I don’t know anyone who can cut hair and I can’t afford to pay 25 bucks to get my hair cut so I shaved off my fairly long hair. Now people feel its acceptable to come into my job and tell me their stupid fucking takes regurgitated from whatever they heard on fox news this morning. As I’m at work I can’t share my opinions on the issues they don’t begin to comprehend. Now I know why Marx had so much hair, its repellent
I shave my head because I’m going bald and I look like bozo the clown if I let the back and sides grow.
Also I live in the US south, and when I speak it sounds like cornbread.
SO MANY TIMES people think I’m a person they can be racist with or like you said, regurgitate what they’ve seen on the news. When I’m working, as a general contractor, it’s even worse with the dirty stained khaki Dickies work pants and bright neon yellow or orange shirts.
If I grew my hair for long enough I could do the hippie side and back pony tail… but I really enjoy not having to do anything with my hair. I had long hair all through highschool and for several years afterward. I miss how it looked, but again I really really enjoy not having to worry about it.
I completely relate. I live in the midwest and do a physically demanding job and don’t go to the gym much. So Im a pretty big guy who doesn’t look athletic. I had to take a selfie for a lyft a couple days ago and I looked exactly like someone about to deliver a hot take from the driver seat of a Ford Maverick on facebook. The struggle is real
How does a person learn to sound like cornbread? I didn’t know I wanted that until just now.
I do an ok job of hiding it for the most part. If I’m drinking it really comes out. Or when I’m around a client for work and I’m not interested in dealing with serious conversations beyond work related things I let it slide back into the twang and vocabulary.
If one day I had healthcare and access to testing I might get tested for the 'tism but I’m pretty positive I’m ADHD at an absolute minimum.All that to say that I usually feel like I’m pretending to be human in most social interactions, and letting people around me feel as though I’m like a lot of people around here lets me keep the interaction to the necessary minimum. Unless I’m feeling froggy, and my social battery is charged… then I’m ready to walk conversations into theory without the buzzwords so maybe it’ll cook in their head a bit.
I hope you’re able to get some healthcare soon. Recently getting diagnosed with adhd and finding a therapist who helps people with adhd has made a giant improvement in my life over the last couple of years.
I shave my head because I’m going bald and I look like bozo the clown if I let the back and sides grow.
You could get a medieval monk look going on.
I remember during the 2020 riots a guy I worked with asked me how I felt about gun control, figured I was a fellow chud and began ranting about how the deranged left were burning the city down around us.
Been there. The communism = no guns thing always confused the fuck out of me. Where do they think all the Kalashnikovs came from?
My guess on that has been that it’s intrinsically tied to American settler colonialism. There’s a kernel inside every chud who believes they’re brave frontiersmen who need to defend their homestead. White supremacy stuff basically
and they have such a shallow understanding of the world they only interpret it as “good guys with guns shoot bad people of lesser races.” So gun control can only be interpreted as restrictions on white autonomy
communism = no guns
Do the reactionaries where you live actually think of communism when they say the “left”?
If you additionally wear nerd glasses and flannel, people won’t think you’re a chud
Get a septum piercing or something and they’ll stay away.
if you get hair cutting scissors you can still do self haircuts albeit at a much longer length. You’ll look weird while you grow it out though.
