Published on 12, July, 2020
In protest against the neglect and discrimination society shows me I'm growing a long beard.
My story is not an uncommon one in some respects. As a child I was emotionally abused by my father and I had nowhere else to go. Due to my Autism I was, of course, in a more difficult position than some would be. In the culmination to years of being controlled and emotionally terrorised, I was chased out of my parents' house by my dad who had a knife in his hand and was screaming at me.
Years later I live alone in a flat but cannot get a support worker, despite repeat requests to GPs. I've attempted to arrange for a support worker to work for me, in a self-employed basis, (for which I'd pay all the funds directly myself) through my own advertisements I've placed but can't find anyone that way either.
I can't cope doing things on my own and have told professionals this many times. I've been in 4 psychiatric wards, detained against my will. Now I'm 32, no friends in my local area, no prospects.
My beard is already longer than it's ever been after 2 weeks of unshaven growth. I'm not going to be trimming it so will let it grow out naturally and freely.
Are you sure he wasn't coughing up a hairball?
It was mainly Tom Yum sauce that was an obstacle. Didn't know where my beard began and the noodles ended!
Yea that's why I carry a CPR mask on my keyring, for the 'grubby beard', emergency. Not happend in 16 years but YA never know... lol
Eww not a good combo, I have images of runny egg dripping from your beard.... lol
I used to work with a guy with a big beard - he was the most unfit guy ever. His beard was effectively a menu of everything he'd eaten that week. It was gross.
I was doing a plant room inspection tour with him on the 3rd floor when he started complaining about chest pains. He looked terrible. I phoned for help and managed to get him safely down all the stairs and into the control room where we met the site doctor and nurse. They examined him and he was taken straight to hospital by ambulance having a minor heart attack. It's very lucky that I got him out of the plant room - rescue access would have been impossible.
I have nightmares about possibly having to give him CPR and getting a Full English Breakfast at the same time.
Fixed that for you.......
Luckily the few grey hairs that I have blend quite well in blonde hair. I have the random mix of straight and curly though, just some crazy haired blonde chick!
Neither is black/brown/ginger/grey and with curly and straight hair mixed. It looked real weird!
My hair looked worse! Pregabalin withdrawal sort of put grooming on the back burner!
I look like an egg again now. Much prettier!
Yeah, bits of food stuck in facial hair is not a good look :-)
Shaved mine off last week. Got it about 3 or 4 inches long. The struggles with food were really riling me.
Food > facial hair!
Keep going it will get there, BTW we want to see pre and post plants pics when its long enough. lol
It's developing quite a bit, I like how the moustache is growing as it curls a bit , the neck beard looks awkward, that probably won't look right until it's really long. Definitely not at the plait stage yet!
How is the beard growing going? Is it long enough for plaits?
I’m glad he isn’t violent anymore but rudeness and nastiness is still difficult to deal with!
Maybe see if you can get a good pair of noise cancelling headphones, they might help!
Yeah some people of that generation can be quite intolerant of anything vaguely alternative or out of the ordinary. Two of my uncles can be the same.
yep :)