Cute kids!

Roger.

Hi , first of all thank you for accepting my friend invite. This is actually the first time that i have talked to someone other than my wife or family about my sons Alopecia and will understand what i am talking about. My oldest has had Alopecia Totalis since he was 3, when he was diagnosed i thought that i had done something wrong with him (i don't know how else to put it) like not giving him enough vitamins or there was too much stress being put on him. I was confused and scared ( btw i was only 17 when he was born). My mom was the one that told me that i should not treat him any different than i would a son with hair. I don't know if that makes sense to you? I felt like i should not let anyone stare at my son. I felt so over protective towards him. I don't know if his first day of school was harder for him or me. ( WOW I AM LETTING OUT ALOT RIGHT NOW!!! THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME AN OUTLET) When he came home from his first day of school i had already imagined the teasing, the laughing at his expense. So i sat him down and asked him about his first day. His response was "can i go back right now". I knew right their and then that he was going to be ok. Since then he has excelled in sports mainly football He has never had any kind of treatments. Their was this one Dermatologist that suggested Cortizone shots to the scalp when he was 6 but the look that my son gave me when he heard about it was NO!!! As for it running in the family i have nobody that has had it or in my ex wifes family. As for the 10 year old he started getting bald spots when he was 8 then the spots would grow back. About 10 months ago he started to lose about 3/4 of his hair. So he made the decision to have his older brother and me cut off the remaining hair and shave it. He is having a harder time with it than his brother. Their Stepmom has also been their to give them any kind of support. We just had a newborn so i guess i will find out whether it was something in me or my x wife or maybe it was the combination of both of us. Once again thanks for the ear... if you have any more questions let me know... i copied my last comment and pasted to you also

I have 4 kids and currently I only know that one of them as alopecia (AU) but I didn't develop any signs of it until I was 20, so I really have no way of knowing if my other kids will ever lose their hair or not and/or to what degree