Larry Barbee
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  • Concord, NC
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I'm a 49 year old Christian single man with androgenetic alopecia. I have written articles on self esteem and alopecia seen through my Faith. I like to help people get where they want to be when challenged by something like alopecia.
I have some health issues which keeps me from getting out and about like I would want to, so I keep in touch with most of my friends through email. So please feel free to email me .
When I'm healthier I like to go scuba diving. I'm a published writer and I love good books and goor conversation.
Both of my parents are alive and in basically good health. My 82 y/o Dad still flies his airplane. I have a younger sister who teaches pre-school. And then there is my "boy", a Boston terrier who Dad calls "my four legged grandson".
Do you have alopecia?
Male pattern baldness
Are you age 18 or older?
Yes - I am 18 or older
Your Website (Leave blank if you don't have one):
http://www.alopeciaworld.com

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Alone in Alopecia World

Posted on February 1, 2013 at 2:56pm 3 Comments

I've never "blogged" before so be patient as I must learn as I go.

I feel like I'm an outsider in Alopecia World, which saddens me because I thought here was a place where I'd find people who would be more accepting and understanding than anywhere else. Please don't misunderstand; I'm not making accusations, nor am I criticising anyone in here. I am "different" from most people with or without alopecia. I've always marched to the beat of another drum, not concerned with what others…

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At 12:00am on February 17, 2013, CaliforniaGirl said…

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Whoo hoo! You're back on AW, Larry!! Where have you been hiding? ha ha I haven't seen you around here in ages! How's your boy, Sam? :)

Hope you're doing well!

At 11:10pm on February 4, 2013, Theresa said…
Larry...contact your state department of education vocational rehabilitation department for all assistance needed if you qualify. I wonder from you: did you self publish a book or did you get a publisher to take your written work on? I am interested in writing a book so I'm wonderiing. So, this website allows people with male pattern baldness as members? I'm surprised.
At 8:07pm on January 30, 2013, Laura Taylor said…

Hi Larry. I have tried to find a website that offered that information but have been unsuccessful. If you find one I would appreciate the information!

At 6:28pm on January 26, 2013, Dame said…

Hi Larry!
No worries I understand. I do hope that we can chat again soon (maybe your computer will corporate) and I enjoyed meeting you!

Larisa

At 11:49pm on April 11, 2011, Larry Barbee said…
Thank you, Liselle, for your kin words.
God bless,
Larry
At 5:44pm on April 11, 2011, liselle said…
yes," I don't see ugly people either".... wow Larry, you write so well.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading all that. You definitely have talent. That was spoken right from the heart!
Thanks for all your time in posting that.
regards
liselle
At 9:41pm on April 4, 2011, Larry Barbee said…
Special Wardrobe part 4 last
After we finished moving my stuff, I treated Susan and Denise to a “fashion Show” complete with bad jokes and funny stories about my experiences. When it was time for Susan to go, she kissed my nude scalp, cooed that she thought I looked cute, and said that she believed that bald is beautiful. I thanked her and told her I thought she was beautiful, too. She grimaced and said that she was hardly beautiful considering that she was this, that and the other thing. I took exception to her self deprecating remarks and tried to put into perspective what I have written in this article.
“Having hair does not make one beautiful, nor is it true that bald is beautiful in and of its self. Being bald doesn’t make a person beautiful, Susan, but a person can make baldness beautiful. The same, perhaps, can also be said for this, that and the other thing.”
At 9:40pm on April 4, 2011, Larry Barbee said…
Special Wardrobe part 3
The first wig I got was a present from someone who knew I wanted one but couldn’t quite get the nerve to get it myself. I think that I would have eventually but this speeded things up for me. The wig was christened “Herman” by my friend Holley and became the first for many more to come. The support Holley provided cannot be praised enough. She genuinely liked what I was trying to do and did everything possible to help me create my lifestyle and get all I could out of it. She encouraged me not to wear hats or wigs in public after I began to keep my head clean shaven because she knew that I really wanted to. She and many others have made my balding experience one of the great blessings in my life.
I love being bald and feel special and attractive even more than I did before my hair fell out. Rarely do I use the term “hair loss” because I don’t like the connotation that I have “lost” something. I feel that my beauty was changed and not lost when I went bald. I will probably be self conscious of being bald for the rest of my life, or as long as bald is perceived as unusual. The option is whether or not to feel good or bad, attractive or unattractive because of it.
At 9:38pm on April 4, 2011, Larry Barbee said…
Special Wardrobe part 2
The way we feel about the way we look is important. Physical beauty is one of the cornerstones of self esteem and it is one of the most vulnerable. This is an article about how I have dealt with this subject in one area and I hope that it will inspire the reader to find solutions to their own threats to self esteem.
I have been fortunate in that my hair loss experience was not burdensome or a source of great anxiety. The reason for this is simple -- I did not see baldness as a disfigurement in others so I did not see it as such for me when I went bald.
I am a Christian; as such, I strive to see people the way God does. I don’t see “ugly” people. The physical body is much too frail to be a vessel in which a person’s beauty and worth can be housed. Even those who are deemed to be “beautiful people” will be stripped of their attributes through age, disease or accidents. So much of what society labels as beautiful is not even intrinsic; a cursory examination of history and other cultures will show the great diversity and transitory nature of so called Perfect Beauty. The diversity of beauty in human beings is staggering if we are receptive to developing an appreciation of it.
Most bald headed men and women I knew or had ever seen never struck me as disfigured or ugly. I believed that they possessed beauty in ways that were different from someone else; indeed, those bald people who incorporated their baldness into their self image in an open and positive way seemed even more attractive and even exotic in their beauty.
It is hard to believe in one’s beauty especially if it flies in the face of conventional standards. It can be done and I have had some success at doing so. It does help if there are people in your life that will support you and believe in your beauty, too.
At 9:35pm on April 4, 2011, Larry Barbee said…
Special Wardrobe part 1
A Special Wardrobe
“What’s in here?” Susan asked. We were shifting some of my belongings and among them was a storage box with the word “Herman” scrawled across the top.
“Take a peek,” Denise advised with a twinkle in her eye.
“Eek! There’s something furry in there!” Susan screamed as she dropped the box.
As Denise laughed, I picked up the box and with mock indignation over the word, “furry,” and explained to Susan that she had picked up my wig box.
“But these wigs are all different colors and styles, Larry, are they all yours?”
Susan had asked the question most people ask fairly soon after a relationship is formed.
“I’m totally bald and my lifestyle includes wearing wigs on those days I feel like being a “haired” person. I adore my bald head and spend time making it look good and feel nice. I like hair too, and with wigs I can enjoy a variety of looks in different hair styles and colors.
It is possible to be both bald and “haired,” and enjoy being both.”
“I think that’s wonderful!” Susan exclaimed with a look of sincere delight and approval.
 
 
 

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