Haircuts

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Here is the back from my latest haircut. I think I butchered it up!


My neck looks really long in this pic.

It's not the fact that the barber/hairstylist bothers me with their presence so much as it is the fact that every time I wanted them to do something differant with my hair they always ignored me and gave me the same style of haircut.

Besides I save a bit of cash by cutting it myself. --I can live with the #1 Crop more than I can shelling out cash for BS.

I've always hated getting my hair cut. It's always awkward for me and has a tendency to make me really tired.

Every time I go to get a haircut, I just tell the barber to "give me a shorter version of what I have now." That's worked every time but once, when the lady who was to cut my hair had to ask me about every little tiny, insignificant dimension of my desired hairstyle. She got frustrated with my vague answers, I got frustrated with the incessant questioning... that tells most of the story.

I just got my first "professional" haircut in about 7 or 8 years. I've been doing it myself, but I felt like a change to something I saw in a magazine pic and I couldn't do it myself.

I've always hated having my head and face touched by anyone. I HATE IT!! ! In fact I'm uncomfortable being touched at all. When it's a stranger who's touching my head and standing in my space and leaning across my face, uugghh, it's horrible.

But, that said, I LOVE the haircut.

I Currently cut my own hair almost all the time, barring a wedding or interview where I have to look sharp and might not have time.

I cut my own hair using standard electric hair clipper with a multitude of clipper guard lengths from very short up to 1.0 inch long. Usually I have quite short hair, use the #2 (2/8 inch) on the sides, lifting my hand with clipper straight up the side and back of my head and not following the contour around to the top. Then I cut the top with #6 (6/8 inch) and no hair is longer than the # 6, looks very clean, even, and is easy to do. My wife would rather I have really long hair but I am not up for that yet haha. But short is ok, and looks good not just my opinion The "blending" happens automatically by moving your hand straight up the sides.. the hair wraps around the curve of your head on top so there doesn't end up being a "bump" or anything between the 2 and 6.. draw a picture or run a comb up and you will see what I mean.. at the transition at the top of the side or back... the hair length changes from the #2 right at the tangency point, and then as the follicles grow farther up the curve on the top of your head, they stay longer.

My hair is very very fine brown hair, a lot of it.. so any defects in a hair cut shows up pretty easily and clearly.. often I pay for a cut, go home, shower, dry, and see big chunks of uncut or uneven hair.. I don't mind bad as much as I mind lack of symmetry! I used to try to clean the cut up at home, but at some point, I got married, didn't even have to pretend to be as normal, bought the clippers, and bing bang boom I am rocking.

So, based on the above, would the entities on this site view such behavior as generally odd, or more anchored as typical of someone with AS?

I LIKE the cutter running their fingers thru my hair, makes me very relaxed, almost fall asleep..

the issue I had was trying to get them to understand what I wanted.. and then being able to make it happen.
Like when I go to a restaurant.. I want the fries to look crispy and golden brown like in the picture! NOT all white and soggy ass.
I have an idea of what I want, explain it in detail, and often would fall short (no pun intended haha).
Got one so bad I got up and walked out.. my "theft" was in the area paper so I mailed them a check. Not aspie bad, we are talking low standards bad.

I'm going to have to go to an actual hairdresser soon as my self-cut hair is starting to look a bit of a mess.....

I don't feel bad about getting my hair cut it's just that I want it to grow out. You know I have thick short hair that will become a bush if it's not clipped. I would my hair to grow out like Squall's hair.