A teenager from Madhya Pradesh, India has an ultra rare condition called 'werewolf syndrome' (hypertrichosis). This uncurable condition is so rare that it is believed that only 50 people have had it since the Middle Ages.

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This dude should start working out he would look insane

Damn man, is this where legends of werewolves come from? Extremely jacked murderous hermit with a rare condition?

He’d kill it at a furry convention

Yeah I think he looks badass!

Imagine him getting in shape and playing Football or Basketball. Dude would be a instant star even if he was just average. Kids would make their parents buy tickets just to see The Wolfman.

He needs to dye it blue and get jacked.

He could also not have that justin bieber hair.

He should get jacked and make bank from saving movie companies a fortune on CGI.

Wow, to be honest, if he can get good, he has a potential to become most known fitness influential. Especially nowadays. I really wish he could turn this into something good for him, cant imagine what a struggle it has been.

He would be a god among the furries

I'm no expert but I'd be willing to bet there are alot of women who would fetishize this man

his face hair looks very soft

Yeah it’s beautiful hair

There’s a documentary about how this happens, all he has to do is finish the board game.

We give him eggs once a while

Tbh he’s quite handsome

I kinda want to pet him

I was just thinking that it looked pretty nice

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That's what I thought. It's all downy like baby hair. I wonder how it ages. It makes him look more like a teddy bear than someone with a genetic anomaly.

This. So beautiful and soft. Might be a rare disorder but good lord he has the hair genetics to rock it.

I thought the same. I was also thinking some people have a thing for furries so I’m sure he’ll find someone to admire that glorious mane.

I want to rub it so bad! It looks soothing AF!😂😂

There was a Kung Fu monk dude that had this condition back in the day. Apparently a total badass.

What was his name?

Damn so he basically was king from tekken

Chewbacca

For a second I thought you were talking about Sun Wu Kong the Monkey King from Journey to the Wild West legend

He looks scary asf no disrespect but I would run away if I saw that man

I'm not trying to be a dick or poke fun I'm just genuinely curious, what would happen if he shaved?

Same! I suppose full head stubble would look worse so he doesn't?

I'm no expert, but from what I understand about the disease he would lose all his basketball skills.

I remember hearing about a girl with this condition, shaving her face has caused some heavy skin irritations for her

An option, but laser hair removal on his face would possibly be better. I'd hope he would be able to embrace it and rock it like MJF in Teen Wolf.

It just grows right back. Imagine having to shave your entire face daily. Would get old pretty quick and kids are usually frowned upon for handling razors.

I think depilatory electrolysis might help a lot.

What's disheartening is that the kid got bullied because this.

yes lil kids can be assholes

The last paragraph is pretty uplifting tho.

I was born with a cleft pallet which made my nose a little flatter than normal and I don't talk normal. So I can attest... Yes, kids are mean. But towards adulthood it gets better. Not great but better. I still get looks.

He’d be a pretty cool youtuber ngl, I’d tune in every now and again

Yup kids suck that's a guarantee

He can youtube as a werewolf or Bigfoot. But one can get tired of making wolf noises, and the other will be chat wanting feet pics....

Poor kid. Hope there is a cure or at least some form of treatment to help his condition. He’s still got a lot of time ahead of him so hopefully he can get help as science progresses.

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Good! I'm hoping he leans into it. I think it looks cool.

Lmao, yeah no shit he got bullied. Would take a miracle to not be bullied with this condition. Kids suck.

Honestly I think he looks badass.

Endless hair styling options.

Dude can be a model for Gucci or something. Like no joke

I wish this was a much more common and celebrated thing among human species, like vitiligo or something. Looks hella cool.

I was going to say... You know there has to be plenty of females out there that would be into this.

All the werewolf fanfic community would agree with you.

I bet he's nice as fuck too. Like a solid dude

Omg I read that wrong. Where's my damn eyeglasses...

Bro this is where the werewolf legend came from!

If a medieval person with the same condition was teased and bullied their whole life for looking different, it wouldn't be a giant leap to see why they would be inclined to run around at night scaring and enacting vengeance on people!

Most legends have some origins in reality. Then with a gigant game of telephone and a little extra pepper for seasoning you take an easily explained situation and create myths and legends.

Probably this and unrelated cases of rabies. Dark age serial killers can also be credited with spawning stories of werewolves and vampires.

Spooky, scary... Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves

Ma won't shave me, Jesus can't save me, Dog faced boy

I like him. I think he looks rad! Bro fuck the mean comments and weird looks. You are one of a kind. Embrace your appearance and make it your strength!

if i had this i would get buff as hell. Catch me howling at the moon motha fuckers

As if becoming buff as hell is that easy xD

Once you get past the rareness of how it looks, it’s actually not that weird..?? Kinda looked good in fact!

