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Things that have happened to me....can you relate?
Many years ago I worked in a retail clothing store that was located in downtown Indianapolis. I had been going without a scarf or hat for awhile and I felt perfectly comfortable walking about the mall. Most of the other managers and employees in the mall were used to me and I never really had any feelings of people staring. One day I was headed down to see a friend of mine who did makeup in a major department store, she was going to do my eyebrows for me. I was in the department store riding the escalator down when I noticed a young mother with her toddler son. She was pointing right at me and trying to get her son to look at me. I remember thinking "wow, what a great example you are setting for you son right now!" (being sarcastic!) Let's teach your son to judge people before he can barely form a sentence. I am never surprised by how insensitive and mean humans can be. In the same breath I am always surprised by how caring and supportive humans can also be...is that weird? Like I said that was a long time ago, just a story from the past.....I have a million of them:)
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Comment by Mark S. Hansen on August 22, 2009 at 4:50pm
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I am 53 years old and I have had this condition for over 40 years starting in junior high school, where on a few occassions, I had what was left of my hair, at times, ripped out of my head by bullies. I have not had any hair anywhere at all since I was about 14. My parents bought me my first wig when I was 15 which really did not help my social life much at all. And nevertheless, I wore won until about 5 years ago when I took it off a threw it away. But regardless of how old I get and how much I grow up, that does not mean that the rest of the world grows up with me. And ignorance is not confined to any age group. About 10 years ago when I was in my 40's, on a summer day I was walking to a convienience store while I was wearing a tank top and shorts and a cap. I have alopecia totalis, no body hair at all. And group of 16-18 year olds drove by me and yelled, "fagat," out the window. I was livid and yelled back at them as they we driving out of the parking lot, challenging them to a get out and fight. One of them looked out the car window and thought I must have been nuts, and must have said to the others "let's get out of here this guys crazy." A similar incident happed to me a few months before when some college kids made a comment about me from a apartment balcony, such as "wow is that a lady of a guy." Ignorance is something that someone needs to find a cure for but I won't hold my breath for that.
Mark Hansen thehansen@yahoo.com
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Comment by alyssa on August 22, 2009 at 9:03pm
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i am 17 years old and i am too confortable walking around without a scarf or anything on my head (i have AU). well about a month ago i went to florida on vacation. i was walking by the pool side in my bathing suit looking for my family to bring them some towels. well as i was walking there was a a man maybe in his 40s saying "look at the fat bald girl walking over there" started laughing, making a full seen. well little did he know, my dad was walking behind him so of course my dad said something to him and the man says "well maybe you should get the bald girl a wig". i dad broke out, started yelling and screaming, well thats not the point, the man was at the pool with his two little girls, one who must have been about a year old and another which might have been in grammar school, his wife and probably, his brother- just another man.
like i do always get people saying things to me especially in school, but i never got a grown man that was so rude. my mom said to him that he better hope that nothing ever happens to his daughters, because what he said was totally wrong, thought what he said was funny and didn't even say sorry for what he did.
he got kicked out the hotel for that.
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mark... please dont mind i was reading what you was saying
alopecia totalis is no hair on your head
alopecia univeralis (which is what i have) is no body hair
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I am 37 years old and I started losing my hair really bad about three years ago. Two years ago I decided to start wearing a wig, well a couple months later my mother in law was diagnosed with lung cancer and was going through treatments and eventually started losing her hair. She had called me up one day and had told me that she was thinking about getting a wig. I told her that I would go with her and shop for a wig. We found a real preety one for her and we came home and was showing my sister in law. She had a fit and said her mom didn't need a wig and that she could wear a scarf. Well last may, my mother in law passed away and after the funeral we had all gone back to the house and my father in law was going through some of her stuff and noticed her wig laying on the dresser and said "what should we do with this?" and my sister in law turned around and said in front of everybody "Give it to Annette, She's the wig freak!" That had to have been my lowest moment. I had never been so hurt, But at that moment I realized how sorry I felt for someone so shallow. That was a learning experience for me and I realized that I would rather have no hair and wear a wig then to be envious of someone who had hair and had no heart.
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