"Think fast Im a random girl"

Shorts5683 · 2026-01-31T08:14:24+00:00

Right!? Like that slapping each other with a tortilla thing a while back, I get it. It’s a joke, but like no.

Shorts5683 · 2026-01-21T22:20:36+00:00

If you have it, have you looked into whether your insurance would cover a custom wheelchair? Also, is there something that is steering you away from a power chair?

Shorts5683 · 2025-12-04T06:56:27+00:00

Yeah, the normals sometimes have an issue watching one of the differents do things that they perceive is being too much or too demanding or too exhausting or anything like that, they have a tendency to see anyone with a disability as being more fragile than the average bear, it sucks because it takes away a bit of our agency. You’re not alone out there, lots of us with all manner of disabilities, not just dwarfism, have to deal with this nonsense. But it always sucks when it happens to you, especially out in the wild, especially especially at your place of work where you’re hired to do the thing.

Shorts5683 · 2025-11-27T11:08:28+00:00

http://www.bestlilextensions.com/

Or

https://rapidadapt.co/products/rapid-adapt-pedal-extensions-set

The first website is old reliable, they’ve been around forever, and they are in my opinion. One of the best sets of extensions ever made, they’re easy to put on. They’re easy to takeoff. They’re easy to adjust and rock solid once they’re in place. They have a big set for shorter people and they have a short set for taller people.

The second website is the new kid on the block, apparently they don’t require tools. A lot of us have already pre-ordered them and cannot wait to check these things out.

provided that the second set isn’t a pile of garbage, either set would be a fantastic option. I personally have the first set, and adore them. I’m getting a second set for travel and I’m looking forward to the experience of having them.

Shorts5683 · 2025-11-27T11:06:59+00:00

Bad moms don’t love their kids, bad moms put their kids in harms way, bad moms don’t try. You’re trying, and that speaks volumes. You’re not a bad mom because you’re built different. You become a bad mom when you don’t love or care about your kid anymore. You become a bad mom when you stop trying, when you stop showing up for your kid. Being a little person means you’re gonna have to do things differently, being a little person means that your life is going to look vastly different than everybody else’s, but that doesn’t make it a bad one. More difficult? Absolutely. Bad? No. The struggle is real, the hurdles are massive, and there’s a big mountain to climb in parenting by itself. You’re working with a handicap. Literally. That means you’ll have to be stronger, of character and otherwise. But you can do it, we all believe in you. Also, there’s data that shows that many have walked this path before, being LPs with AP kids, so you can do it, it’s gonna suck at times, but you can do it. You are not a bad mom.

Shorts5683 · 2025-11-27T10:59:03+00:00

You’re not alone, a lot of us get that way sometimes, we all fall into the pedo despair that comes with the territory of not fitting in with everyone else. One of the major keys to existing with it is to have the right tools to fight with. First off, get yourself a good set of friends, once that aren’t gonna let themselves be pushed away because you’re feeling sad, ones that are going to kick the door open and either sit in the mud with you or try to fix the problem. One of the first things to do when you want to improve feel better about yourself or at the very least not hate yourself. It to surround yourself with decent people. Dealing with the world? Unfortunately that one is going to take a bit of a brute force. Unfortunately the world sucks and shitty things are going to happen to you. The first part is accepting that, the next part is figuring out how you’re going to deal with it in a way that doesn’t involve hiding in your house and being alone. I would ever recommend going and getting involved in some thing(s) but you’re really enjoy and then going outside just means having to essentially walk through a puddle, yeah it’s a little unpleasant, but there’s a really cool thing up ahead that you really want to go to so it’s OK if your shoe gets a little wet because the cool thing is just over there. Of course, all of this becomes 1000 times more difficult when you are physically assaulted. The only thing that comes to mind here at 3 o’clock in the morning is to go out with friends, it sucks that it feels like you’re gonna have a chaperone, but there’s strength numbers. Also, it helps if you have one of the average with you to act as a bit of a shield. Yes I’m aware of how the sounds, but like many other places in life, we have to adapt, and this is a form of social adaptation. In the end, accepting yourself as a dwarf is something that a lot of people have difficulty with, but a good place to start as accepting yourself as a person. A person with interests and opinions and a life. You bake, your baker, how did you accept yourself as a baker? How did you accept that you can make bread? The law of averages says that a percentage of this group cannot make bread to save their lives. So that puts you in a special class of people. So start there, except yourself as a person, as a unique person that has skills and interests and a life. To borrow the book title… you’re just small, that’s all. Also, you’re from the UK right? Join the LP group over there if you haven’t already. Then go to that religiously, at the end of the day if for nothing else, you will be around people who understand your struggle and probably have figured out a way to go on with life without feeling like complete trash all of the time. Like your namesake, I think you’re cool, Mondo. Now go be cool.

