This is my 3rd time posting here on this site. I come to this website because we all are in the same boat. We all have the same situation. I feel like we can help each other out and I feel like I can get the most advice from this website than any other. To get to the point, I am 17 years old, senior in high school. I started obsessing over height when I was 15. I was 5’8 when I was 15. Yes I know what you all will say. “5’8 is not that short”. We will get to that in a moment though. At the age of 15 I always said to myself how I can still grow to be 5’11-6’0. I waited constantly every day in order for this dream to come true. At this age I was pretty looking foward to growing. Lets timeskip to age 16. I am still 5’8 and I have not grown. I am starting to become very worried. Height is constantly in my minds. Constantly. It would not go away no matter what. All my friends that I hang out with are over 6 feet with the shortest one being 5’10. Whenever I walk in the halls, every kid is taller than me. The only people that were shorter than me were Mexicans and sometimes Asians. It was hitting me real hard. It was getting extremely serious. I knew I had to do something because I cannot accept a body like this. I tried everything from stretching 45 minutes a day, kickboxing 1000 times with each leg, and sneaking in strange “grow taller” supplements which I believed tend to work. Yes I was indeed an idiot. Nothing was working. Every night before I went to sleep I pulled my hair and screamed like a psycho. I cried a little bit also. Yeah, I cried indeed, every night. Not a manly thing but I could not take it. My mom took me to a doctor and I found out that my growth plates have closed when we took an X-ray. When the doctor told me that I stopped growing, I sat there shocked. I did not look good in the office. The doctor asked me if I was okay because I was absolutely not feeling okay after what she just told me. I successfully however left the office without having a mental breakdown. When we were in the car driving back home I was screaming. I could not get over it. There was absolutely no way. I had to be stuck in a child’s body forever. I am now 17 years old. I will be turning 18 in a couple months. Nearly 3 years of this mental torture. Now, I can go way more on with this story but let me move on to the important part. I don’t have a problem with my height because of dating. This has nothing to do with any of this. The thing is, I am nearly an adult and I am at this height. It is very humiliating. Everyone has dreams of becoming rich and famous when I only had one dream. That was to be 6’0. The thing is that, I feel like I do not fit in this body. It does not look right. I need to be at least 6 feet. I am tired of having short arms short legs and a short torso. I can imagine myself at 6’0 being so much better. I do not think my words can explain the amount of torture that I am facing every day. 5’8 won’t work for me. I am short. I don’t care what you all say ( actually I do because I need your advice ) because 5’8 is short. I hate it. I don’t care what google says. The average man is not 5’9. That’s maybe the case since there are mexicans and short asians here. Nearly ALL the white americans are over 6 feet at my school. I am reaching my limit. For real. In a couple months, I may make a trip to the gun store to buy some revlover and ck it to my head. I can ot do it in this body. I cant face the fact that I am always the shortest ones in the hall. I cannot stop thinking about how much better I would be if I was taller. Now I just want to ask you all a favor. If you all are going to type “Get over it” “Be more confident” “You have other issues not just height” and other stuff like that, this just shows that you are arrogant and uncaring. Any advice other than this would be appreciated. I do not know what to do anymore. Life seems very tough when you are not tall.