HOW did I not see your comment ? Are you still watching it ? ?<| sep |> The worst part is that we ' ve given them no reason not to . Fml <| sep |> Budget ? What kind of spec are you looking for . <| sep |> Joseph Merrick , also known as the Elephant Man , who was born a healthy baby boy and then it was basically all downhill from there . He developed thick and lumpy skin , swollen lips , a bony lump on his forehead and some of his limbs were enlarged . When he was a kid , he fell over and hurt his hip , becoming permanently lame . His beloved mother died and his father remarried neither his father nor his stepmother showed any affection towards him , so now he was pretty much a deformed version of Cinderella . As he got older , his deformity kept getting worse until he lost his job and became increasingly unable to speak intelligibly or even eat properly . His head was so massive in comparison to his body that he couldn ' t sleep lying down , for fear of waking up with a broken neck . He rarely met women , and allegedly had hopes to meet one that was blind so that she wouldn ' t be able to see his deformities . Merrick ' s health diminished over the years and he died at the age of 27 . The guy wasn ' t unlucky in the struck by lightning sense , but I feel he got such a raw deal growing up through no fault of his own . Really puts some of my more petty complaints into perspective .