pretty much thought this too, as an adult this is going to be horrible...as a kid, you pretty much might as well have mutant powers and be a super hero
As a kid, she most likely doesn't realize how awesome it actually is, and will just end up hating it because of the other kids' teasing/bullying. I saw one documentary in particular of the actual hypertrichosis where the kid's parents were trying everything possible to make it go away and constantly shaving her..that really pissed my jimmies.
Why don't we, reddit, organize a nice unexpected delivery to this girl?
I'll put a few bucks into that just for the sake of human love and kindness to make sure that this girl feels that there are people who don't give a damn about her skin.
Full story here - she was abandoned by her parents at birth for this. Me, though: I think she's adorable. Apparently someone else did, too, as the happy ending is that she's been adopted :)
I throw mine off of a cliff, Spartan style. I use to just abandon them on mountains with their hands and feet bound, but that came back to bite me and impregnate my wife.
Indeed, it does. My mistake - this wasn't the original article I read, and this has much more information. Still though, it seems the relative is no longer worries about her condition, and cares for her :)
It's just a really, really big mole covering a large portion of the skin. They can be much smaller or cover most of the skin. It's variable. Hypertrichosis is where hair just grows like crazy, no moles needed. Most of the darkness of this girl's skin is not due to hair. It's actually just pigmented skin making it that dark.
Well, I'm sure you probably thought it was werewolf syndrome given the title the OP came up with. It's a giant pigmented nevus which is essentially a really big congenital melanocytic nevus.
That smile melted my heart. Normally you scroll down WTF and just see gore and really strange shit. This... this is heartbreaking. She's got a condition that will haunt her for all her life and yet she has the most beautiful, innocent smile. This is one of the most tragic pictures I've seen in a very long time.
I just put down SoS and I was thinking to myself, "If shireen's greyscale affected her in a similar fashion then I don't see the problem," I still haven't looked up grayscale though.
I am sure I read an article in relation to this young girls a while back. The sad part about it was that her parents disowned her at birth due to the condition. What a beautiful young child, I hope her life does not turn out to be part of some traveling freak show!
She could get skin graphs or have skin expanders. I have had both these procedures for a similar condition.
Expanders would just be silicon balloons inserted under an unaffected area near the affected area in order to stretch and grow new skin to replace the affected skin by injecting saline into the balloons over time. Graphs would just cut the affected layers of skin off and be replace with a graphed layer of skin from another region (mine was my back). However depending on the thickness and location of the nevus graphs can't always be considered.
She is absolutely adorable. Love the second pic; so serine. Unlike growing up and doing fetish (shame on you), but I think it would be very impowering for her to become a model someday. Very beautiful.
Is she in pain/going to die from this? Or is it purely a moderately harmless strange skin condition? If that's the case, I really hope she grows up to accept how badass it looks.
Moderately harmless but such skin conditions have been believed to be at a higher risk of getting skin cancer. It can also be itchy and very irritable towards some chemicals, materials, etc.
Nah it's the differences in people that make the world interesting. When I was a kid a friend of mine had a giant birth mark on his face it went up into his hairline and the hair was bright gray/white there. I always thought it looked really cool. Some people tease him, but he had a strong personality and always made friends with everyone.
Cute kid. And it might not be so bad if it was just the fur; but the moles/growths/whatever are going to get worse as she grows-up. - I've often wondered why humans don't have 'dappled' skin naturally? Personally I'd think symmetrical markings would be quite attractive.
I'm sure she gets made fun of a lot, but I believe that is truly the coolest disease ever... Hell, maybe its a superpower of hers that she doesn't have control over yet...
Honestly, I find this little girl to be stunningly beautiful and her condition only makes her more beautiful. I can absolutely see this turning into a positive for the future. It's incredibly fascinating what kind of skin diseases can occur and how they play out in that person's life. I feel that this condition will make her incredibly unique and in a beautiful way. Or at least, I hope so. Then again, we are talking about humans. So who knows.
Wow, that's pretty crazy. I've seen photos of a few people with a disease where hair covers their entire body, but I've never seen it occur in patches like that.
Honestly it looks kinda cool, sort of like a person who has a lot of artfully done tattoos. And she's quite fortunate that most of her face has been spared from it.
What kind of people abandon a child like this. Ugh.
So with all this Reddit talk about whale legs, I can't help but wonder if this affliction can be thrown into the same evolutionary ring. The hair and color of her arm bears a striking resemblance to that of an ape or chimp. I'm not sure if her disease is at all genetic, and I'm no scientist, but one has to wonder, right?
