MEET the teenager suffering from a rare condition known as werewolf syndrome who has been called “monkey boy” by school children afraid they will bite him but he insists he has the same dreams as any other kid and he wants to be a video creator to help his family.

Lalit Patidar (17) a student from the small village Nandleta in Madhya Pradesh, India has been whose whole body was covered in hair from the age of just six when he diagnosed with an extremely condition called hypertrichosis so rare that is it thought only fifty people have been diagnosed with the condition since the Middle Ages.

Hypertrichosis is an abnormal amount of hair growth over the body. The two distinct types of hypertrichosis are generalised hypertrichosis, which occurs over the entire body, and localised hypertrichosis, which is restricted to a certain area.

Hypertrichosis can be either congenital (present at birth) or acquired later in life.

The excess growth of hair occurs in areas of the skin with the exception of androgen-dependent hair of the pubic area, face, and axillary regions.

Several circus sideshow performers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Julia Pastrana, had hypertrichosis. Many of them worked as “freaks” and were promoted as having animal-like traits.

Lalit leads a normal life despite his rare diagnosis, it is believed that only 50 cases of hypertrichosis have been reported since the middle ages.

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