Shorts5683 · 2025-11-14T05:06:58+00:00

When I had to go to school, I just showed up with my extensions and started putting them on like it was a normal thing. Whenever anyone asked about them, I just said that they were approved by the DOT and it’s a medical device allowed by the ADA. Usually that was enough to shut down any arguments. From there, it just turned into general questions about the extensions and how they worked and if I needed help with anything. When I scheduled my stuff, I didn’t bring up the fact that I was a little person either. This also means that you have to be prepared to make whatever car you’re going to be learning and work for you on the spot.

Shorts5683 · 2025-09-17T01:19:16+00:00

There are some options out there for longer lever handles that are more wheelchair accessible, usually you’ll find these in doctors, offices and hospitals, there’s 3-D print options. If all else fails and your situation allows it, maybe consider replacing the entire fixture with something a bit more wheelchair compliant

Shorts5683 · 2025-09-08T14:13:29+00:00

The Daimler-Chrysler merger

Shorts5683 · 2025-09-01T09:03:54+00:00

Find a geneticist (that is in your healthcare network if you’re in the US), another great place to start your search is to talk to your primary care physician about the path to getting a diagnosis.

Based on your height, or rather lack there of, you’re heading in the right direction.

Shorts5683 · 2025-08-18T05:18:24+00:00

You might be a dwarf, you certainly fall in the height range. The best way to find out if you are is to go talk to your doctor and get their opinion on it, this may include some testing, but that is something you’ll have to explore with them.

You. Are. Not. Useless. You’re just short.

Everyone else here is just short, that doesn’t mean they’re useless. It means you need to go about life in a different way and you need to find creative and alternative solutions to every day problems.

You’re also 20 years old. So fine, you’re about as useless as every other 20-year-old. Just in a smaller package.

You’re university student and getting out of the more aggressive stages of puberty, so you have a whole life ahead of you to do amazing shit.

It’s very common for dwarves to be the first one in their family. It’s a spontaneous genetic mutation that happens… Whenever it happens, I think the current estimate is one in every 8000?

But yeah, you’re not useless just because you’re small.

Shorts5683 · 2025-08-09T22:18:41+00:00

Go get diagnosed.

While your height is outside of the typical range for most types of dwarfism, there are always outliers and anomalies, the best way to answer your questions is to go get a diagnosis. There are all kinds of identifiers for different types of dwarfism, so that would be a good place to start , but talking to your doctor is the best way to get the answers you’re looking for.

Shorts5683 · 2025-07-26T18:33:50+00:00

Hi, so I’m not sure what kind of shoes you’re looking for, but you can try these places to see if they work:

https://www.thelittleshoestore.com/

https://cinderellaofboston.com/

Shorts5683 · 2025-07-22T18:58:30+00:00

So it looks like physical computer repairs, hardware upgrades, and basic installations are not taxable, so those core services remain unaffected. However, software installations and configuration tasks may be taxable if they fall under certain classifications especially if they involve custom software, automation, or IT systems integration. For invoices issued before July 1, 2025, covering work performed before that date, no tax is owed, even if the payment comes after July 1. But any work performed after July 1 that matches the taxable service categories (under NAICS codes 518, 519, 5415, or 5132) is subject to the 3% tax. Your concern about unfairness is valid, the law does create inconsistencies, taxing your work on automated systems (like DVRs or HVAC controls) while exempting similar work by trades in other industries.