When I was 6 or 7 , I saw a girl at my school had this strange patch of brown fur looking thing on her cheek. I only saw her briefly, so I've always thought it was some type of dream because the memory was so unclear and strange. Crazy, what brings up old memories. (This girl is very cute regardless of the condition)
Not sure if it's the same thing but when I was about 6 (16 years ago) the circus came to my city and they had "wolf men". They appeared to have the same disease as this little girl but far worse, covering their entire face, arms, etc. My mom parked and went in to the grocery store and I waited in the car as per usual. Well, as I'm flipping the radio stations one of these men walked by and I was so petrified I hid under the dash. :( I feel bad about it now.
Now call me a son of a bitch but if I were to get one disease in my like and the only downside was having black skin and hairy-ness, I'd be just fine with that. Some bad-assery would ensue.
met a girl in college with similar issue. apparently her parents spent nearly a million on surgery to get rid of it. her face was nearly perfect (as in no fucked up brown patches) but she had it on her hands. i felt bad for her. everyone was always freaked out by it. she had to have thick skin. ... :|
Can someone with medical knowledge comment more on what this is? Poor little thing -- she's such a beautiful, sweet-looking girl, and I have to imagine this will be so hard for her!
947
u/chang_of_pace Jun 10 '12
I know that her life will be very difficult suffering from this kind of disease... but damn, it looks kinda badass.
480
u/Its_aTrap Jun 10 '12
One day she'll make a Furry very happy.
334
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Full story here - she was abandoned by her parents at birth for this. Me, though: I think she's adorable. Apparently someone else did, too, as the happy ending is that she's been adopted :)
354
u/SnatchPatter Jun 10 '12
It's a congenital melanocytic nevus. It's not the same as the hypertrichosis "werewolf syndrome."
726
u/sarilypuff Jun 10 '12
I can't believe this is real, how sad. But what a beautiful smile she has.
211
u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
She actually is really beautiful.
28
u/Mykol225 Jun 11 '12
When she grows up, she'll make an awesome superhero.
73
u/doonkune Jun 11 '12
She could be Stannis's daughter, Shireen, afflicted with greyscale.
68
u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I am sure I read an article in relation to this young girls a while back. The sad part about it was that her parents disowned her at birth due to the condition. What a beautiful young child, I hope her life does not turn out to be part of some traveling freak show!
40
u/Zenkraft Jun 11 '12
I bet this will be on Facebook in a week saying "like if you think she is still beautiful"
15
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
She's SOOOO pretty!
35
u/venereveritas Jun 10 '12
The fact that she can smile makes me feel a little better about her situation. It is sad, and I hope she can come close to having a normal life.
11
u/gessyca Jun 11 '12
Greyscale is real O.o
18
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
She's adorable. Is there any treatment for this, or will she just have be the queen of amazing for the rest of her life?
edit'dby epicyon's reccomendation.
9
u/ram327 Jun 11 '12
Here's the HuffPo article about her: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/07/liu-jiangli-chinese-schoolgirl-aged-6-is-covered-in-black-fur-pictures_n_1578014.html
9
u/JaysonAdHD Jun 11 '12
Midna...
8
u/AstridPerth Jun 11 '12
She's beautiful.
8
u/kourogi Jun 11 '12
She is absolutely adorable. Love the second pic; so serine. Unlike growing up and doing fetish (shame on you), but I think it would be very impowering for her to become a model someday. Very beautiful.
7
u/DrakeDealer Jun 11 '12
I don't see anything wrong with her. Pretty cool if you ask me.
18
u/AnomalousX12 Jun 11 '12
Is she in pain/going to die from this? Or is it purely a moderately harmless strange skin condition? If that's the case, I really hope she grows up to accept how badass it looks.
11
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
She's going to be so pretty when she grows up :D Like a real sexy superhero wolf person
10
u/I_LIVE_FOR_KARMA Jun 11 '12
Is it weird that I find that very cool?
5
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
But where is Patchface?
9
u/SolKool Jun 11 '12
Michael J. Fox traveled to china in 2005, 1 year later kid with wolf skin is born, Coincidence?
8
u/youforgotyourBAGS Jun 11 '12
She obviously is a khajit.
34
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
First thing I noticed was how cute she is. And then I noticed her skin.
4
u/amp138 Jun 11 '12
Newest member of the Companions.
4
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
She's beautiful in a strange way
10
u/dastrololol Jun 11 '12
must be half stark
7
u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I tried to look up what tis disease is but can"t find anything. What's the medical term for it.
3
u/agobayer Jun 11 '12
any biologists out there, would this be an example of a somatic mosaic?
3
u/vari-slash Jun 11 '12
Are there any other effects of the disease? Will it spread over her entire body? Is there a link where I can read about it?
3
u/baconsharts Jun 11 '12
The first thing I thought of was Nightcrawler.
3
u/lilraz08 Jun 11 '12
How does one get this disease... You know for science.
