Parents and hair loss

[elliotramsey]

My mother is probably the only one who gives a s&$# that I have a receding hairline (buzzed).

The other night i washed my face and went to take my medicine with the soap still on my face so it could "soak in". My mom happened to be in the kitchen at the time, so she asked me if i "massaged the soap into my skin", typical mother nagging thing. Except the whole time she wasn't looking at my face she was staring RIGHT at my hairline. Her eyes kept darting back and forth from my face to my hair. She was being so obvious about it!

Then tonight, pretty much the same thing, except we were at a restaurant! and i was excitedly telling her about how I was tracking a storm on GRLevel2 Analyst (I want to be a meteorologist). I was all excited because I figured out how to see the rotation in a storm.

Anyways.. the ENTIRE time i'm telling her this her eyes keep moving UP then down then UP again. It made me feel so friggin self conscience like wtf? I wasn't even worried about my hair at the time!! Thanks mom!! I don't even know why she is making a deal about it, my hair has been buzzed for 5 months and the hairline hasn't changed much!

Anyone else have parent - hairloss stories?

 

[LooseItAll]

Well you have a golden mom, I wish mine wasn't telling me that everything is fine. I would have save up a lot of money that way on hair transplant.

 

[prometheus]

LOL Well my mum just looks at me like I have some sort of an illness, there seems to be VERY minimal hairloss in my family (cousins, uncletc etc...)...which is very annoying

 

[elliotramsey]

I don't understand it because my dad is bald! She doesn't look at him weird!

 

[prometheus]

parents are weird...and dont always understand our insecurities.

well my dad has a full head of hair, that what makes the problem worse for me, bloody hate it!

 

[Belmondo]

[...] Anyone else have parent - hairloss stories?

Yes, I have lots of those stories.

My mother and I had a difficult relationship a few years ago and she always used my hair loss problem to humiliate me.

She would constantly say things like 'have you seen that guy? He has amazing hair' or she would give these really imbecile suggestions like 'you should eat cucumbers, it's good for your hairloss problem' or to wash my scalp with some stupid tea. I don't know if she was being vicious or genuinely stupid.

 

[LooseItAll]

When I was 19 and a NW3 headed to a NW4, my dad told me to "embrace" my baldness. He told me that I should feel "priviledged" and that I am actually very lucky to have such a unique head of hair - one that none of my friends had. :jackit:.

Unique... Hope he didn't want you to thank him for this... privileage...

My mother and I had a difficult relationship a few years ago and she always used my hair loss problem to humiliate me.

She would constantly say things like 'have you seen that guy? He has amazing hair' or she would give these really imbecile suggestions like 'you should eat cucumbers, it's good for your hairloss problem' or to wash my scalp with some stupid tea. I don't know if she was being vicious or genuinely stupid.

I cant believe a mother can do such things to her own child. Hope she wasn't at least the one with the balding gene

 

[elliotramsey]

Wow that sucks! The only time my mom actually talked about my hair was when I pretty much broke down telling her that i was loosing my hair (this was over a year ago now).. she pretty much just told me that I was imagining it. Haha.. she did make me an appointment to see the derm though, a lot of good that did.

Now my grandma.. lol.. last thanksgiving my hair was buzzed short (still is).. my grandma from out of town came in and said "Dan you buzzed your head! It looks good!" To which my grandma across the street said "He has that receding hairline!" :roceeds to touch my forehead and trace my hairline.

THEN after dinner my Aunt asked me if i was gonna grow out my hair again. Before I could answer my grandma was like "He's got that receding hairline!" :oints to my head:: "Uncle Sunny had that same exact hairline!"

haha

 

[Michael84]

...or she would give these really imbecile suggestions like 'you should eat cucumbers, it's good for your hairloss problem' or to wash my scalp with some stupid tea. I don't know if she was being vicious or genuinely stupid.

I have the same when my mother uses my hair loss to force me do something: if I don't like some food she tells me to eat it because it's good for my hair, if I don't want to wear a cap, she tells me to do so because my hair will fall off. This annoys me as hell. I can hardly restrain from being really rude.

 

[HairPieceMan]

well i started losing it at 19 with diffused thinning (no recession) so i basically looked terrible ill as im pale and 5 4 to, my mum used to say THE MOST retarded things about my hair, like "your hair is just fine"...I am the time didn't know what was happening, i didn't know what baldness was as it was too early, i thought it was maybe something else, so i just shaved myself clean bald at 22 and had to wet shave it everyday for 10 minutes, my mum kapt saying i looked fine, but i was ANYTHING but fine, she was probably THE ONLY woman that thought i looked "fine" bald, she even asked me if i was gay last month, and i was like "NO MUM WTF I WAS BALDING AT 19 NO WONDER I DIDN'T HAVE GIRLS UNLESS I WAS LOOKING TO DATE 40 YEAR OLDS"

honestly it's like my mum had more denial issues about my baldness than I did.

oh and my dad is in his 60s and is a NW1 \o/