Today, as a 17-year-old, after having gone to the doctor to about some unusual hair loss, it turns out I simply have crappy genetics, and should expect to be fully bald within a year. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, at 21 years of age, my doctor confirmed that I am, indeed, going bald. It wouldn't be such a bad thing, even expected, if I wasn't a woman. FML
Today, I'm 20 and I'm going bald. FML
Today, I looked at pictures of myself from 20 years ago when I was a teenager and realized I have only about a quarter of my hair left. I'm a woman. FML
Today, someone told me I have male pattern baldness; they thought so because I apparently have a "receding hairline." It's always been this way, I checked my pictures from the time I shaved my head when I was 16. FML
Today, I noticed several grey streaks in my hair while putting it in its usual combover. I'm only 18 years-old, and my hair was once one of my greatest sources of pride. FML
Today, I'm the only one in my family who doesn't need glasses and who isn't lactose intolerant. However, I'm the only one in my family rapidly balding at the age of 25. Even my grandparents on both sides have full heads of hair. FML
Today, I had to accept the fact that I'm going bald, after I noticed the hair on my chest is longer than the hair on my head. FML
Today, I have alopecia areata and I constantly have reappearing bald spots all over my head. I cannot properly grow a beard, and one of my eyes has no eyelashes. However, my nose hair seems to grow at the rate of an old man on biotin. FML
Today, while looking through a stack of possible pictures for Facebook, I found one I really liked, until I noticed that I have recently developed a bald patch. Problem? I am a 22 year old woman. FML
Today, like any other day for a year, I'm 17 years-old. Today, like any other day, I have my hair styled in a combover because I'm bald. FML
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Top comments
zedjaleaf1 11
At least you'll have a great career in magic eraser advertising. Sorry for your loss Mr. Clean.
RichardPencil 32
Now you need to hit the gym and become The Rock. Scrawny bald guys look like racists. Skinheads really ****** it up for you.
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zedjaleaf1 11
At least you'll have a great career in magic eraser advertising. Sorry for your loss Mr. Clean.
RichardPencil 32
Now you need to hit the gym and become The Rock. Scrawny bald guys look like racists. Skinheads really ****** it up for you.
Murgray D. John 12
GROW A BANGING GOATEE!!! And if you have glasses you'll look even cooler. If you're male that is.
Andrew Lachkovic 3
I started going bald about 6-7 years ago, shortly after high school graduation. Although I am pretty sparse on the front of my head, I still have a lot on the rest of my head and body. Just commenting so you know that it could take a while before it actually goes away completely.
darshini_ii 24
Completely bald is never partial bald. Be grateful kid.
Kayla Jones 9
Same it happend to me when I was 13. It'll get better.
iml1995 8
lupus! Dr.House "its never lupus"
mariri9206 32
Shave your head. Lots of guys do it and no one will question why. Also, like Iamnuff said, bald is better than balding. I think society will definitely be rude/judgmental and look at you weird if you were young and balding because, unfortunately, that's the world we live in.
mariri9206 32
Example: look up Beans (Steven Anthony Lawrence) from Even Stevens. He's only 26.
Suaria 38
My dad went balding in his late 20s. For as long as I can remember the top of his head is bald but he doesn't shave his sides. My two cousins who are brothers, one is going bald at 21 and the other one is completely bald at 25.
ACCOUNTKILLER 18
Genes aren't crap- how they are expressed depends on what we expose our bodies to
GhostFox 34
Uh. No, some genes really ARE just crap, ask pretty much anyone with a genetic disorder, but especially an early onset one.
ImminentDisaster 12
Our environment does affect how out genes are expressed, but if all your genes are crappy, then turning one off and another one on will still leave you with a crappy gene being expressed. Or, as I think is the case here, it's the crappy genes that are changing the expression of other genes.