Meet Bayezid Hossain, 4-Year-Old Boy trapped in the body of an old man

Bayezid Hossain, a four-year-old boy from Bangladesh, is the boy who looks like an elderly pensioner because of a very rare condition.

It is believed that the young man suffers from progeria, which causes him difficulty in eating, gives him a swollen face, flaccid skin, hollow eyes, joint pain as well as weak teeth due to his aging eight times faster than normal.

Unfortunately, children of the same age as Bayezid are afraid of the rare condition, which means that they can not go to school. People in the community usually avoid it, even though after spreading the word about their birth, people queued outside their house to see it.

Tripti Khatun, the four-year-old mother, said: "Bayezid only learned to walk three years, but had a full set of teeth at three months of age.

"His physical growth is completely abnormal but mentally, he has wonderful conversation, very conscious and is very intuitive for his age.

"It does not look like other kids, it looks like an old man, as a mother for the first time I can not bear the pain of seeing my son like that."

When Bayezid was born in 2012, the doctors were astonished and unable to help Tripti and her husband, Lovelu Hossain.

"I was terrified to see him when he was born," Tripti said. "It was flesh and bones, it looked like an alien and it was heartbreaking for me.

"The doctors did not know what to do, they said they had never seen such a baby, they warned us that they could not do anything."

Unfortunately, Tripti and Lovelu did not receive help from their local community, who instead gossiped about their son, and discussed their abilities as parents, since they are also cousins.

Typically, those suffering from progeria have a short life, usually dying from heart attacks or strokes at an average age of 13.

Bayezid has been labeled the "old man" by the locals, but is being slowly accepted.

According to his mother, he fully understands his condition, but cries every time he talks.

His father, Lovelu, has accepted that there can be no cure for Bayezid, but also believes that his son is not getting the best chance of survival because his family is poor.

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