So.... I had this thought... Well, as you may not know. I spend a lot of time reading up on Acromegaly, and trying to find some new information, and some answers. I sometime look at other people and wonder if they have it, and now I think that a lot of the characters I watched as a kid and most recently on TV have Acromegaly. I also, notice that I have a love for the characters who, are really big and at a first glance seem menacing and terrifying, but once you get to know them, you find that they are gentle and overall good hearted. Character such as Frankenstein, Mighty Joe Young, Lurch from the Adams family.
This thought, began with Shrek actually. As I look at him and His large stature,. He has all the physical characteristic of Acromegaly.. Which made me think, "Shrek has Acromegaly!" Now, I could be wrong, but bear with me for a minute, and hopefully you'll began to understand why I even began this train of thought.
Living in a world where you look like no one, you have hard any examples to base your existence on. I always took to fantasy and in the back of my mind felt that I was something for a fair tale or and folk lore. I often wonder if after I'm gone will there be story of me and things that I did, and will it become folk lore. And then, I thought if I live in those days. and I who I am now, would most likely one of two people. I could've been the mighty hunter, the guy who goes into the forest and bring the village 50 elk, and or the kills the Lion who has been terrifying the village for days. Or I might've scared the average man, so much so, that I might've been forced to live in the wilderness, alone. There, I would be know as an Ogre. Back then, there was no treatment for Acromegaly, so I would've developed the characteristic of the disease much quickly than now, because there's was no treatment, they how no clue what it was. So, adding to the physical characteristics that I already have, I would also, have an even wider chin and jaw and tongue, wide fingers and toe, excessive weight gain for no reason, even larger hands and feet, larger bones in the face causing deformities, excessive sweating, and body order. Doesn't that sound like Shrek, or better yet an Ogre. I would become and outcast, I would, most likely live in the woods or a swamp, and because of all this, I would become grouchy, and mean cause no one wants me. My hygiene would be even worst, cause I'm basically camping out for the rest of my life. And people would think its cool to go see the ogre, and that would definitely piss me of so, I would run them off and eventually resort to terrifying people in attempt to keep them away. Legends would build and I would become the Terrifying Ogre, who, eats people and would ever else peoples imagination could muster up. I know it may sound silly, I was just thinking about it and thought I should share it with you!
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