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In the past year, at age 50, I am finally growing out my hair.
All my life I have always wanted long hair! It was the biggest
thing I fought about with my mother all growing up. But by the
time I reached adulthood, I had been convinced by all the badgering
from the family and others that I should not have my hair long.
As the years went by, I found myself always seeking out men
with long hair as friends, and I always found long haired men
to be ones who were attractive. And my hair was creeping ever so
slowly longer with each passing year. But it never got really
long.
Well, it turns out people have a part in their brain that tells
FACES OF PEOPLE apart, and I was born with that part either missing
or not working. When I discovered that last year, I then realized
that since my early childhood, one of the main ways I've used to
identify people is by their HAIR! And as a result I've always
considered short haired people to be extremely ugly (as if they
had bags over their heads) and long haired people to be beautiful,
because to me they are INDIVIDUALS! And of course it is really
hard to have friends who you can't tell apart from other people!
About a year ago I scoured the Net and met other "face blind"
people, and guess what? LOTS of us use HAIR to tell people apart
and want their own hair LONG! After all, who wants to look in
the mirror and find what he sees to be grossly ugly? When I
finally realized in my case being longhaired is PART OF MY
DISABILITY, I felt justified in letting go at last. I felt
no one could justifiably fault me any more.... :-)
I feel a thousand times better about myself now that I have long
hair! I will NEVER cut it short again!
Hi Bill!
I will be 40 in March, as we would have said in the '60's
- COOL DUDE -
glad to hear of your decision, to be a "Brother Longhaired Dude"!!!
Please keep all of us here abrest of your trials & tribulations of being a "Longhaired Dude"
Later Bill,
Roger T
H: In the past year, at age 50, I am finally growing out my hair.
I saw a program about this a few years ago. It turns out people have what are sometimes called "grandmother cells". There are actually individual brain cells that are in charge of recognizing the face of an individual. When these cells get damaged, the ability to recognize those people is lost. That's about all of the program that I can recall right now.