When I first began to have alopecia at the age of 23, I constantly asked myself, how will I ever learn to live with this thing. In the first 3-5 years I became extremely focused on my spots, and I was almost certain that people would either laugh or talk about my spots behind my back. In a few years I had developed a 'constant acute awareness' of other people's behaviour, and it was almost like being a 'human-radar'. Everything out of 'the ordinary' I would pick up and process.

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