why is it assumed?

that all bald women are fighting cancer? Everyone just assumes that a woman with no hair has cancer. I'm sick of people assuming I have cancer! I don't have cancer.

I just get so frustrated with this. People ask me ALL the time if I have cancer, or worse, just ASSUME i do. Has anyone else experienced this? What do you do?

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Permalink Reply by shirley gray on January 12, 2010 at 7:40am
It happens all the time! shirley
Permalink Reply by Mary on January 27, 2010 at 11:03am
Hi everyone,

I've been traveling, and a few days ago I had yet another variation on this theme: I had boarded an aircraft, and was in standing in my seat, waiting for the rest of the flight to board (bald, since it was a little warm), and a woman came down the aisle as she boarded and grabbed my arm and said something about how we're "sisters". I didn't get it until she saw my puzzled look and told me she'd just passed 10 years. So I told her I don't have cancer, and gave her one of my cards.

It doesn't make me angry anymore...but it always pulls me out of my place of forgetting that I'm bald and just going about my day.
Permalink Reply by Suzi on January 27, 2010 at 3:39pm
Don't be mad, people simply don't have concept about alopecia. I never heard for alopecia myself, before it strikes first my mother, and now 10 years after me also.
Permalink Reply by Mary on February 11, 2010 at 9:51pm
2nd annual National Bald Out Day - all over the world - Saturday, July 17, 2010!

It's up to us to change the cancer perception.

Join the National Bald Out Group on AW, and organize an event where you live - one person, or many.

See you OUT there

Mary

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