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I went bald very young (started shaving my head around age 20/21 because there just wasn't enough left). It was a big hit to my confidence, especially as a tee
by ahoy 8y ago
I went bald very young (started shaving my head around age 20/21 because there just wasn't enough left).
It was a big hit to my confidence, especially as a teen. I also felt it prematurely "aged" me - I used to joke that I turned 28 on my 18th birthday.
It is nice that there are successful/attractive men who are bald to point to, but I was more often compared to Moby or Billy Corgan, not exactly sex symbols.
It all seems silly in retrospect but it felt very serious at that age. I'm so used to it now that I don't even think about it. It helps that I'm old enough that being bald is "age appropriate" and I stick out less than I did in college.
- michaelgrafl 8y agoI think it's worse when you're lacking confidence to begin with. My hair started thinning when I was around 20 and kept thinning till I was about 30. Now it seems to be in a steady state of horse-shoe pattern. I think it was worse for me when it began, as I started picturing all kind of terrible fates for me. I was obsessed with my hair density and wanted to kill myself. Now that I'm being bald and more mature and self-confident I'm not even sure I'd want to go back to having to do my hair again. And women don't seem to care at all. I'm still surprised by that, but the experiences I make every day make me wish I had lost all of my hair from one day to the next, just to get it over with. Also, I don't want to romantisize going bald, but I think it rounded out my character.