How my life has been affected....part 1

As you all may have read from the previous post, I wasn't diagnosed with Turner's until I was 5 years old. In a way, the doctor's didn't notice anything out of the ordinary with me until then. Right before i was officially diagnosed, my pediatrician began to show concern because i wasn't in the "average" area of the growth chart for kids my age. At that time, the height was his only concern. The height wasn't really a big concern at first though because most of the women on both sides of my family are fairly short.

The height remained the only small concern until I was diagnosed. Other than being short, I was exactly like the other kids in my class. When I was diagnosed, the doctor had said that i might have trouble in math and reading comprehension.I have never really had any issues comprehending books, and retaining the information. The math issue though i did end up having issues with, although not until I reached about 8th grade. Since then, at least for me, it depended on the teacher for math. Some teachers I clicked with and could understand math really well, others i didn't click with and that is when my grades in math would fall.

My classmates never really noticed a huge height difference until we were in about the fourth grade. That's when the distance between their height and mine started to get dramatically bigger. I began being called "shorty", "shortstack", "small fry", and pretty much anything else height related. Sometimes I didn't mind because it was my freinds calling my those things in a playful, good natured way that never hurt my feelings....other times those names were like daggers.

For me, Turner's did not affect my early life too much. I was your average kid. When I got older however, is when it definitely started affecting my life.