I started shaving between 5th and 6th grades, because of some long scraggly looking stuff on my chin and sideburns. It was another year before I could grow a "kiddy" mustache.
By the time I was a sophomore in high school, my beard was about as full as now, but our dress code wouldn't allow facial hair of any sort during the school year and let it grow all summer. I will always hate shaving. I get a rash, too and it's really and ugly feeling to have those whiskers twisting out from under your skin everyday.
I can get used to a beard and have worn one since I graduated HS. I shaved a few times when I was about 30, but the same thing happened with the rashes. I guess I'm lucky that I can grow full beard and keep it close cropped and it still looks good. At least it used to. Now that I'm turning gray I look like I just did a 'Got Milk" commercial.
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It's just music for me. The other stims don't work.