Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-131.118.255.194-20150707203835/@comment-13965604-20150803205333

Nope. Well, I think technically he was because of height, but dwarfism didn't cause his height problem. It was a combo of the renal failure and the corticosteroids for transplant. Most kids who have renal function problems are short. He seems exceptionally so but he had a birth defect that slowly ate his kidneys up so he always had diminished renal function. Both my parents are tall, and their families run tall. My mom is 5'10 and my dad is 6'4, and I only wound up 5.75' Sarah Hyland (older sister in modern family) in only 5'2. It's standard for us to be vertically challenged.