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Permalink Reply by mabaker on October 5, 2011 at 2:37pm

Thank you xx

Permalink Reply by Cheryl, Co-founder on October 5, 2011 at 3:08pm

Oops! I meant to say "What I once hid, has now become a guidance for my life. ;)

Permalink Reply by Mary on October 5, 2011 at 3:20pm

I've had so many experiences like this, Cheryl! I've come to see my bald head as part of what makes me unique and it leads to connections I wouldn't have otherwise (including this wonderful AW community!)

Permalink Reply by Cheryl, Co-founder on October 6, 2011 at 2:32am

Mary, I agree. People all over the world know who you are because of International Alopecia Day. You have been the reason, why many have walked out of the house for the first time without a headcovering. In fact the woman that met with us for International Alopecia Day, came in with a wig and within a few minutes took it off for the first time in public. Powerful.

Mind you she placed it on the table, I think the waitress had no idea what to do! LOL!

Permalink Reply by carol on October 5, 2011 at 7:48pm

I met a man on my walk in Long Beach and he has alopecia and was telling me bald men also had it hard and now its soooooooo normal to see bald men, Hoping the same for us soon. Always comforting to run into other persons with alopecia

Permalink Reply by Terri on October 5, 2011 at 11:41pm

This a fabulous post. I went to my first ever support group meeting and there I was the only one that walked in bald. There was a 10 year old girl there that was in awe and she expressed to her mom how great it was to see me being bald and comfortable.

Permalink Reply by Cheryl, Co-founder on October 6, 2011 at 2:28am

Terri! That is what I am talking about. You being you, encouraged another.

Permalink Reply by Cheryl, Co-founder on October 6, 2011 at 2:27am

We have no clue what effect we have on others. Some we may hear about and other we may never know about. The woman who inspired me to eventually get to the place I am today I don't even know her name. All I know is that I saw her, a black bald woman with presence walk into a room at a NAAF conference close to 20 years ago and I was in total awe. I never spoke to her, never got her name and to this day she has no idea what affect she had on me. But when I left that conference I knew that that was where I wanted to go. Every time we walk out of the door bald, we open the opportunity to encouraging another. Not with some great talent, or eloquent words, just the fact that we walked out the door.

Permalink Reply by PJ on October 7, 2011 at 7:19pm

I had a sister come up to me in church and wispered in my ear saying..that I don't know how much I am sending a message cause a lot of woman in the church are going through losing their hair due to cancer or just loosing. She said that she commended me and that I was so very bold and fierce. Yes, we are beacons to a lot of woman and I am loving myself as me,,but now have to get use to the coldness of the weather...smile...I am buying some hats....another new Look! God bless you all...let's keep in touch..iron sharpens iron.