Not only that, but you can make a career out of it.

Man’s got a majestic beard though like straight up silky smooth and groomed

100% guarantee that there is a not insignificant number of girls out there who would be into this.

I like to think that it's a relic of our past. At one point in our evolutionary history we would have looked like this.

Just accept it and become a god in the furry community!

People aren't bringing this up, but there is a group for him. He may not want to be part of it, but he'd find some level of fame in it.

Taking off the head of his costume at the furry convention would be like two buckets guy

Seriously soooo coollll

My husband is about three hairs short of this condition

Do you not have hair almost everywhere in your body?

I'm about 3 hares short

I actually think it looks good. Makes me realize humans would look nice if we didn’t lose most of our body hair.

We would be cute Wookiees

Yeah it’s interesting how most animals that we find cute are hairy, think dogs and cats, rabbits, hamsters and such, and the ones that are bald we mostly find creepy or ugly, but then we humans ourselves are mostly hairless too

There is no way there has been only 50, I knew two in my city in canada. And there is the famous Mexican brothers that have it

I knew about the Mexican brothers from an episode of the X Files. I'd never heard about the Canadians. I'd think it far more likely that there are 50 people in the world NOW with the condition rather than the assertion that there have been 50 people in the last 1000 years. That seems like an unsupportable claim.

Well that still leaves 45

Hypertrichosis itself isn’t rare. There are many forms - I’m guessing this specific form may be rare, but I doubt it’s that rare.

Yeah or maybe you just knew some hairy Canucks. Are you sure they had this exact diagnosis ?

This family alone has 30 of them

Yeah, I've heard about multiple people alive now with the condition. 50 is an absurdly low estimate.

IIRC the Mexican brothers: it affects every male in their family to varying degrees.

Honestly, just rock that shit, it looks cool bruh! :)

Not gonna lie, he looks cool as hell.

Not to be insensitive, but there’s a very specific fetish community that would love this guy

"Man, I feel bad for this dude. Doesn't even look bad but culturally, but folks will be folks." : me

Bitter sweet, win the genetic lottery, but it’s the Wookie gene

Just think if you had that but still went BALD! Full body mushroom hiding in a shrub look.

In the Hallmark movie of this guy's life story, he moves back home from the big city and falls in love with the town's hairdresser.......

Nah. His Christmas wish is to be normal and Santa makes it come true. He then sees that the grass isn’t greener on the other side. Finally he’s comfortable in his own skin and then suddenly he gets hit by a car driven by Hershel Walker. Werewolves might kill vampires but demented ex football players kill werewolves.

Pretty hair and pretty eyes 💛

Not trying to be a dick but his beard is on point.

I’d like to meet his tailor.

Furries wet dream.

Is there any other effects of the disease other than what we can see here?

I'm wondering if it messes with his body temperature. I could imagine him getting very warm easily.

No, there's tons of other people throughout documented history who have had it and I read about this one Chinese guy who was born in 1849 and passed away in 1928 while he was living with the condition, meaning he lived to be 79 years old

You wanna know if there's hidden places where the hair is also growing??

I think he looks so beautiful and even majestic.

Agreed. Despite or maybe because of some sadness in the eyes. Growing up any kind of different is traumatizing, especially something so visible.

To be honest that is so fucking cool

Sorry for stating the obvious but can't it just be taken off with laser?

Maybe. But laser is expensive. I’m in the same state as he is and his dad is a farmer. So no way they have enough money for multiple laser treatments.

Electrolysis hair removal is the only permanent method of hair removal, so laser wouldn’t be as effective. You have to zap the follicles individually with the implement, and it takes a long time to get it all, especially with how thick that looks

I would think he's in the risk group for paradoxical hypertrichosis

He just fuzzy. That's how we'd look with fur I guess.

Having a cold must really suck

But cold weather must be fine.

I bet there’s women out there that would be SUPER into this.

There was once an entire Mexican family of circus folks who had this condition.

He looks like a really good boy

Furries hate this trick...

Dude should just get on Onlyfans. I’m sure there’s an audience for that

From an evolutionary perspective this is interesting. Imagine he passed his genes on and in a few thousand years this was the new norm.

He’s kinda cute…

He looks… good actually. The hair looks pretty.

He looks so fluffy!

I think I saw him drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's...

Actually looks cool

I would go to gym, shape well and then look like freaking badass beast. Let’s be honest, nowadays people have so weird kinks. It would be probably not that difficult to find girl or two who likes furry stuff and would go crazy about own werewolf.

There’s 40 from Reddit already lookin to bang….

