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2:33am June 6, 2015
Anonymous asked: Is your beard related to EDS? Or is that an adrenal thing?

Is your question related to honest curiosity? Or is it a not so subtle bullying thing?. I’ll answer as if the former though I suspect the latter.

I don’t even know if I have EDS, for one thing. All we know is I’m hypermobile, and whether that’s a form of EDS is still debated by scientists.

No doctor has ever been able to explain the beard. Pituitary problems can change certain hormone levels however, and my adrenal insufficiency is pituitary in origin, so it’s possible that it contributes both to the beard and to the fact my periods stopped when I was 28.

Why do you care, though? Why are you asking a question like this? Do you actually want an answer or is there some weird subtext here I can sense but not understand?

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  1. santorumsoakedpikachu said: I’m a cis female with lots of facial hair (mustache, chin, neck). It’s a lot more common than most people know because it’s considered gross and taboo, so most of the time folks religiously remove it. There’s a whole industry for this purpose.
  2. withasmoothroundstone posted this