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Im 17 and have long hair, and am a Senior in Highschool, ive had long hair for a few years now, and recieve the occasional slur or insult due to my long hair, was just wondering how common this type of thing is, and how the rest of you deal with it.
You have probably seen several postings regarding responses of people to longhairs. As a senior, you probably get jabs from the same type of people - those who are trying to be in the "in" crowd.
You are following your own drummer, a trait that will hopefully grow in you as you venture into life beyond highschool - out of the cliques and into the real world.
But make no mistake, you will still be a minority in the eyes of the "normal" culture - a radical.
Have fun with it. You are doing what you want to do.
It's all in your attitude.
I remember I had the longest hair in my school class and I never got any hair cut pressure or insults from the other school boys or girls respective my hair (it was around 1970). It was just accepted how it was. I think I had the only "hippy like" hair style although the time allowed long hair.
The problems I got were almost family problems. My mother and father hated the hair and family situation was more a fight against my hair position than to give a pleasant life. No support from any family members.
I think something has been ruined during this time.
After school military catched the hair and during the studies afterwards family anti-hair-war continued and sometimes they won. I assumed hair cut requests from the job machinery, but I am not quite sure, I had hair cuts for some kind of virtuality.
The result was a certain kind of ambivalence in hair length and a strong opposition against society requests, I spend more than 25 years at universities, some kind of never ending student. There I could grow my hair as long as I wanted, and I had a lot of sightings from long haired women I missed outsite.
Currently I am working in a software development area with hairlength about 40 cm and I have no problems anymore with the hair, it seems to be accepted from my environment and I live in peace with it.
I think long hair is a nice attribute for young human being and it is sad if society gives pressure to cut it. And I think that hair cut pressure in younger years can result in long hair likings that will never die until the end of life.
wolfgang