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Thanatophobia

- runs hand across scalp -
- hand is now littered with hairs -
Me: Have I really been masturbating that much?
Finally caved and shaved my entire head
Losing hair wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t make my scalp ache
We have got to stop acting like receding hairlines, losing hair, having thin hair, and balding are awful terrible things
It happens! And no one should have to be terrified of it for whatever reason!!
Stop glorifying hair and start embracing bald(ing) heads
At this point, the patches of hair that are still thick are the areas that look like they shouldn’t be on my head
“Bald is beautiful”
Okay, but what about patchy?
Why, when I told my doctor that I had come to terms with my alopecia areata and didn’t want to treat my visible hair loss, did she give me a recommendation for a hair growth serum anyway?
Patchy is beautiful
The patterns it creates, unique to every person
The thicker spots that turn to soft, thin hairs as you run your hand across your scalp
The halo when you’re backlit, speckled like light filtering through tree leaves
Beautiful.
Finally got to order wigs!!!
I’m so excited!!!
Taking a wig off is like taking a bra off, I have found
And now I feel the ghost of having long hair when I turn my head
This post is also very much for people (like myself) whose alopecia areata doesn’t just affect them from the neck up, by the way.
Your body is a work of art.
Patchy body hair is beautiful
“Bald is beautiful”
Okay, but what about patchy?
Why, when I told my doctor that I had come to terms with my alopecia areata and didn’t want to treat my visible hair loss, did she give me a recommendation for a hair growth serum anyway?
Patchy is beautiful
The patterns it creates, unique to every person
The thicker spots that turn to soft, thin hairs as you run your hand across your scalp
The halo when you’re backlit, speckled like light filtering through tree leaves
Beautiful.
hey actually can we stop treating hair loss or absence in media like it’s either a huge joke or a horrible tragedy? please? because i’m getting really sick of hairlessness (whether partial or total) constantly being depicted like it’s unnatural and strange—especially when it comes to afab or feminine people, but also just in general! and this applies to short hair, too, or generally ‘weird’ haircuts, by the way.
stop using a person’s hair (or lack thereof) as the butt of your jokes or the basis of your tragedy. until mainstream media starts accurately and explicitly depicting people with conditions like alopecia (something which should be normalized but has been made shameful by the standards media and society perpetuates), it should not and does not have the right to decide the narrative of their lives.
With all the love we give our hairy folks can we give the same love to our non hairy folk as well
Not in a “love the people who fit the societal norm” way just a “love the people who are losing hair.” Way
love the people who are balding
love the people who are bald
love the people who are loosing hair due to aging
love the people who are loosing hair due to medical reasons
love the people who can’t grow hair.
love the people who stop growing hair.
Should body hair be normalized? Yes of course. Body hair is a “normal” part of being human. But not all humans are “normal”. Recognize that there are disabled people who don’t have body hair or maybe any hair. Look at them and appreciate them. Love them just the same.
legitimately begging you guys to stop using bald as your ‘none of the above’ answer (and I do not want to hear about ‘what if I’m doing a hairstyle quiz?’ you KNOW that’s not what I’m talking about here) bc I don’t think anyone realizes that like. at best in context it’s taken as a joke about default avatars or whatever. at worst, you’re playing into a long history of just being a fucking asshole.
baldness is just a trait its not a joke. I made a post on this a while ago but no one’s hair should be a joke unless the person who styled it intends for it to be. you think of being balding/bald specifically as being funny because popular media has convinced you it is so no one gets bothered when they make fun of bald people. But despite popular belief, hair is generally not a fashion trend, it’s a trait, and the thing is that baldness (like many hair types) is not always a choice. some people chose to be bald. a lot of people do not. people become bald for various reasons, but specifically stuff like various kinds of alopecia or cancer treatment or tension baldness can be incredibly traumatic experiences that are only added to when people treat their hair loss as a funny joke.
please think about it. what is actually funny about other people’s baldness. is there any kind of humor about it which isn’t punching down? because if there isn’t, the joke isn’t funny, it’s just mean.
what happened to vanilla extract? what happened to just saying ‘none of the above’? can we please be normal about balding/bald people for once