BruceMackenzie
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Hey guys,
So I started noticing my hair was falling out aged 20, although now looking back at photographs it looks like I initially started balding around 19 without realising, funny how that works. Anyway I'm currently 22 now and it's been kicking my *** pretty hard. I would put myself as a NW3V. I seem to do reasonably well with meds as far as I could tell, but I convinced myself that I wanted a hair transplant as soon as possible. So I got off them so my hair would be in its poorest condition before the operation (what a fool I am). Anyway, I then changed my mind and decided against the operation, and to wait at least a couple more years on the meds again and see where that takes me, and with some cautious optimistic hope that further treatments may emerge.
For me, I feel my age is perhaps a blessing in disguise. Although it is a truly awful condition to have in early life, and sometimes I can't help but scream why couldn't my genes have held off for another five or ten years. The other side of the coin is that maybe if something concrete comes out in the next 5-7 years I can count myself lucky that I can still be considered a 'young man' with a second chance at social situations (girls mainly, God sometimes I wish I was a-sexual, but I love em). I know this feels like this should be perhaps put with the introduction thread, but I've placed it here because I have some questions regarding the impact of this disease and I feel like as fellow balding people, perhaps you may have the experience that I lack.
Essentially (sorry, finally getting to the point I promise) during this period of time where I don't believe I can achieve maximum success with my attractiveness (I'm also fairly short at 5 foot seven, on a good day) I want to attempt to make myself an impressive a person as possible. It's a difficult topic to approach because it seems to illicit antagonism from both sides where some will say baldness doesn't have an impact on your impressiveness, attractiveness etc, but for the sake of the argument, in my mind it certainly does. Furthermore some will say forget it, no point in even trying to improve yourself because baldness is all they will see, but I think this is a self-defeatist attitude. Basically what can a man do to improve himself. I thought of a few obvious things in terms getting in shape, learning as much as possible, career driven, learning another language, I think this is especially important in the anglosphere where the vast majority don't bother with learning a second language. So are there any other things people can think of or that have personally been instrumental in helping them improve their social standing whilst bald or balding?
If people have been bothered to take the time to read all that, thank you.
So I started noticing my hair was falling out aged 20, although now looking back at photographs it looks like I initially started balding around 19 without realising, funny how that works. Anyway I'm currently 22 now and it's been kicking my *** pretty hard. I would put myself as a NW3V. I seem to do reasonably well with meds as far as I could tell, but I convinced myself that I wanted a hair transplant as soon as possible. So I got off them so my hair would be in its poorest condition before the operation (what a fool I am). Anyway, I then changed my mind and decided against the operation, and to wait at least a couple more years on the meds again and see where that takes me, and with some cautious optimistic hope that further treatments may emerge.
For me, I feel my age is perhaps a blessing in disguise. Although it is a truly awful condition to have in early life, and sometimes I can't help but scream why couldn't my genes have held off for another five or ten years. The other side of the coin is that maybe if something concrete comes out in the next 5-7 years I can count myself lucky that I can still be considered a 'young man' with a second chance at social situations (girls mainly, God sometimes I wish I was a-sexual, but I love em). I know this feels like this should be perhaps put with the introduction thread, but I've placed it here because I have some questions regarding the impact of this disease and I feel like as fellow balding people, perhaps you may have the experience that I lack.
Essentially (sorry, finally getting to the point I promise) during this period of time where I don't believe I can achieve maximum success with my attractiveness (I'm also fairly short at 5 foot seven, on a good day) I want to attempt to make myself an impressive a person as possible. It's a difficult topic to approach because it seems to illicit antagonism from both sides where some will say baldness doesn't have an impact on your impressiveness, attractiveness etc, but for the sake of the argument, in my mind it certainly does. Furthermore some will say forget it, no point in even trying to improve yourself because baldness is all they will see, but I think this is a self-defeatist attitude. Basically what can a man do to improve himself. I thought of a few obvious things in terms getting in shape, learning as much as possible, career driven, learning another language, I think this is especially important in the anglosphere where the vast majority don't bother with learning a second language. So are there any other things people can think of or that have personally been instrumental in helping them improve their social standing whilst bald or balding?
If people have been bothered to take the time to read all that, thank you.
