I can't get used to this baldness thing

[HEyHEY]

Whenever I look in a mirror it's a big shock, and I keep rubbing it too. But, it IS fun! :toast:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Several years back I was taking a course on designing educational programs

and as part of the course we gave a lecture/presentation that was videotaped. When I reviewed the videotape of my presentation I kept looking at it like, there's something wrong with the color! There's this orangey spot on top of my head in the middle of my hair! Oh wait, it's my freaking bald spot!

The end of innocence. Sigh...

[Career Prole]

2. I took my kid brother to the beach when he visited me in San Diego.

The next morning I was combing my hair after my shower and I said "Damn! I got burnt so bad the top of my head even hurts!"
He said, "Not to make fun, but have you looked at the top of your head lately?" :o
I honestly had no idea up until then. It had just felt like it wasn't as curly. :eyes:

[Aftershock]

3. I'll be bald in a few years.

I blame genetics. :(

[lazarus]

4. I wish I could go bald

So I could quit shaving it. :D

[NightTrain]

5. Are you bald by choice?

I'm not. My hairline began to recededwhen I was 20. Now I'm 38 and have an obese, inverted mohawk! :cry:

[jukes]

6. don't rub it too much

i hear it causes blindness! (joshin' you, buddy)

[ForrestGump]

7. Just don't get any weird ideas...

If you find yourself sitting in the shadows, spalshing water over your head, seek professional help immediately.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. Dude, take it from me... bald since 1972... God only made

so many perfect heads. The rest he covered with nasty stinky hair.

[baldguy]

9. Some of us didn't have a choice.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Feh, the whole hair business is overrated. It's just external protein.

If I find myself in the whole balding position, I'll just get rid of it. No big deal. All the hairstyles I've ever had have been sub-par anyway.

[HEyHEY]

11. AH- I should mention I'm bald by choice

HEyHEY has not lost his hair!

[tigereye]

12. guys always have beautiful hair when they are young -

always seemed pretty unfair when it goes. My husband is a good example - he used to have a wild head of hair when we met. But ladies can still like guys with less hair. He always jokes about shaving it all off for the bald head effect, but then he'd have to get an earring. ;)

[HEyHEY]

13. I'm wondering if it will come back in weird

Curly or something

[tigereye]

16. big debate around here about whether bald heads are

sexier than those with hair. Jury is still out. And then guys have to get tatoos on their bald heads, right? Just kidding.

A lot of the guys I work with have shaved their heads, I guess that is the best form of denial, eh. Sort of a uniform for men in their late 20s and early 30s.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. To be fair to them, it's also acceptance.

They're just giving mother nature a leg up.

[tigereye]

18. good point

it does look better, I suppose, but I also kind of admire those who struggle on with it? I guess that doesn't really make sense, but that's how I feel. Maybe it seems like vanity to me, but maybe that is ok, too. JMO. :) See, my husband jokes about it, but he probably wouldn't do it and I don't know if that is a generational thing or not. He just accepts that it is going. I suppose when it reaches next to none, he might consider it. Hmmm.

[Courtesy Flush]

14. I'm new to it too

What has surprized me is how many women have told me they wish they could shave their head. Actually, there's nothing stopping them, but such is society.

I still rub my head quite a bit, even though it's been shaved since May.

I dearly love it. I can go straight from bed to whatever. I can actually wear a hat now (I could before, too, but had to keep it on for the rest of the day because of hat hair). If I get caught in the rain, no biggie. Out in the wind, no biggie. Someone offers a ride in their convertable, no biggie.

I should have done it years ago. I don't think I ever want hair again.

[HEyHEY]

15. Welcome to DU!

I will probably let mine re-grow (It was a drinking mistake)

[Book Lover]

19. Cm'on! It's a sign of virility

OK, so you did it by choice, but many women recognize that genetic baldness is the result of all those delightful male hormones sloshing about.