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I've seen a lot of people on here asking questions who are like 13 and 5"9 and 14 and like 5"8. Well, I'm 5"4, and I know I'm going to be tall when I grow up, like 5"9 or so. So anyway, like no one I know looks like they're done growing at 5"10 or whatever. Is it normal for me not to be done growing and for others to be? Isn't it sort of early for people to be done growing at 5"10 when you're only like 13 or 14?

I'm 16 and I'm 5'3 and a half. I was 5'3 in seventh grade. I haven't grown taller in about 2 years. You never know what's going to happen. And I don't know how you know you're going to be tall. Even if both of your parents are tall, they could carry a recessive short gene and that's what you could have gotten. Also, if a doctor predicted your height, that doesn't mean anything either. When I was 11ish, the doctor told me I should grow to be about 5'8-5'9. I'm only 5'3. No one knows for sure. Don't worry if you're still growing, it's completely normal. No one grows at the same rate, so don't use others for means of comparison.

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(Rating: 5) Yeah, doctors can tell about how tall you'll be by the length of your forearm bone or something and mine is like 10 1/2 in. long.
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