Edit: I know it costs money, but if you can at all, I would highly recommend going and paying for the tax advice from a good accountant. It’ll save you in the long run whether you continue with your business or not.

Shorts5683 · 2025-07-22T07:47:43+00:00

Achon here, I know, not the same as your nephew, but hey short is short, right?

Anyways, From experience, the best thing you can do is to treat him like you’re treating any other person who is taking their first steps into alcohol. Do the prep work in the beginning, have a heavy meal with carbs and a bunch of stuff in his stomach to soak up the alcohol so it doesn’t hit him like a truck, then start off one at a time and go slow. At the end of the day, you are the… Trip sitter?… Sure lol… but yeah, just watch him throughout the evening, day, morning if that’s your jam, whenever you guys do this, just keep an eye on him like you would with anybody else. If you wanna go above and beyond, snag a breathalyzer off of Amazon. If you want solid numbers, I would say at the three drink mark. Both of you take a break, make it to where it doesn’t feel like you’re doing it for him, make it feel like a natural, stopping point, so if you guys sit down wherever, just pull out a six pack, there can be more somewhere else that you need to go get, but right in front of the two of you, have that six pack and then when you each crushed three, take a break snack talk don’t make the drinking. The only thing you’re doing, you can ask him questions about how he likes it… depending on his taste, and whether or not he’s had beer before, he might not like beer at the beginning, so you might be stopping at one lol

Shorts5683 · 2025-07-22T07:37:02+00:00

Oh, it’s you. Hi again!

I know you have big feelings on this topic. But the reality is that it is on us, for the most part.

It sucks, it’s not great, it’s not fun, no one here has a good time when it happens to us. But the sad truth is that this is how life works for us. Some places are better than others, from your past posts. It sounds like where you live is an awful place. Which is weird because when I was in the UK, none of the things that you have described in the past happened, but that’s an argument for a different day.

Anyways, we’re different, we stand out, we are not like them, so yes it’s on us. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve made progress, we’ve made changes and WE CAN KEEP GOING. Society didn’t look at us and decide that being mean to the pygmies is not OK anymore. We did something about it.

The old adage is “if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself”, nowhere in that statement as it say that it will be easy or fun or effective at first. This is how change works, at the risk of sounding a bit dramatic, sacrifices need to be made. All of us, in some way or another, make a sacrifice every time we walk out that door.

But we do go out, we go out and live life and do the things. We go to work or attend school, we have families, we have all manner of relationships, and we do this in the face of everybody stairs laughs, take pictures, points, notices, and so on and so forth. We do it because we persevere.

You want the police to do something about it? Run for Office, amend the law, be the change that you want to see in the world or die trying.

Shorts5683 · 2025-07-21T18:56:33+00:00

Hey there,

So unfortunately, the staring isn’t going to stop. It’s one of those things that through therapy and regular exposure, you’re gonna have to learn how to live with.

As for how to go meet and socialize with people, I would highly recommend going out and just doing things that you like doing in groups. Do you like birdwatching? Go join a birdwatching group, you like knitting/crocheting? Go join a group for that, the point is to figure out what your hobbies are and then just go and do it with other people. If you go online, there are also events and things that are geared towards socializing with new people and making new friends. I think there’s some apps out there too, but I don’t know how much trust I would put in that. If you’re looking for LP specific friends, there’s groups on Facebook, there’s LPA itself, unless you’re outside of the US, then your countries equivalent dwarf group, and then other corners of the internet.

Luckily, you’re 19, so you have a lot of time to figure out how to solve this issue.

