My mind has been on alopecia and what is the best way for us to live life to the fullest while living with the condition?

I am convinced that this is more an emotional battle than a physical one.

Our struggles seem to have more to do with acceptance, will I find a mate? Will kids at school laugh at me?  How do I tell my new date?  Will my spouse still be attracted to me? 

My thought is, if it was just physical then “slapping on” a new wig would…

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Adulting can be described as learning to navigate grown-up things and have responsibilities, such as finding full-time employment, paying bills, dating, and relationships, and more. Adulting can be filled with many ups and downs, let alone navigating it with alopecia.

i feel really alone, isolated & left out.

my almost 5 year relationship hurts me because I am always to hurt.

its so hard to let someone love you when you don't love yourself. 

i don't know what hurts more.

losing someone you love because of this

or 

loving someone who let you lose yourself.

So I have read the horror stories on here about what happened when someone had informed their significant other about their alopecia. Since 2008, I have been inflicted with AA and having really done much dating until recently. I have been wearing wigs and sometimes it gets rough and frustrating due to some of the constant pain wigs can create

Well now I find myself in a weird and unfamiliar place. I am currently dating a great guy who seems to be genuinely into me. He has questioned…

So for some time now my Mum has been asking me when am I going to be giving her grandchildren, this terrifies me... Like A LOT!

I want children one day but first I want to be settled down in a steady relationship but when you are twenty two with thinning hair your hardly attractive to most lads.

I know it's not about looks and what not but you try telling that to a lad you've been trying to get to know and then you eventually meet and he's opening question is 'what happened to…

If true connection is FREE...if happiness has no price...who can you really say never fails to make you smile without the possible COSTS? Maybe the one who makes you smile with a MUTUAL feeling is more worth the wait than the numbers of dates with no true connection. Hair or no hair, it can be too frustrating and take up too much mental stress if you are trying to convince someone who does not feel the same about you to stick around for a romance, be it at age 16 or 66. Let it grow…

I'm struggling with myself, it's my appearance and dating. Not sure what to do or how to act. Help!

Some of my most liberated sexual experiences have come from owning my beauty as a bald woman and partnering with people who appreciate how much I appreciate myself. Honestly, I think I learned to love myself more by the blessing of my current boyfriend who first offered to shave my head for me and then teach me how to do it myself. It's quite a special feeling for him to rub my head, especially when I'm sad…or when he's just adoring me.

I definitely don't let just anyone touch my…

I met the bald woman of my dreams on MySpace.com in the spring of 2007, and I can't tell you how grateful I am that she didn't summarily dismiss me as some creepy dude who simply had a bald fetish.

When I saw her photos on MySpace at the time, I thought she was as fine as they come and I let her know it. Yes, I knew she was bald due to alopecia areata because that was one of the first things her profile stated and she was bald in all her photos. However, it didn't matter one bit: She…

It will be four years in December since I shaved my head. Attempting to balance school, beauty standards, shame, and being in an emotionally and mentally abusive relationship, finding self-acceptance while having alopecia has not been easy. After one huge argument with the guy I was dating, I decided I just needed to be free. While the option should have been to break up with this guy forever, I decided to buy a pair of clippers and loose myself of the beautiful natural hair that I often…

Why do we have to feel like the world is going to end when we tell our date's in the begining about our disease. We have to go in looking at weeding out the bads ones, What is your opinion?

Recently I've been having some issues with my AU, after 4 years I still find myself upset and torn up (not all the time though). Believe me, I wouldn't change my trail and my struggle for anything, it's my story. My friends always tell me "alopecia doesn't define you" but in a way, I believe it does. Its made me who I am: strong, caring, compassionate, and very understanding. It's helped me look past a persons exterior and see into their heart. But unfortunately it hasn't exactly helped me…

How to handle dating do you tell guy 1st date you wear a wig?

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