How I "broke through" the fear of going out bald: I just got angry about it, basically. I have freckles, and kept comparing hiding my bare scalp because others didn't like looking at it to hiding my face because others did not like my freckles. It just felt wrong for me to bend to others' will that way, to stifle my own happiness and FREEDOM for others' ...psychological comfort? I decided that they would just have to be uncomfortable - they would also have to get over it. Besides, their discomfort stemmed from the judgmental - and irrational - position that women are SUPPOSED (supposedly) to have hair. Obviously God did not agree or He would not have taken mine away. It was not a case of me TRYING to make others uncomfortable, but of me NEEDING to be myself - for myself - and for my own spirit to be unencumbered by headcoverings. I came to the conclusion that I would not wear a mask to hide my freckles nor would I wear a headcovering to hide my scalp. A bare scalp is not indecent exposure no matter how much society tries to imply that it is.