As a baby I was born with a pituitary issue which meant my hands and feet were abnormally small. They never grew that large at all. I can run and walk fine and they’re not deformed or anything, just tiny. I might have some weird world record for smallest hands and feet on a fully grown adult!

  • @[email protected]
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    654 days ago

    In some dark corner of the internet, there is someone willing to pay a LOT of money for videos of you doing weird shit with your feet.

      • @SinningStromgald
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        Not that dark at all. Its called OnlyFans. Although I am sure more “specific” communities more devoted to feet could yield better income. Where those are? No idea. I can barely stand the sight of my own feet without socks.

        • ivanafterall ☑️
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          I can barely stand the sight of my own feet without socks.

          Color me intrigued.

          • @SinningStromgald
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            I don’t like feet. Not all that interesting really. Just a personal quirk.

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    Do you work at Dunder Mifflin ? Or is this standard office decor in America ?

  • Stern
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    You know what they say about guys with tiny feet…

    They have a helluva time finding shoes that fit right.

    • @greedytacothief
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      A friend of mine has trouble with that. Women’s shoes are usually the right length, but they are skinner than men’s shoes

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      64 days ago

      As someone with moderately long but exceptionally wide feet, having tiny feet seems like it’d be much easier to find shoes that fit…

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        23 days ago

        Do EE shoes work for you? A couple of work shoe/boot outlets by me are always full of those sizes.

        I’m US11 and have super narrow feet, and have a hard time finding shoes that don’t wobble around on me at those stores.

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          4E, lol

          It’s rare that even a website will have the size/length combination I need, let alone a store! Haha

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              Thank you for recommending New Balance. I’d been mostly stuck with Underarmour running shoes. I don’t know how much I can benefit from XLFeet.com though as I live in Canada.

              I can at least find brands that offer 4E though. Thank you!

  • @greedytacothief
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    You should snowboard! I’ve got size 12 and I’m always getting toe and heel drag when I carve too deep. But you would never need to worry about that. Fucking super power.

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      63 days ago

      Yeah for sure. I wanted to go snowboarding once but the rental place only went down to a kid’s size 4 which was too big for me (I’m really a size 2 without orthotics). So if I could find boots that fit, I’d be up for it!

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    Lucky bastard, kids shoes are tax free!

    I know this cos my wife has got 34 feet too and is delighted every time she finds a bargain

    • @MinorLaceration
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      You guys really deserve that tax break given how expensive it must be to buy all 34 shoes for your wife.

      • ivanafterall ☑️
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        Even at just five bucks a shoe, that’s $170 every time you go shoe shopping. Brutal. OP’s wife must be 4.25 octopuses.

        • @model_tar_gz
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          Octopuses wouldn’t wear shoes so the math doesn’t add up.

          Now spiders—spiders would wear some stylish kicks you know, not just any $5 shoe.

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    Reverse hobbit!

    Glad to see you take your uniqueness in stride.

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      I was thinking mountain goat. Need those smaller feet to stand on narrow ledges.

      • @Ceedoestrees
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        He could be the monster in a climbing based horror franchise.

        Born with small feet, he was banished to the mountains where he turned his curse into a means for survival.

        Wide shot of a group of hunters following a trail near a rock face

        “I thought it was wolves eat’n all them sheep. Couldn’t have imagined that small feet kid lived all those years out here alone.”

        “It’s a confounding thought, Emmit, how you think that thing managed?”

        “Boy howdy, that’s the mystery of it all. Maybe we ought not to know.”

        Pan up to show small feet guy perched on a narrow rock ledge above. He jumps down, fade to black over hunters screaming.

        “This summer, remember to look up.”

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    I just don’t get how all of your other bones grew while your hands and feet didn’t. Your pituitary just outputs growth hormone (among other things), and then your liver converts that to the more active form, igf1. Seems like there must have been some lowered expression of igf1 in the bones of your hands and feet somehow which would be neat

    When you shake people’s hands, does it ever throw people off?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      254 days ago

      Yes that’s essentially what’s happened. And yes, definitely throws people off. Everyone’s hands inevitably swallow mine during handshakes.

      • @MutilationWave
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        An old friend of mine was born with two fingers and a thumb on his right hand. Instead of awkward left hand handshakes he just owns it and freaks people out.

        • @Ceedoestrees
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          A friend of a friend was born without arms and he does the same thing. His is up there on my list of most fascinating handshakes. He doesn’t pay bus fare either.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      174 days ago

      Yes thinking about this as a treat for my birthday coming up. I have a few pairs of kid’s dress shoes but they’re pretty clunky - mostly designed for kids to wear at church. Near impossible to find something more stylish.

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    We need more pics of your feet and had next to other people’s ones… or bananas for scale.

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        This actually gave me a much better perspective, cause I couldn’t really tell from the original photo. And holy crow, that’s kinda wild! I would absolutely be wearing the coolest kids shoes

        Does it cause you any issues with gait/balance? Or anything else most people wouldn’t think about?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          Not as many issues as you might think. Of course, I have a smaller foot surface area to work with so not as steady on my toes but I have strong foot and calf muscles to compensate I think and keep me relatively stable. I can run fine but kid’s shoes are not designed for a 6’1" 170 lb man to be running in them so I go through shoes like crazy. Mostly it’s just social issues - my feet and hands are quite noticeably small so I get comments from strangers a lot. But I just try to laugh it off and be good humored about it.

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    I must have stolen your hand and foot growth. I’m 5’3 (160 cm) and wear a women’s size 12 (euro 42).