User talk:Dr.HZeng

What is the legal height for classification as a midget?
Hongda Zeng's answer is as near as you are going to get. There was once a difference in classification that a Dwarf was below 4' 10", but above 4'' a Midget being 3'- 4' at maturity. However, certainly in England the terms are seen as inter-changeable.

Ironically I am good friends with a genetically short family. The "big brother" about clips 5'; the two girls (although they would kill me for that description as the are 45 and 50 respectively). are 3'10" and 4'1"; one is quite portly the other like a "bean-pole"; however she was a Spina-bifda baby, and has had some very major, invasive surgery throughout her child,and her left leg is permanent locked in to straight.

She can drive a car, but only automatics and they have to be specially modified for her purposes, including raising the seat and using a small steering wheel.

Watching her getting in and out of the car, is quite amusing since it is like watching a small child climbing over a wall, almost doing a "reach and grab" movement, using the whole seat as a lever rolling on to her tummy and then sit up. She has to put the car in to "Drive" on the automatic transmission, and taking the hand-brake off using both hands.

Meanwhile her sister uses a baby step that you usually see three year olds' use to reach the hand basin in a bathroom, or get in to bed. She carries it around with her so that she can get in to a shop with a raised entrance.

As I have found with the two girls, you have to be careful how you talk about their height, in terms of reference as midget or dwarf, one takes it very much to heart, near insult, the other quite cheerfully.

To that end I would warn all people how your refer to the height issues in this scenario; I jokingly use the term "Vertically Challanged", which oddly enough neither take to heart. Dr.HZeng (talk) 06:25, 21 September 2016 (UTC)