Beard dysmorphia?

I'm not sure if this is what it's called or if it's something other FTMs go though.. but I have a problem with having no beard. I'm not exactly sure why, but I can't get over it. Plenty of biologically born men don't have and can't grow beards and they seem totally okay with it. Why am I not okay with it?

Every time I take a photo of myself, I draw a fake beard or create one, to make it look as though I actually have one. Multiple people have pointed it out and it's embarrassing. I wish I could grow something realistic looking enough, a full beard with no patches, like Seneca Crane from the Hunger Games. Does anyone else feel this way? What should I do to get over this?

 

Hopefully. I have a bit, but not a whole lot. Sorry to hear that you may be feeling a bit of dysmorphia as well.

 

If that is the correct term, than I apologize. This thread was made after I had a deep, long train of thought based on recent events on my current profile picture on Facebook, which I'm now covering because I'm sick of all the "Did you draw on your beard?" questions.

I'm glad and sad that you feel that way as well. Glad, because there's someone out there who feels the same way I do and sad, because it's a terrible feeling to have. After thinking about it a bit more, I feel that it's an overall thing. I'm not desperate to show people that I am male, as in, doing things that aren't me, just to prove it with positive results. So with that, I know it has nothing to do with feeling less like a man. I suppose one day I'll understand it, it just doesn't seem to make sense, is all.