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!

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[–] 70 points 2 years ago (12 children)

You know what they say about guys with tiny feet...

They have a helluva time finding shoes that fit right.

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  • [–] [S] 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Indeed. Have to buy online. Shoe stores are too awkward.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Upside: the variety of light up shoes you can buy must be much higher than the average adult!

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    [–] 67 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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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.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago*

    Reverse hobbit!

    Glad to see you take your uniqueness in stride.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bro is built like a Gazelle

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    You might be really good at rock climbing

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If I were you, I'd find a cordwainer to make custom leather shoes.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I showed this to my fiance; she's 5' and has the same exact shoe size.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Do you have issues with balance or rapid change of direction?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Here's a photo of my foot next to my friend's size 11 foot...


    :::

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Oh the plus side, you can go to any shoe store and find great clown shoes!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    Are there any unexpected advantages you've noticed?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    One of the hardest things about my job is getting my big hands into small spaces to put a nut on a bolt, etc. He'd probably be a great mechanic.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It always bummed me out that the larger size sneakers were usually ugly compared to the smaller display models. Consider yourself lucky there.

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