Hi everyone, I've had Alopecia Areata for about 13 or 14 years now.  Initially, I lost about 90% of my hair, but since that first year, I've had some pretty great regrowth (I'd say at any given moment I have about 80% of my hair, so it's not particularly noticeable except to myself).  This past year though, I noticed hair on the top of my head was thinning, and then just found a pretty big bald spot back towards my cowlick.  The spot is a little misshapen, maybe 2 inches by 1 inch, and the suddenness of the balding is making me think it's an Alopecia Areata bald spot as opposed to Male Pattern Baldness.  My family has a pretty good history of having heads of hair (aside from me and my cousin being shafted with AA).  I was wondering whether anyone else has ever had this sort of conflict: Is it AA or am I just balding?  I'm 26, and Alopecia Areata always gives me some odd comfort that I can beat it, whereas MPB seems like the long hand of fate shoving me towards complete baldness, so I kind of hope it's AA.  But I also recognize that as I get older, this line will continuously be blurred

Either way it's about to get doused in minoxidil hehe.