Talk:Nelson de la Rosa

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wasn't /Virchow-Seckel syndrome the cause of his low stature?

Height

The article currently lists his height as 1'6", contrasting with the referenced Boston.com article, which has him at a relatively large 2'4". The bare-bones IMDB biography confirms 2'4" as a more accurate height. I'd probably correct it myself, but I'm literally about to fall asleep, so anyone is welcome to beat me to it... --BDD 07:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Guiness recognized his height as 72 cm (2 ft 4¼ in), measured by physicians on April 2, 1987. He weighed 6.8 kg (15 lb), his chest measured 44.4 cm (17½ in) and his waist 40.6 cm (16 in). He was last mentioned in the 1991 edition due to the emergence of Gul Mohammed, who, being older, had been shorter all along. Later I have seen his height given as high as 85 cm (2 ft 9½ in) with a weight of 10 kg (22 lb) – though many articles, like this, seem to indicate that he was 83 cm (2 ft 8¾ in) at death – and noting that he was 18 at the time of his initial measurement, it's quite possible he hadn't done growing by then. I also remember reading an obscure tabloid article about him marrying a woman 162 cm (5 ft 3¾ in) tall – and I see that at least he was married and had a son. Was he the World's shortest father? And did his wife have the greatest height advantage over her husband in the World? The latter depends on his height at the time: 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) Genevieve Gallen was 34 in (87 cm, misconversion intentional) taller than 2 ft 8 in (81 cm) Verne Troyer.

See also his celebdeathtoll entry concernig the 54 cm (1 ft 9¼ in) claim. Interestingly the false metric figure is often accompanied by the correct Imperial one, like here.

--Anshelm '77 00:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Date of birth

The Dominican Republic newspaper Listín Diario website (in Spanish; second last paragraph) says he was born in Bayaguana September 6, 1968 – not June. --Anshelm '77 00:58, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

questions

I would like to know more about primordial dwarfism and other types of dwarfism. There seems to be frustratingly little hard information.

I looked at the videos of Nelson about a year before his death. He certainly did not look like someone who was 38. His face was wrinkled and his skin was discolored as if he were much older. Does primordial dwarfism come with premature ageing? What about other types of dwarfism, like hypopituitary dwarfism? Do they have premature ageing as well?

The videos talk about him having a son. Was the son normal? Does the son have a high chance of conceiving another primordial dwarf?

I notice during his interviews that he was able to talk -- in Spanish -- but seldom said more than a few words. Do people with this disorder suffer from impaired intellect? Or was he exceptionally intelligent and therefore declined to babble for the interviewers? What about emotional profile? Do their high voices come from small larynxes or from lack of full puberty? What about people with other forms of dwarfism? Are there interviews with his wife and what their brief relationship was like?

Why do people say that primordial dwarfs have normal proportions? Certainly they are more proportional than "disproportionate dwarfs," but they do not seem to be quite normal in their proportions. Nelson's limbs seem somewhat short compared with his head & also somewhat deformed and without proportional musculature.

Also, I notice how similar the Chinese man looks to Nelson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ddI31ZkTs&feature=related

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Aebarschall (talk • contribs) 05:01, 14 February 2009 (UTC)