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Hi. I'm a junior in High School and I've been tryin to grow my hair since around 2nd semester of freshman year. After many setbacks and painful lessons, I have achieved medium length hair. I just got it all evened off at about cheekbone/earlobe length. Of course, I have discovered that going w/o layers when you have THICK and WAVY hair is near suicidal. I am finding that this is a worse enviroment to grow my hair than with my conservative midwestern relatives. In general, I find reflective surfaces to be unkind. Between liscense and class photos, typecasting mainstream media, and arrogant S.O.B's with nothing better to do than critique my appearance, there is no support for growing hair whatsoever! The washout rate for aspiring longhairs w/o a support structure has to be enormous. Well, thank you all for listening to my ranting and raving. Writing all this down helps. Ciao.
Some people just live off others humiliation. Stand your ground with the hair, you could try tailing it to draw down the attention a notch
Yeah, im actually going into my freshmen year and just starting to grow out my hair, I know im gonna be critized but i mean its the year 2003, you know that style (stupid i might add) is baggy jeans and a crappy grammer, and if you dont go by that your gonna be critized. So just drain them all out, Its easy after awhile. Heck im already geting it from my family, (you know the "your turning gay treatment" meanwhile probly the toughest guys in the u.s have long hair). And I live in N.Y, If i even where my jethro-tull shirt people will say, "what is he doing playing the skin-flute. So once agian just drain out the thoughts, your growing it out becouse you want to, People get a kick out of humilation and its a shame, When you show them that your not bothered by it, heck laugh at it, there gonna go and pick on someone else. So yeah dont stop growing out your hair, Just stop thinking about other peoples opinions about you, becouse if you do, your gonna end up turning into another mindless wigger. Just enjoy the hair, and rock on bro, I hope i helped a little, You ever need to chat, my i.m is joeybiscuits (msn i.m is afrofrost@hotmail.com)
Have a good one
Unfortunately, there will always be creeps out there who will say bad things. I'm 35 and back in November on the day of my grandmother's funeral, a creepy cousin in his 40's who doesn't have much hair walked up to me when he got to the funeral home and the first thing he said was "What are you doing with that long hair? I'll give you a hair cut for free."
There will always be sick people like that. Find the people who are not like that and you will find yourself and your future. I only wish I had found the right people long ago.
Beleive it or not some bald guys do tend to criticise long hair. You would think it was so transparent why they do that, but still it goes on.
Yeah stick with it man. I took similiar s**t when I was at high school, me an a couple of guys had longish hair. But just as soon as the teachers started having a go at us about it, everyone in our class thought we were cool and started following suit!
Pity I bottled it back then and cut my hair... :-(
I'm a recent survivor of high school, and let me tell you that once you get the heck out of there, college will be wonderful. There are longhairs up here in all stages of growth, and no one even looks twice at them (except for me, who is staring ^_^) And maybe people will make fun of you now, but they will be uber-jealous of you later, I'll bet...long, thick, wavy hair is amazing.
If you need a support system, this board is great; The guys here are wonderfully helpful from what I've seen. And as you'll notice, there are a couple ladies here as well. Hope you'll stick around! Good luck with your growth, and don't give up! It will all be worth it in the end.
~Jenn