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Telling people
Well, since I got my wig I've become more open with AA, I accept it more and I don't really care what people think of it, everyone I've told it reacted well to it.
Now that I know that I thought it was time to tell my class about it. So last Thursday we had gymnastics. I told the teacher (who's also my mentor guy, do he already knew about everything) and he put the class together on the bench.
He told them that we thought we could trust them and hoped that they wouldn't react in a stupid way but showed some empaty. So there I stood, right in front of all of my classmates. I was kind of nervous and was shaking a little bit. I thought that was kind of obvious, since I don't find it too easy to tell it to so many people at once.
I told them I have a sort of sickness/disease (don't really know how to say it in English) that makes me lose my hair and that I was wearing a wig for a week now. Everyone was staring at me and I asked if anyone has any questions. No one did. Then we went to the dressing rooms and some guys told me they were sorry for me. They all seemed to understand, which was sort of comforting.
I'm glad I told them.
I now am more open to it and don't mind it as much as I did before. Even a lot more than a month or so ago, it's gone pretty fast luckily.
Kind of the same happened today; I do a sport which is called Jeet Kune Do (-->Bruce Lee), it's a martial art which has basically the best of all martial arts combined. Today we started with some punching and kicking, which was allright. But then we moved on to some ground moves. That involved a lot of head moving and strangling. Since I was wearing my wig that wasn't too convienient. I told my trainer I was wearing a wig and he told me that was allright and if anyone said anything wrong about it, he would take care of them. And you don't want to be messing with him, hehe.
So when we were doing those ground moves my wig was really annoying me, it was moving and almost fell off of my head. So then I had it and just took it off. Nobody seemed to have really noticed it, or pretended they didn't notice, anyway, I didn't care.
So it was kind of a strange week, but I managed it well even if I say so myself.
My AA is getting worse though and I think it might evolve to AT/AU, since I noticed some bald spots on my arms/legs and now a tiny one in my eyebrow too. That kind of sucks. But there's nothing I can do to make it grow back permanently so I'm just gonna have my peace with it, and maybe shave my head next week!
Now that I know that I thought it was time to tell my class about it. So last Thursday we had gymnastics. I told the teacher (who's also my mentor guy, do he already knew about everything) and he put the class together on the bench.
He told them that we thought we could trust them and hoped that they wouldn't react in a stupid way but showed some empaty. So there I stood, right in front of all of my classmates. I was kind of nervous and was shaking a little bit. I thought that was kind of obvious, since I don't find it too easy to tell it to so many people at once.
I told them I have a sort of sickness/disease (don't really know how to say it in English) that makes me lose my hair and that I was wearing a wig for a week now. Everyone was staring at me and I asked if anyone has any questions. No one did. Then we went to the dressing rooms and some guys told me they were sorry for me. They all seemed to understand, which was sort of comforting.
I'm glad I told them.
I now am more open to it and don't mind it as much as I did before. Even a lot more than a month or so ago, it's gone pretty fast luckily.
Kind of the same happened today; I do a sport which is called Jeet Kune Do (-->Bruce Lee), it's a martial art which has basically the best of all martial arts combined. Today we started with some punching and kicking, which was allright. But then we moved on to some ground moves. That involved a lot of head moving and strangling. Since I was wearing my wig that wasn't too convienient. I told my trainer I was wearing a wig and he told me that was allright and if anyone said anything wrong about it, he would take care of them. And you don't want to be messing with him, hehe.
So when we were doing those ground moves my wig was really annoying me, it was moving and almost fell off of my head. So then I had it and just took it off. Nobody seemed to have really noticed it, or pretended they didn't notice, anyway, I didn't care.
So it was kind of a strange week, but I managed it well even if I say so myself.
My AA is getting worse though and I think it might evolve to AT/AU, since I noticed some bald spots on my arms/legs and now a tiny one in my eyebrow too. That kind of sucks. But there's nothing I can do to make it grow back permanently so I'm just gonna have my peace with it, and maybe shave my head next week!
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Comment by JeffreySF on December 5, 2009 at 8:18pm
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Hang in there Lionel! You're doing great!
jeffrey
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Comment by Joy on December 5, 2009 at 9:29pm
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Your story was inspirational!! i think you were very brave!!...good for you. Acceptance is great!!!
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Comment by Georgie on December 5, 2009 at 11:50pm
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Wow, again, I have to say that I am amazed by the network of support around you. It's wonderful and you are so lucky to be surrounded by people who genuinely care about you. Awesome.
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Comment by Lionel on December 6, 2009 at 5:56am
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Thank you all! You too are my support!
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Comment by Joshua on December 6, 2009 at 8:44pm
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Lionel, its great to hear that you're dealing and coping so well and confidently! Keep up the good job and continue to be a star at what you're doing!
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Comment by Susan - Jon's Mum on December 7, 2009 at 5:55am
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Good on you Lionel. You have a wonderful attitude. Keep it up. Your doing great. I think there can be nothing better than being at peace with yourself. :-)
Susan
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Comment by Natalie on December 7, 2009 at 11:59am
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Wow- you are so brave! I certainly was not that brave when I was in high school. You are totally doing the right thing by being open about it; people fear what they don't know, so the more you educate people about alopecia, the more they will accept it and see your inner strength. Keep up the awesome attitude!
P.S. And I know what a bummer it is to lose your eyebrows/eyelashes. I just lost all of my eyebrows recently and don't have any left lashes anymore.....but I suppose there are plenty of worse things in the world, so I try to smile and not let it get me down :)
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Comment by christine armstrong on December 7, 2009 at 4:27pm
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good luck lionel...u have guts...i only found out recently that when i was at school and losing mine that a lot of people thought i had cancer..take care and again good luck..you are amazing..xx
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