Hi to all my sisters. I have AU for 14years to this date and this is my story. When my daughter and only child was 2yrs old, I was going through a very difficult and emotional stressful period with her dad and life in general. I was not getting much sleep and still had to take care of our daughter and all the chores. The conditions and living arrangement was uncomfortable and I was very unhappy. During that time one morning, I was combing my hair as I normally do and noticed alot of hair more than usual on the comb and again the next day and by the third day when I woke up the bed had an unusual amount of hair and then I felt a smooth area at he back. I went to a doctor the next day and she said I had the Barber Virus that everyone was catching in the neighbourhood and I should shave off all the hair and she gave me an ointment to rub morning and night for 2 weeks and I did but the hair never grew back. So i called my brother who is a doctor and he contacted a skin specialist, they discussed my situation and the next day when I walked into the specialist office he started to laugh and said you look so cute with the bald head, no one will know you have Alopecia. I was surprised how casual he was about it and he went on to explain all about it becuse I've never heard or known anybody with it. I left his office calm and an automatic acceptance of my new look just stepped in, I just never got upset or panicked and maybe because my daughter's dad said he liked the look as well as the doctor. The next two weeks I lost my eyebrows and eyelashes and again just continued my life as normal, fill in the brow with pencil and eyeliner to make the lost of the eyelashes less noticeable. Everyone in my neighbourhood just think I got myself a new hairstyle and I get lots of compliments from males and females and have been asked if I am a model or a flight-attendant several times by strangers. I never wore a wig to this date, I wear caps just as normally when I had hair on some occassions. People almost never notice that I have no eyebrows or eyelashes because the art in which I put it on , it looks natural. I planned very soon though to tattooed the eyebrows which will save alot of time drawing in eyebrows and when I go to the beach or pool I don't have to worry about my eyebrows washing away. Even if it grows back which I still have hope, it will cover the tattoo. I believe with this disorder you can still look attractive by boosting other aspects of your physical features, like getting a nice toned or trim body, dress attractively, carry yourself confidently, laugh and talk and be normal. You get according to what you put out. You go about self-conscious, people will read your body language and think the worst, you laugh, talk and do as normal with confidence, people will notice beauty.
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