#alopecia

Hey i love your blog and just wanted to say i really appreciate what you are doing as someone with a sister condition of alopecia universalis. I feel like it's almost reverse for us where they think vitiligo looks cool and interesting and adds it to their characters to make them unique. They don't make characters with alopecia areata, let alone fully bald characters because they look less attractive and weird. It's ironic because i have never seen a characters with BOTH alopecia areata AND vitiligo despite both conditions being extremely comorbid. Both conditions can really fuck with your sense of self, confidence, and mental health despite being seen as "solely cosmetic" conditions. IDK i just wanted to say i love what you are doing and to also reach out to your audience and say that please create more characters with alopecia including those of us with universalis and totalis. If you are feel especially brave make a character with vitiligo and alopecia areata. You'd make alot of people feel seen.

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I don't know if this counts, but the vitriolic hatred people have for balding people is so terrible, especially balding fems. Everybody acts as though balding and having thin hair (and I mean see-through thin) is the worst thing ever. People act as though balding is only something that can take away from attraction (you looks so beautiful despite it) and people are being generous by being attracted to people with hair loss. I've quite literally never seen any positivity for balding people, but I've seen plenty of jokes about it (using bald as an insult, "I hate having thin hair" trend, hell even just Google bald meme ) and it sucks because I've never seen any character with alopecia, I can't even find one anywhere. I'll even see conversations about the expectation for feminine people to shave and then they'll say that expecting someone to be hairless is pedophilic?? And I see no pushback on the idea that my body is pedophilic and people are gross for even being attracted to me. We're not included in anything and when we are it's always in a way to fit beauty standards and the patriarchy's comfort (fully bald/hairless or minor hair loss (which can be hidden or considered "stylish"/fits in with the styles of people not experiencing hair loss) instead of extreme hair loss with longer thinning see-through hair and being comfortable in that). I'm so sick of being a joke always, this shit kills people and everybody needs to full out stop making these "jokes." (Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this)