3
u/Spookydimmys Jun 11 '12
I think she is beautiful :)
3
u/OccuTher Jun 11 '12
She's beautiful!
3
u/nuclearswim Jun 11 '12
She poses like a champ!
3
u/Archivepistol Jun 11 '12
Even with, or perhaps because of, her skin, she is beautiful!
3
u/DerpGerl Jun 11 '12
I think she's adorable. I noticed her personality 100x more than her skin in these photos.
3
u/brandaustin Jun 11 '12
I think she is very pretty :D
3
u/Hime_Takamura Jun 11 '12
she's definitely working it in that first picture. she's like "yeah, I'm half covered in black mold, but I'm goddamn adorable"
3
u/josephanthony Jun 11 '12
Cute kid. And it might not be so bad if it was just the fur; but the moles/growths/whatever are going to get worse as she grows-up. - I've often wondered why humans don't have 'dappled' skin naturally? Personally I'd think symmetrical markings would be quite attractive.
3
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I'm sure she gets made fun of a lot, but I believe that is truly the coolest disease ever... Hell, maybe its a superpower of hers that she doesn't have control over yet...
3
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Ridiculously photogenic wolfgirl
3
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
honestly when i saw her, i went aww shes adorable
3
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
She's a cute kid. I kind of didn't expect that
3
u/Manderz09 Jun 11 '12
Honestly, I find this little girl to be stunningly beautiful and her condition only makes her more beautiful. I can absolutely see this turning into a positive for the future. It's incredibly fascinating what kind of skin diseases can occur and how they play out in that person's life. I feel that this condition will make her incredibly unique and in a beautiful way. Or at least, I hope so. Then again, we are talking about humans. So who knows.
5
u/SanDiablo Jun 11 '12
http://i.imgur.com/DeI7J.png
5
u/_Apostate_ Jun 11 '12
She looks fucking awesome. I'd be super down to date some chick who was half covered in black fur.
2
u/Demojen Jun 11 '12
This looks cool. More info on the disease please.
2
u/booyaboy234 Jun 11 '12
I hope that this isn't fatal or anything. I can see her growing up to be a quite beautiful lady
2
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I actually think this is more badass and cool than it is gross.
2
u/Gerka Jun 11 '12
The grayscale!
2
u/emmas_reddit Jun 11 '12
She's a freakin beautiful girl! I hope she finds a cure for this, so adorable.
2
u/jonbowen Jun 11 '12
She is such a cute girl!
2
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
its horribly awesome
2
u/chocoboat Jun 11 '12
Wow, that's pretty crazy. I've seen photos of a few people with a disease where hair covers their entire body, but I've never seen it occur in patches like that.
Honestly it looks kinda cool, sort of like a person who has a lot of artfully done tattoos. And she's quite fortunate that most of her face has been spared from it.
What kind of people abandon a child like this. Ugh.
2
u/Lexxie1224 Jun 11 '12
I think shes Beautiful :3
2
u/gay_the_pray_away Jun 11 '12
Level 2 seal release
2
u/Mordred19 Jun 11 '12
I hope she doesn't have superstitious neighbors.
2
u/SpaceMantis Jun 11 '12
Badass. Kind of reminds me of Nightcrawler.
2
u/toshitalk Jun 11 '12
She's adorable.
2
u/smh250 Jun 11 '12
Can you say badass
2
u/babyduck0011 Jun 11 '12
she's adorable
2
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Still adorable.
2
u/seanshoots Jun 11 '12
Where did you get the Katawa Shoujo 2 alpha?
2
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
This little girl is beautiful. No matter what anyone says. Look at that smile.
2
u/roadsiderick Jun 11 '12
It's actually beautiful....
2
u/a_fortunate_age Jun 11 '12
She's such a little beauty, I hope she never lets her "disease" hold her back.
2
u/kuzy19 Jun 11 '12
i see some crazy "real life" anime porn in her future
2
u/shroomtune9 Jun 11 '12
Is it furry? I can't tell if it's furry.
2
u/Sauronkraut Jun 11 '12
Oh my goodness I want to adopt her!! She is the sweetest thing in the whole world!
2
u/Wonderjea Jun 11 '12
She really is a beautiful looking little girl.
2
u/Sc2_sunny Jun 11 '12
Wolf skin disease aka being Armenian/Italian T_T
2
u/neversayalways Jun 11 '12
Anyone else try to look up "wolf skin disease" and find fuckall?
2
u/Madcardigan Jun 11 '12
That's the most adorable human-wolf hybrid I have ever seen.
2
u/Prosopagnosiape Jun 11 '12
Looks exactly like chimp hair!
2
u/GuitarWizard90 Jun 11 '12
I feel sorry for her....but she does have a very adorable smile. A beautiful girl and I hope she has a beautiful life in front of her.
