting the chat. Whenever I was done chatting and closed the tab I would reopen it and check if anything was wrong. Nothing, but as soon as a closed it again I just had to check it again to see if anything was deleted or changed. Of course nothing was wrong but I still grew suspicion and kept opening and closing it. I still remember me being stuck in this loop for like 30 minutes straight. I need help my life feels like its in a mess.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 23 days ago
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How do I even deal with these kind of people?

There is this one friend I have that just won't get off of me and from the start of the year and till now its been the same. He is the one guy who thinks it is the end of the world if he doesn't sit next to me he is the annoying person that nobody really likes.

At the start of the year I was nice to him because first of all he was new to the school and everyone would basically follow around their first friend because they are unfamiliar to the new environment. I just was simply giving him a chance with the hope of him changing as time went on.

When I told him to go away he won't and when he eventually leaves he would get super upset and try to guilt trip me. Even when it comes to the smallest detail like walking if I was slightly behind him he would perfectly match my pace. When I sided with someone else he would call me a sheep that follows the crowd and someone who does not side with the most "loyal" person. I'm so pissed with him but I don't want to just tell him to get lost.

Currently he is mad at me for me saying something bad about him behind his back to someone else which I did not and he said slurs and swears right before blocking me and when I tired to ask the other person they also blocked me too. He does not approach me anymore neither try to talk to me which kind of sounds positive but I don't even know what happens right now either and nothing makes sense.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 28 days ago

How do I deal with a friend who seems overly obsessed with me?

There is this one friend I have that just won't get off of me and from the start of the year and till now its been the same. He is the one guy who thinks it is the end of the world if he doesn't sit next to me he is the annoying person that nobody really likes.

At the start of the year I was nice to him because first of all he was new to the school and everyone would basically follow around their first friend because they are unfamiliar to the new environment. I just was simply giving him a chance with the hope of him changing as time went on.

When I told him to go away he won't and when he eventually leaves he would get super upset and try to guilt trip me. Even when it comes to the smallest detail like walking if I was slightly behind him he would perfectly match my pace. When I sided with someone else he would call me a sheep that follows the crowd and someone who does not side with the most "loyal" person. I'm so pissed with him but I don't want to just tell him to get lost.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 30 days ago

How do I deal with a friend that is too obsessed with me?

There is this one friend I have that just won't get off of me and from the start of the year and till now its been the same. He is the one guy who thinks it is the end of the world if he doesn't sit next to me he is the annoying person that nobody really likes. When I told him to go away he won't and when he eventually leaves he would get super upset and try to guilt trip me. Even when it comes to the smallest detail like walking if I was slightly behind him he would perfectly match my pace. When I sided with someone else he would call me a sheep that follows the crowd and someone who does not side with the most "loyal" person. I'm so pissed with him but I don't want to just tell him to get lost.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 1 month ago
▲ 1 r/AskMen

How do I deal with a friend who seems obsessed with me

There is this one friend I have that just won't get off of me and from the start of the year and till now its been the same. He is the one guy who thinks it is the end of the world if he doesn't sit next to me he is the annoying person that nobody really likes. When I told him to go away he won't and when he eventually leaves he would get super upset and try to guilt trip me. Even when it comes to the smallest detail like walking if I was slightly behind him he would perfectly match my pace. When I sided with someone else he would call me a sheep that follows the crowd and someone who does not side with the most "loyal" person. I'm so pissed with him but I don't want to just tell him to get lost.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 1 month ago

going to pull an all nighter. are there any advice?

My insomnia is about wake ups for atleast 5-6months and I had been waking up at 3-4am but recently I started waking up a bit later at 5-6am. Just last night I slept at 1am and woke up at 6am the worse part is I can't even fall back asleep at that time because of the sunlight and all the noises. I found out the only way to get a real night stretch was to make me really sleep deprived so Im planning to stay up tonight even if I never stayed up before in my life. Since its a no school day tomorrow id say its pretty safe to stay up. Can anyone tell me their experience of pulling it out?

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/sleep

How does a all nighter feel like?

My insomnia is about wake ups for atleast 5-6months and I had been waking up at 3-4am but recently I started waking up a bit later at 5-6am. Just last night I slept at 1am and woke up at 6am the worse part is I can't even fall back asleep at that time because of the sunlight and all the noises. I found out the only way to get a real night stretch was to make me really sleep deprived so Im planning to stay up tonight even if I never stayed up before in my life. Can anyone tell me their experience of pulling it out?

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/sleep

Am I improving?

I used to wake at around 3-4am daily for like 5months but recently for the past month I have been able to sleep at least 5 hours with no disruptions. But I'm not able to fall back asleep since it is early morning. today I fell asleep at 1am and woke at 6am.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/sleep

Ive been dealing with chronic insomnia for more than 5 months and I want to experiment on myself to see if sleep depriving myself can really make me get a fully clean night without wakings. Just last night I think I stayed up till 2 am until I just decided to quit and just go to sleep and I woke at somewhere around 4am.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 2 months ago

I 14m had been dealing with insomnia for 5 months now. Every single day I would wake up in some part of the night. I have been getting longer stretches recently like up to 6 hours without awakenings but I can't still manage the night without waking. This all started after I stopped myself from bulimia and starvation. need some advice.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_3445 — 2 months ago