Im damm balding

He should pursue a movie career

Glad he was able to get a good support system :D

All he needs to do is find some girls with a Lon Chaney Jr. Werewolf fetish, and he's set.

He speaks for the trees.

Honestly pretty fucking cool.

I think he looks beautiful but I don’t really know why.

IMHO he looks kinda cool.

Yo he looks hella cool

A Furries wet dream

Step 1: go to furry convention, Step 2: get laid for life by furries.

Isn't there a family of 5+ in Mexico who all had it.

He looks a like a doodle dog. With that being said, the hair looks so soft and beautiful. Interesting!

I’m fascinated. I’d love to spark one up with him. But that might be dangerous with the fire and hair so maybe a few drinks, if he is within the legal age of course food anything. Just to hang out and ask and get to know what life is like through his lens

How is it "incurable" if they can lazer zap and eliminate lady's mustaches?

I instantly thought how adorable is he...guess I'm strange

He looks fluffy 😍

Ok, all jokes aside and in all seriousness, he will be every furry girl's wet dream. And I mean it.

Idk if furry chicks would give you a very fulfilling sex life. A sex life, sure. Idk about fulfilling though.

Honestly this was my first thought. There are definitely people out there that would be super into him.

As a fetish. It's like someone only wanting to sleep with Japanese girls cos they have an anime fetish. It's disgusting

It is not uncurable because it is not a disease: it is a condition just like eye color. People suffer no health danger or harm because of it except the social impact of it. Many men that have it shave all the face. Women are also affected but far less.

Sure, there’s a time and place for semantics..

What classified ultra rare compared to rare

That’s a good name for that condition.

So does it make him better at basketball or what?

My guys gotta get himself into the furry community

Disney better sign him as chewbacca and make a backstory about him

Not sure what it says about me, but that’s one pleasant looking person. I think it looks beautiful!

He looks so fucking cool bro

Actually looks sorta cool af

furries must be ALL OVER this guy

Get this kid to the gym ➡️instant legend

How is he at basketball?

Not without sympathy, but anyone else see Bo Burnham hiding underneath?

I remember a family of Mexican boys back in the 90s having some popularity over this condition. It’s weird to me that anybody would be bullied over this because they look super fucking rad. That Michael J Fox Teen Wolf Movie is all I could think about when I saw them and I remember being a kid and praying that god would bless me with this so I could wear a letterman jacket and be popular at school.

Ah yes, the original furry

I mean he should become a Furry. He would be the king over there.

Those men proud of thick beards would be put to shame by this dude. He just needs to embrace it.. get jacked and maybe some hair gel.

Aaahhooooooo…werewolves of India

He needs to work out. Take a few acting classes. Apply for the new X-Men movies

What if he shaves? I know it grows back, but is there a reason not to shave it?

The hair grows more quickly than a normal beard or body hair would i believe, it would be stubbley and itchy all the time if he tried to keep up with it I would imagine. Not to mention time consuming and expensive in hair removal products. Shaving the sensitive skin on your face especially around your eyes regularly seems like It would be damaging too, imagine all the ingrown hairs.

He needs to shave his face with some mace in the dark.

I don’t know how that plays in India, but if he comes to America he’ll have plenty of hot and freaky women all over him.

“You’re eight years old and you have a beard”

I mean, the dude takes good care of his hair… absolutely marvelous. What products he use?

He looks like a good soft boy

Who's a good boy

Workout, get buff. Become a model/instafamous.

He’s handsome, he reminds me of an Airedale terrier

Interesting as I have seen this like 5 times in my lifespan through tv, internet and magazines… granted that’s not many but the Middle Ages were about 1000 years ago. The math just doesn’t add up to me

If this dude isn't car surfing

He's fucking glorious!

After the initial “oh hey that’s different” reaction, I actually find him quite handsome.

Get him on the high school basketball team STAT!!!

Dude he rocks it

Bro should work out a bunch, then start his OnlyFans for furries. Thank me later bro.

Oh bless him, he looks like a lovely guy

He should workout and get ripped and walk around shirtless

tbh, he looks handsome

Looks good tbh.

I live in a small town in Brazil, and my dad told me that when he was a kid there were rumors about an old lady that didn't use to leve her house often, and some people said she was a werewolf woman. I always wondered if she had this syndrome.

Damn..those hairs are Loreal Paris Ad level soft and silky and shiny

Involuntary furry

That’s a furry

Guess he can always date a furry

Honestly tho, if he looks in the right places he can certainly find love. You can see his eyes and lips, the rest is just a really big beard aside from the nose. But how often do you interact with your partners nose?

Hey, come on now. We shouldn't wish that upon anybody.