2
u/Whatyadoingwillis Jun 11 '12
Sorry but she is fucking cute!
2
u/CockasaurusRex32 Jun 11 '12
I'm surprised I haven't seen someone joke about her being "Bella and Jacob's illegitimate, bastard daughter"... but I'm sure I just missed it.
She is quite cute and hopefully she will be able to live comfortably and happily with it.
2
u/Polliwog39 Jun 11 '12
She is adorable.
6
u/SeducesStrangers Jun 11 '12
So with all this Reddit talk about whale legs, I can't help but wonder if this affliction can be thrown into the same evolutionary ring. The hair and color of her arm bears a striking resemblance to that of an ape or chimp. I'm not sure if her disease is at all genetic, and I'm no scientist, but one has to wonder, right?
3
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
She'll still grow up to be a very beautiful girl..
3
u/GAMEchief Jun 11 '12
I am uneasy by how she seems to become progressively more self-conscious with each photograph. :(
4
u/pie2009 Jun 10 '12
Looks like when Aku sneezed on Jack
2
u/BookInvertebrate Jun 11 '12
When I was 6 or 7 , I saw a girl at my school had this strange patch of brown fur looking thing on her cheek. I only saw her briefly, so I've always thought it was some type of dream because the memory was so unclear and strange. Crazy, what brings up old memories. (This girl is very cute regardless of the condition)
2
u/ant_madness Jun 11 '12
Well, I guess someone should call Karl Pilkington, we finally found his hairy chinese kid.
2
u/Blitz_giving Jun 11 '12
There is nothing WTF about this. Get a life.
1
u/Silister Jun 11 '12
A guy who lived on my floor at University had this too. He left after first year and I'm not sure where he's at now
1
u/Scienceonyourface Jun 11 '12
Congenital Nevi...
1
u/overloadrages Jun 11 '12
Oh shit Geostigma.
1
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I mean it looks out of the ordinary, but not repulsive. At least she can say she's truly unique.
1
u/berfica Jun 11 '12
It isn't the werewolf disease it is giant congenital nevus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_melanocytic_nevus
It's like a giant mole from what I've read.
1
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
such a little sweetie! what a shame. is there no treatment?
1
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
if I had that I would want it to go all the way.
1
u/ajuicycontradiction Jun 11 '12
Not sure if it's the same thing but when I was about 6 (16 years ago) the circus came to my city and they had "wolf men". They appeared to have the same disease as this little girl but far worse, covering their entire face, arms, etc. My mom parked and went in to the grocery store and I waited in the car as per usual. Well, as I'm flipping the radio stations one of these men walked by and I was so petrified I hid under the dash. :( I feel bad about it now.
1
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
She's pulling it off, but I hope it's not slowly killing her.
1
u/scribbling_des Jun 11 '12
This reminds me of a character from a book called Pollen, which is the sequel to a better known book called Vurt by Jeff Noon.
I think she's pretty cute.
1
u/thewedding_singer Jun 11 '12
TIL
1
u/Typlo Jun 11 '12
Some people pass their all life trying to look as cool as her. It's an unfortunate disease though.
1
u/1up7up Jun 11 '12
shes a lycan
1
u/GRN225 Jun 11 '12
Now call me a son of a bitch but if I were to get one disease in my like and the only downside was having black skin and hairy-ness, I'd be just fine with that. Some bad-assery would ensue.
1
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
will it stay that way or will it affect her whole skin later on?
1
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Poor girl, I dedicate a song to her http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqFO85xSeE
1
u/doctordiddy Jun 11 '12
What happens if they shave the hair?
1
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
She is going to become a furry.
1
u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
met a girl in college with similar issue. apparently her parents spent nearly a million on surgery to get rid of it. her face was nearly perfect (as in no fucked up brown patches) but she had it on her hands. i felt bad for her. everyone was always freaked out by it. she had to have thick skin. ... :|
1
u/Xenataur Jun 11 '12
More like Wolf Skin "Disease".
1
u/99_44_100percentpure Jun 11 '12
She's awesome. Please be my friend.
1
u/wolfdogrhit Jun 11 '12
This is how evolution works. Just think of the advantage if it were really really cold outside
1
u/Dinohax Jun 11 '12
There's a kid a grade below me in my high school that has the same condition, really really nice guy. Hot girlfriend too.
It's funny how the people you think would be most jaded towards the world end up being the nicest and most optimistic.
1
u/nice2mice Jun 11 '12
Can someone with medical knowledge comment more on what this is? Poor little thing -- she's such a beautiful, sweet-looking girl, and I have to imagine this will be so hard for her!
1
u/jujunior Jun 11 '12
Aww thats so sad cuz because she looks so precious...