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SINGAPORE – In primary school, children teased him with names like ‘vampire’ and ‘botak’.
Raffles Institution graduate Loh Yih Hang has no sweat glands and minimal salivary glands. The 18-year-old looks older than he is, with no hair and missing teeth.
“I look more or less like this since young,” he said.
“Back then I was a bit uncomfortable with it and I didn’t really know how to deal with it… but my parents told me not to care about what other people say about me,” said Yih Hang.
On Friday, he collected his A-level results from the school where he was a student for six years.
He scored straight As for all his subjects – H2 physics, chemistry, mathematics and geography, as well as H1 general paper and project work.
Yih Hang hopes to pursue computer science in a local or overseas university.
Diagnosed at birth with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, he is also susceptible to heat stroke as the condition makes him unable to sweat and expel heat.
But he also developed a “thick skin” to block the nasty comments, he said.
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