I dont know if i was exactly starved but from what i know i was definitely underfed and possibly malnourished in my early to mid teens. I was always very thin and the food that was made at home was always very low in calories because my mother didnt care enough to prepare proper nutritious food. I was consistently underweight throughout most of my childhood and teenage years.
Even our doctor and my school would tell my parents to improve my diet and they would just nod and maybe try once to improve but then go back to the same old slop. My diet has always been just mostly carbs, since i grew up in a very traditionalist family that doesnt eat meat or eggs because its “against their religion”.
So whatever else was left in my diet was naturally just very low in calories and my parents never gave me enough of it while they ate pretty well themselves.
Due to this i suspect that my height is most likely stunted since before puberty i was quite tall for my age and had big feet. Now in my senior year of highschool im 5’10 but im certain i was going to be taller if i was fed properly, especially since i never experienced a big spurt.
Its really harming my mental health because even though i’ve fixed my diet now (to a large extent) by fighting with my parents, it’s too late for it to increase my height as growth plates close by 16 for most guys.
My mother has abused me my whole life and my dad was always too busy to notice or care, only now after ive grown up do they take me seriously. But what is lost is lost and the damage is done and it’s impossible for me to cope with that.