I don't care what you look like, so why should you care what I look like?
I don't care who you are to me, what we've been through together, who you know in relation to me, or what is in your past....I am kind to everyoneand keep my thoughts to myself. So why can't you be hush?
I can tell you why. Because you don't know what it's like to be looked at like you're hideous because you lack something everyone around you has. You've never been tormented by words that lead you to cry in front of your entire high school. You don't have the emotional strength that I've learned to build.

Criticize me. Stare at me. Talk about me. Laugh at me. Attempt to hurt me.
Do what ever makes YOU feel better about yourself.

Because living with Alopecia for about 8 years has taught me things you will never learn. I have learned to love myself, and to appreciate that I have to deal with not having hair as apposed to dealing with something much more worse.

Your words have hurt me in the past, but I've gotten stronger. And I've bettered myself to become someone I am so proud to be.

And I thank Alopecia.

Love who you are, no matter what, no matter what anyone thinks.