Have You Ever Thought About This?

[blackg]

Buzz it down as soon as you go above Norwood 2-3.

Here we go again...
That may work for you but it sure doesn't work for everyone.
Some guys look absolutely disgusting/retarded with the buzzed look.

You cant blame a sizable percentage of guys for keeping some semblance of hair and maybe wearing a hat on certain days.

Sure, it looks like the ultimate attempt at a cover up.
But it sure beats looking like a volatile mental patient on day release.

Either way... ya fucked.

 

[marco75]

I'd hardly call temple recession a walk in the park. I made the mistake of cutting my hair real short a couple months ago, thinking it would make my hairline situation stand out less, and I was almost immediately called out for the balding on my temples(in front of some females). So that was enough to scare me back to growing it out again on top. It's almost back to the length where I've learned how to make it pretty much look like I have a full head of hair, but it requires so much work and meticulous placing of strands to do that. So I wear a hat 95% of the time I leave home. I just keep that longer hair up there as a precaution, for those situations in which I can't really wear hats. I absolutely fear the idea of being called out again, although I'm sure it's bound to happen.

Do others on here have it worse? No doubt. But is it a walk in the park? No. I've become a hat prisoner.

Buzz it now, everyone knows you are balding and covering it with a bad combover/hat makes you look insecure.

 

[blackg]

Buzz it now, everyone knows you are balding and covering it with a bad combover/hat makes you look insecure.

And buzzing it is in no way "owning" hair loss.

It is the ultimate display of hair loss owning it's host.

I'll say it again.. Either way, we're fucked.

 

[kj6723]

Buzz it now, everyone knows you are balding and covering it with a bad combover/hat makes you look insecure.

No, they don't know. I barely have a social life now, but I'm still hearing down the pipeline about how handsome everyone thinks I am. As I explained above, it was when I cut it short I was exposed as a balding man. If I thought there was no hope, I probably would just own it and buzz it down, but since I recently started treatments and am planning on a transplant in the not too distant future, I'm hoping to go a while longer without gaining the bald stigma.

I don't think wearing a hat is as much of a giveaway as you're playing it up to be. I've known plenty of people without hair loss who just like to wear hats.

 

[marco75]

People will judge you just as much for buzzing it. I know it was the case for me, they said I looked retarded and like a skinhead, even though it was not true.

It's a situation where you just can't win. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

If it wasn't true then why care what people say, people that make comments like that are very insecure or nasty. Used to work with a guy who constantly talked about my baldness and other guys who were bald, he had a good head of hair but was a virgin at 40 and socially clueless and girl he fancied in the office was in love with me. Guys seem to care about it more than women.

 

[marco75]

As if it was possible not to care about what people think. You will care, and if you have to convince yourself that you don't care, it's too late, you already care.

But can never know what someone is thinking really even based on what they say sometimes, so you end up making wrong assumptions , projecting your own thoughts onto them etc, waste of time and the root cause of many mental and social problems

 

[marco75]

Watch their actions. I'm hypersensitive and quite socially aware, so I can always tell when someone dislikes me, it almost never fails.

Yes I bet it doesn't, self fulfilling prophecy.You assume someone dislikes you because of some random action (already being narcistic thinking everyone is thinking about you) then you act cold etc and they don't like you.

 

[kj6723]

@marco75, just curious, as such a strong advocate of the buzz, what Norwood are you? Do you rock the buzz yourself?