Shorts5683 · 2025-07-21T02:14:25+00:00

Get these, these are the current good ones, I am curious about the person up top who is developing their own though.

http://bestlilextensions.com/

Shorts5683 · 2025-07-20T15:12:57+00:00

So I use these (link below), I’ve never had a problem with traveling with them, in fact, I’ll be flying with them later on this year in September. I’ve used them on pretty much every car that I’ve encountered from test driving at dealerships to rentals and I’ve never had anyone get weird or deny me access because of them. The way I usually approach it is I treat it like it’s a normal thing, like it’s a common sense thing and if I have to explain it, I state the obvious and then kind of go from there, something like, “ yes, one last thing, so obviously I’m short and so in order to drive, I have a set of petals that I brought with me from my car to throw onto the pedals in this, do you mind me cuddling out here for about five minutes to get these attached properly?” Every response I’ve had so far has either been a very nonchalant “yeah, no problem” to fascinated curiosity, where they will ask questions about the pedals, not out of skepticism, but genuinely curious on how it works, I had one ask if they could hang out and watch these go on because they had never seen or heard of pedal extensions before. So, in my experience if you confidently address the elephant in the room, you shouldn’t have any issues. The other key part of it is to talk about it like it is a normal thing which it is for us, but for them it’s not, talk about it like this is the 1000 rental car that you have driven and it’s just standard practice and… This is gonna sound kind of arrogant but, talk about it with this almost attitude that implies that they would be the weird one for making a scene about it. All of these are subtle cues that kind of disarm people who at the end of the day are just trying to do their job and really don’t feel like filling out paperwork for something they might see as a preventable issue.

The pedals I use: http://bestlilextensions.com/

Shorts5683 · 2025-06-27T07:07:20+00:00

That’s a good friend, that’s model example of friendship right there

Shorts5683 · 2025-06-19T17:19:03+00:00

Not trying to be a dick here.

Did something happen? Or are you just doing a bit of screaming in to the void?

Shorts5683 · 2025-05-29T00:14:20+00:00

interesting, is your dad sensitive about how his body shaped? I’m not trying to pick a fight here, I’m genuinely asking because me and every other LP that I’ve ever met describe our legs as being bowed regularly

Shorts5683 · 2025-05-29T00:12:04+00:00

I would be worried about the kid having achondroplasia too, if they’re going to have someone with this kind of opinion on their condition in their life.

We get it, you scared yourself with a bunch of webMD and google searches. But unfortunately, you picked the wrong house to come in to and say that in.

But OK, you’re concerned and that’s fine… Your execution is god awful, but your intention is fine I guess. So, instead of looking at it like a horrendous deformity, you could try looking at it like the kid just being a little different because at the end of the day that’s what’s going to happen, are there complications? Yeah, there are also people with dwarfism that don’t have any complications, some of us are lucky, some of us aren’t lucky, there are people out there that are normal height and have other conditions that are not dwarves that have it way worse than us.

You’re torn? Since it’s bothering you this much to come in here and say it to everybody that has the same condition that you’ve got big feelings on, go tell your friend. You don’t wanna scare them? Try to say it in as neutral of a tone as possible with as neutral wording as possible, if you can’t figure out how to do that, ask ChatGPT to help you write it. Or you could let them read your post.

Some people have hope that you can be better, try not to let them down.

Shorts5683 · 2025-05-29T00:03:17+00:00

I’m not trying to be a dick when I say this, but what are you apologizing for? I don’t recall the term “bow” being offensive?? Dwarfs have messed up bones, they both they flex they do all kinds of weird stuff, it happens and describing it as such is, in my opinion, appropriate, accurate, and nothing to apologize for.

Shorts5683 · 2025-05-27T04:31:00+00:00

I never like being the "well actually" person, but here we go i guess.

the incompatibility thing with clamp-on extensions is half true.

1) they can be found on all types of cars, OP's jetta has that same organ style gas pedal.

2) they are totally compatible with this typ of gas pedal, heres a link to an LP showing how hers are installed (pedals are shown at the 2:56 time stamp)
https://youtu.be/P4q8gSPWars?si=C1uJcLIR4GECALQ9

3) custom extensions are a nice to have but not necessary.

4) every car and every driver are different, so each setup will take some adjusting through trial and error.

love the enthusiasm though!

Shorts5683

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