If it were the opposite

[D.A.L.U.I.]

To be honest, as a young sly guy suffering from MPB, I don't see going sly as a reaction to being mainstream.  BUT: I'm not just sly, I feel 'bald' on the inside, too.
I didn't go sly because 'I like it', but I did it because the alternative is a horseshoe waiting to happen.

KDusk, you're young, but life isn't all dessert, you have to eat your vegetables too!  Your conclusion is on point, your genetic  disposition for cranial hair is a Bozo ring, a hairy toiletseat, a fringe.  That's just life--but to feel "suffering" "bald", that's just crying in your beer.  Get over it, get on with it--you've just lost some tonsorial tricks you would have given up as you matured anyway.  Move on, move up.  Don't look back, or you'll miss what's coming. 

[ElecEngineer]

I started shaving because I liked the look, so I doubt much would change.

[KDusk]

To be honest, as a young sly guy suffering from MPB, I don't see going sly as a reaction to being mainstream.  BUT: I'm not just sly, I feel 'bald' on the inside, too.
I didn't go sly because 'I like it', but I did it because the alternative is a horseshoe waiting to happen.

KDusk, you're young, but life isn't all dessert, you have to eat your vegetables too!  Your conclusion is on point, your genetic  disposition for cranial hair is a Bozo ring, a hairy toiletseat, a fringe.  That's just life--but to feel "suffering" "bald", that's just crying in your beer.  Get over it, get on with it--you've just lost some tonsorial tricks you would have given up as you matured anyway.  Move on, move up.  Don't look back, or you'll miss what's coming. 

Thanks for the heads up. I admit it's been a difficult journey so far, but it's also getting better. The first time I shaved it all off, the only thing I could think was: "Great, you now look like every other bald guy in the world." But that has changed. I've been very self-conscious in the past few weeks, examining myself and comparing to others. And I'm glad to have a great head shape (on which I have been complimented more than once), but I also have very small ears and quite a large forehead. But those are the things that make me what I am. The acceptance is here, now it's learning how to work with what I've got. So yes, we're moving up, but it's not something that'll happen overnight, and it shouldn't either. It's a journey and by my 25th birthday I'll have beaten my puberty AND my mid-lifecrisis. 

And I'll probably be the one everyone will be turning to for advice. I'm the first one of my friends to go bald, but my brother will be there too in a year or 2-3 and I just hope that by then I can help him through this phase. And other friends will probably be following. To be honest, it was difficult for me to have to do this just alone. There was no friend willing to take the leap, and so I'm just glad I found this place: always friendly and supporting others wherever they can.

[Krimson]

I'm really glad to have started this thread seeing that it has helped someone. To be honest with you KDUSK, you have done something that i don't think i could have done at your age. Being 49,  i now have the confidence and backgroud to go sly and don't care what people think, even though i was 75% bald, which was even then  a massive decision when i decided to go "all the way". Don't let anybody tell you that a "bozo or toilet seat" or any other demeaning idioms, is ridiculous ,it is not, it is called MPB and it is not a desease, it is a condition, and some men wear it well (look at TERRY BRADSHAW) It is YOUR choice. This is not a HMC mentality site. You have to live with it, even though it can grow back. To go sly at your age , i don't think i could have done it, more power to you my friend  

[Sir Harry]

The only thing I miss about hair is being able to shave designs into my head (dice, thunderbolts, spider webs, etc). It was like getting a tattoo without the "permanency" meaning it would always grow back... But if it were the opposite, I don't know...I'm going to have to think long and hard about it.....Nah, I think I still would stay bald

[Blitzed]

SLY Till I die.