I had AU when I was first got this, eons ago, but now I have AA (fuzzy regrowth at the back meaning i have to shave it every few days) - and more importantly, eyebrows.

I am so damn glad I have eyebrows and long eyelashes. really.

But now my AA is changing. I can feel bits of my regrowth shrinking over the last couple of weeks. I had a sideburn type thing down near my left ear which is now gone and there's an empty spot right at the crown of my head. Now my patches have… Continue

My mum hates the fact I'm bald. She's embarassed by it.



I was in Sydney for a few days with my drama class and had the best time in my scarves, not my wig. My friends dont mind talking about my alopecia and I felt - and, dare i say it, looked :P - great. Whenever we were just around in the hotel, I didn't wear anything, aound the girls at least, and everyone was fine with it.



It made me realise how much pressure I feel from my mum to wear my hair.

It's currently… Continue

For one of my school subjects, I do french. The course is by distance, so I've never seen my teacher, though we talk on the phone. One of the units, we learn how to discribe people, or ourselves, in french. For the last year I have written "mes cheveux sont teints en rouge" - my hair is dyed red, which my wig is. The other day I finally did it. My workbook now says "Je suis chauve. Je vais l'alopecia." It seems a silly thing to be so excited about, but it feels really great. Something about… Continue

Students in their final year of high school in Australia sit the HSC. Drama students are required to present an individual project In my case, a performance.

I've never really publicly dealt with my alopecia and am in the process of designing a dramatic piece to deal about my own feelings and what it is to be an alopecian.

As part of this, I was wondering if anyone would be willing to tell me their alopecia story, or a story from their life relating to their alopecia. I wish to… Continue