I got a nice haircut recently. When I went to visit my psychiatrist I was clean shaven. I generally looked “normal”.
I got a taxi there and a taxi back. Everybody seemed overly friendly compared to usual. The 2 taxi drivers and the staff at the clinic.
Has anybody else noticed this ?
It’s happened to me when I wear makeup versus no makeup, even.
Yes it’s happened to me before.
Especially with my therapist.
It helps, but people responds better to positive energy and authenticity.
I notice people treat me nicer when I dress up a little and when my hair is short. Even a pair of shorts and a decent t-shirt.
When I used to have longer hair, an unkempt mustache/beard, and dressed in sweats, people weren’t so nice.
A clean-cut appearance signals to others that you are on top of your game. And you will be generally treated more respectfully because of that.
I usually dress up and put on perfume and straighten my long hair.
Society… amiright
When I go out with long hair and a scragly beard. I always make sure I wear my mustard stained shirt
To be perceived as a normie by normies, you have to wear makeup if you are a woman and be clean shaven with a good haircut if you are a man? Is it that simple? I suppose that you have to have a nice outfit on too? My almost normie sister always wears makeup and nice clothes. She wouldn’t leave home without it. She’s perceived as a normie, but she’s not. She has psychotic depression. But, she’s always had a fulltime job too. Me, I never wear makeup and I tend to dress in rags and I wear the same clothes everyday for a week or more.
And polished shoes.
I am not sure. I am usually well dressed and behaved, I wear some makeup.
I think when I am having some symptoms I act differently so people treat me differently.
I also notice some difference when I am skinnier versus heavier.
Mortal normie fools…
I seem to have a problem with chronically bad hair… think it’s partly the Risperdal… I only seem to get good results if I use baby shampoo since everything else tends to dry out my hair
I always make sure to shower, brush my hair, and wear clean clothes to therapy/doctor appointments. They specifically write in your notes whether you are clean and presentable during your visit, and I always want to check off those boxes.
Does Risperdal give you bad hair? I have chronically bad hair too. It’s always dried out and fuzzy. And I’m on Risperdal Consta.
Of course. I have little confidence but being well-dressed and groomed in public gives me some confidence. It’s obvious that if you go to the store without combing your hair and you have holes in your jeans and a dirty wrinkled shirt you are going to get more negative attention. It is what is. Most stuff in the world is out of my control but I have control of how I dress and what I eat and being on time to work. You have to play to your strengths.
I have bad hair too and I’m on Risperdal!
My hair is dryed out and out of whack.
I have to buzz it short to keep it under control.
People in this city go by your looks and assume things. I could be wrong.life isn’t it?
My boyfriend was telling me about how different people treat him when he shaves.
He generally has a beard, and it fills out his face quite a lot. He says that men always seem very respectful towards him when he has his beard.
However when he shaves, his face completely changes! It becomes quite a lot smaller, and he looks a lot younger then he actually is.
He says when he shaves everyone doesn’t give him the time of day. He doesn’t get the ‘respect’ he usually would from the same people who see him with a beard.
How strange.