Hi Ray
Thank you so much for your encouraging words...
it is tough i must admit...
just the other day, i went out to a birthday gathering at a bar, with some friends I haven't seen in more than over a year now, and i was wearing a beanie (i have a wig, but i feel so out of my skin when i wear one, and the fear of it falling off!)
but behold...the worst of the worst happened...
as a joke one of the guys pulled off my beanie, without knowing the secret i was hiding...
humiliated, I ran out of the room crying, and he chased after me and apologized over and over again...I couldn't say anything, but that it wasn't his fault, because it really wasn't...there was no way he would've known that I was bald...(we haven't seen or talked to each other in over a year!) and its not like im going to go around everywhere announcing to everyone that i'm bald beneath my hats so that something like this wont happen ever again...
so I just left.
This was the first time i have ever been revealed in public.
Amongst people I used to know, and some, I barely know...
I don't know if this is a rare occurrence or a common one for us alopecians...
one thing for sure is, i am not a very happy camper...
MiNAH
love what you wrote to Esther and I do agree that society is blind!
Jan 22, 2010
Esther Ryu
Thank you so much for your encouraging words...
it is tough i must admit...
just the other day, i went out to a birthday gathering at a bar, with some friends I haven't seen in more than over a year now, and i was wearing a beanie (i have a wig, but i feel so out of my skin when i wear one, and the fear of it falling off!)
but behold...the worst of the worst happened...
as a joke one of the guys pulled off my beanie, without knowing the secret i was hiding...
humiliated, I ran out of the room crying, and he chased after me and apologized over and over again...I couldn't say anything, but that it wasn't his fault, because it really wasn't...there was no way he would've known that I was bald...(we haven't seen or talked to each other in over a year!) and its not like im going to go around everywhere announcing to everyone that i'm bald beneath my hats so that something like this wont happen ever again...
so I just left.
This was the first time i have ever been revealed in public.
Amongst people I used to know, and some, I barely know...
I don't know if this is a rare occurrence or a common one for us alopecians...
one thing for sure is, i am not a very happy camper...
Feb 2, 2010