How To Stop Caring About People Disapproving Of Your Baldness (and You In General)?

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Hair loss aside, I don't ever see myself wanting to be in a long term relationship again. I've dated a LOT of women in my past and simply realized, I don't want this. The issue most people have is that they NEED a partner. NEEDING someone to make you happy is not healthy. Well, I am well over the need and now I can't even summon the want or desire to continually date someone. true definition of a loner.

I can picture you being a forster Dad.

I have a male friend who fostered a teenage boy when he was like in early 30s..he was single at the time he took him in and then eventually he had a long term GF that he married.
the boy is now grown up and like his son.
he came from fucked up background troubled home. But nice kid he just needed some stability in his life.
 

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That day I was walking back home and a group of college kids walked past by me. They were completely quiet and as soon as they just got behind me, they started laughing loudly.

My hair has grown thick but the bald spot on my crown looks like a crater. I know they were laughing at my bald spot as this has happened before. I know I need to get a hair cut but it is really f*****g cruel.

The last time I got a hair cut my barber left the hair on my face and when I reached home, I saw in the mirror that my face was covered with hair. I always give my barbers 25% tip - so why this behavior?

with all due respect you should not be concerned about KIDS laughing at you. Caring about the perception of dumb ***, ignorant college kids is just as much your fault as it is their's.
 

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I can picture you being a forster Dad.

I have a male friend who fostered a teenage boy when he was like in early 30s..he was single at the time he took him in and then eventually he had a long term GF that he married.
the boy is now grown up and like his son.
he came from fucked up background troubled home. But nice kid he just needed some stability in his life.
I'm always weary of grown men adopting teenage boys.

Give it some thought.
 

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It happens to me as well. It happened even yesterday here in Bristol, when I got past some college guys. They didn't laugh loudly, though, English people must be discrete when mocking someone after all.
Meet me one night in Bristol.
 

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It happens to me as well. It happened even yesterday here in Bristol, when I got past some college guys. They didn't laugh loudly, though, English people must be discrete when mocking someone after all.

Meet me one night in Bristol.
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Jesus Dante, you have 'groupies' on this site.
 

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Hair loss aside, I don't ever see myself wanting to be in a long term relationship again. I've dated a LOT of women in my past and simply realized, I don't want this. The issue most people have is that they NEED a partner. NEEDING someone to make you happy is not healthy. Well, I am well over the need and now I can't even summon the want or desire to continually date someone. true definition of a loner.
Disagree

I think most everyone needs people to love and be loved by

We are social animals
 

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It happens to me as well. It happened even yesterday here in Bristol, when I got past some college guys. They didn't laugh loudly, though, English people must be discrete when mocking someone after all.

Except when mocking mates, lads tend to have almost no limits when making fun of their mates to their face. I've always felt I preferred it to the behind-the-back sh*t girls do.
 

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Except when mocking mates, lads tend to have almost no limits when making fun of their mates to their face. I've always felt I preferred it to the behind-the-back sh*t girls do.

Just curious do men mock girls behind backs?

i wonder if that is a gender 'pack' thing.
 

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Just curious do men mock girls behind backs?

i wonder if that is a gender 'pack' thing.

Yes, some of my friends will even mock their girlfriends in ways that they'd never want her to hear.

Mostly it's always to garner a few laughs though.
 

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with all due respect you should not be concerned about KIDS laughing at you. Caring about the perception of dumb ***, ignorant college kids is just as much your fault as it is their's.

I'm always skeptical about the oversensitive inferences of the members here. How does he/Dante know they were laughing at him?

Anecdote: when I was in a lab in college, my partner was being silly. I was laughing at his nonsensical random material. The prof saw me, was convinced that I was laughing at him, and gave me a lecture. Didn't believe that I wasn't laughing at him.
 

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It happens to me as well. It happened even yesterday here in Bristol, when I got past some college guys. They didn't laugh loudly, though, English people must be discrete when mocking someone after all.
We would nearly always be discrete when mocking someone and we would be embarrassed to be seen mocking someone.

We say mean things like any other culture but we don't want to the subject to have their feelings hurt.

This rule goes completely out of the window if we are drunk: if we are drunk we can be brutal. I once heard a group of men singing a song to a ginger man about having ginger pubes for 2 minutes straight.
 

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I'm always skeptical about the oversensitive inferences of the members here. How does he/Dante know they were laughing at him?

They stopped talking the moment the saw me, they walked past me without uttering a word, then suddenly bursted into laughter as soon as I was a few meters away. And I was the only guy in the street at the moment. But I was imagining things, no doubt.
 

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They stopped talking the moment the saw me, they walked past me without uttering a word, then suddenly bursted into laughter as soon as I was a few meters away. And I was the only guy in the street at the moment. But I was imagining things, no doubt.

They could be talking something sexual. Using some very vulgar language. It used to be standard in college/high school for us to stop talking when some adult was in hearing range, and then continue laughing once he/she was out of earshot.
 

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They could be talking something sexual. Using some very vulgar language. It used to be standard in college/high school for us to stop talking when some adult was in hearing range, and then continue laughing once he/she was out of earshot.

Sure, right. I wish I could be that optimistic and naive.
 
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