To basically start, I was diagnosed with Alopecia when I was 10 years old. At the time I was just a kid and had no idea how rude and mean people could be at the time. Had no friends until High School because kids wanted to poke fun and be ignorant, this was when Alopecia was not as known back then. Long story short some hair came back but never all the way, in High school continuing on to now I have such amazing people in my life and never thought about my hair loss to much. It became who I am and I accepted it, things come and go. I was able to still have certain hair styles because the top of my head had no problem growing for the last 5 years. It wasn't until I was arrested for traffic tickets and had to sit in jail for 26 days I had noticed the front of my Mohawk that I had been growing for a year and a half was falling out as well as in the back. I fell back into the depression on losing more hair that I don't have, the one hair style I could do I couldn't do any longer. When I got out I shaved it off and my friends sat there and said "Why did you do that?". For a while it hit me hard because I didn't want to, but then I started to think back when I had no head hair and no body hair. At least I had enough to have some hair on my head(still none on the body or eyebrow hair though lol). I then remembered all of my friends and family telling me throughout these 15 years that this hair loss became who I am, with all of them telling me "You wouldn't be you with eyebrows and a full set of hair".........And there right, Alopecia made me who I am today. It is a bother at times and it does suck, but when I am comfortable with what I look like and who I am and when everyone else has said the same then why should I wish for hair. God has blessed me with great people in my life and has blessed me to take Alopecia on full force for 15 years and I'm still strong even after losing more after losing it before. To all that deal with struggles over this hair loss, take it from me: We all are beautiful and don't be afraid to show it. Embrace what the little things in life because hair is just hair, you as a person is here and that's the biggest blessing of them all. God Bless to all!